Recaps

Ye Lin fought the black-robed old man’s powerful clone in Heavenly Capital City and shattered his golden hand seal with his strongest sword strike. The old man prepared to counterattack, but a Phoenix suddenly appeared behind him and flew in at close range.

• The black-robed old man appeared in Heavenly Capital City and challenged Ye Lin, who recognized that he was only a clone.
• Ye Lin unleashed his strongest attack, combining his Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor, Purgatory Ice Flame, and nine phantom Great Suns.
• The old man raised a golden hand seal, but Ye Lin’s Sword Qi cracked and shattered it before both attacks dispersed.
• The old man assumed Ye Lin had nearly exhausted his immortal power and prepared to kill him.
• A Phoenix suddenly flew up behind the old man, leaving him no chance to dodge.

Ye Lin defeated the eighth-layer Golden Immortal and forced everyone out of Heavenly Capital City, leaving no one in the Northern Frontier willing to oppose him. Yuan Chu celebrated the fall of the Seven Kings and planned to use the region’s resources to reach the ninth layer of the Golden Immortal Realm and unify the Northern Frontier.

• Phoenix struck the old man with Purgatory Ice Flame, burning him to ashes as he threatened Blood Slaughter.
• Ye Lin drained the Seven Kings’ corpses with the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword and ordered the surrounding cultivators to flee.
• The cultivators fled Heavenly Capital City, and Ye Lin removed the lightning curtain and left without being challenged.
• Jian Changfeng chased after Ye Lin, hoping to befriend him.
• Yuan Chu celebrated being the only surviving one of the Nine Kings and planned to claim the Northern Frontier and advance to the ninth layer of the Golden Immortal Realm.

Ye Lin continued toward the East Sea Dragon Clan to repay his debt after obtaining the Seven-Colored Lotus, while Jian Changfeng invited him to a grand gathering in five years. He reached Sea-Suppressing City and found the sea clans had withdrawn, leaving him to conclude that Crimson Province had negotiated their retreat at a heavy cost.

• Jian Changfeng caught up with Ye Lin, gave him a Jade Talisman, and invited him to the Crimson Province grand gathering at the Heavenly Sword Sect in five years.
• Ye Lin accepted the Jade Talisman and asked where the gathering would take place before continuing toward the East Sea.
• Ye Lin’s battle against seven kings shattered the Nine Ancient Clans’ prestige, and factions across the Northern Frontier began challenging their power.
• Ye Lin arrived at Sea-Suppressing City and saw that the sea clans surrounding it had disappeared.
• Ye Lin inferred that Crimson Province and the sea clans had negotiated, and that Crimson Province had paid heavily to secure their withdrawal.

Ye Lin delivered the Seven-Colored Lotus to Ao Guang and asked him to spare the intelligent treasure, who was Yun Xi. After seeing Ao Guang’s terrifying panel and learning that his destiny ended when the Heavenly Dao killed him, Ye Lin resolved to avoid provoking him and returned to the Myriad Demon Wasteland to consider his Bloodthirsty Demon Sword’s power.

• Ye Lin gave Ao Guang the Seven-Colored Lotus and asked him to spare its life because it was Yun Xi.
• Ao Guang agreed to use only a small portion of the lotus for pills and release it into the Crimson Wasteland afterward.
• Ao Guang warned Ye Lin that the passage between the Three Realms would open wide in a hundred years and bring a great opportunity amid devastation.
• Ye Lin read Ao Guang’s panel, saw his powerful Fate Traits and fatal destiny, and decided to avoid becoming his enemy.
• Ye Lin returned to the Myriad Demon Wasteland and wondered whether his Bloodthirsty Demon Sword could kill a sixth-layer Golden Immortal with one strike.

Ye Lin noticed Shangguan Wanyu had reached the fifth level of the Golden Immortal realm and wondered what opportunity had caused her rapid advancement. He returned to his secluded cultivation site and began refining the Everlasting Fruit, as his aura rose toward the sixth level.

• Ye Lin saw Shangguan Wanyu pass by and discovered through his panel that she had reached the fifth level of the Golden Immortal realm.
• Ye Lin concluded that Shangguan Wanyu must have encountered a powerful opportunity and stopped dwelling on her sudden advancement.
• Ye Lin returned to his secluded cultivation site, where Luo Yao was still asleep.
• Ye Lin swallowed the Everlasting Fruit and began refining its immense energy.
• Ye Lin guided the fruit’s energy through his body and Primordial Spirit as his aura gradually approached the sixth level of the Golden Immortal realm.

After five years of seclusion, Ye Lin emerged at the fifth layer of the Golden Immortal realm and led his companions toward the Heavenly Sword Sect’s gathering of Crimson Wasteland prodigies. A powerful Devil Race creature learned of the event and prepared to join it.

• Ye Lin finished refining the Everlasting Fruit during five years of seclusion, reaching the fifth layer of the Golden Immortal realm.
• Ye Lin reunited with Luo Yao and emerged from the desert as the others came out of seclusion.
• Ye Lin invited his companions to attend the Crimson Wasteland gathering, and Wang Xiaoyun and Zhang Wusheng agreed.
• Ye Lin and his companions set off for the Heavenly Sword Sect as prodigies from across the Crimson Wasteland headed there too.
• A powerful creature in a dark temple learned of the gathering and sent black mist spreading across the land.

The Heavenly Sword Sect hosted a gathering for the Crimson Wasteland’s younger talents, and Jian Changfeng welcomed the arriving guests. The gathering was interrupted by a mass of demonic qi whose unseen source insulted the sect and claimed Yun Xuan was dead.

• The Heavenly Sword Sect opened its Mortal World Sword Arena to prominent young talents arriving from across the Crimson Wasteland.
• Jian Changfeng welcomed Yuan Feng and many other guests to the central island.
• Dark clouds filled the sky with overwhelming demonic qi as Jian Changfeng’s junior brothers looked on in fear.
• Jian Changfeng rose to confront the unseen intruder and asked them to reveal themselves.
• An unknown voice mocked the Heavenly Sword Sect and claimed Yun Xuan had died.

Mo Cang of the Ten Thousand Demon Sect arrived at the Heavenly Sword Sect and demanded to take part in its genius gathering, using the political consequences of refusal to corner Jian Changfeng. The chapter ended with Jian Changfeng weighing whether to admit him.

• Jian Changfeng summoned a purple Long Sword and warned the stranger to reveal his identity or face his sword.
• Mo Cang appeared amid blood-red lightning and identified himself as a member of the Ten Thousand Demon Sect.
• Jian Changfeng questioned why Mo Cang had trespassed, concerned that the demons' arrival violated the agreement between the Earth God Realm and the Demon-Monster Realm.
• Mo Cang argued that the Ten Thousand Demon Sect was in the Land of Rakshasa beneath Crimson Wasteland, so he qualified for the genius gathering.
• Mo Cang warned that refusing him would slight the Demon-Monster Realm and risk conflict, leaving Jian Changfeng caught between admitting him and rejecting him.

Jian Changfeng refused to let Mo Cang, a visitor from the Demon-Monster Realm, enter the Heavenly Sword Sect, fearing his arrival would open the door to more outsiders. Mo Cang challenged Jian Changfeng’s confidence and left, while the loosened passage seal remained a danger for the sect to address.

• Jian Changfeng told Mo Cang to leave Crimson Wasteland because he came from the Demon-Monster Realm.
• Jian Changfeng recalled that the passage seal had loosened and planned to suppress it after the grand gathering.
• Mo Cang invoked Yun Xuan’s courage, unsettling Jian Changfeng by suggesting Yun Xuan would have welcomed him.
• Jian Changfeng threatened to kill Mo Cang if he did not leave, then defended the Heavenly Sword Sect’s gates.
• Mo Cang accused Jian Changfeng of being afraid and left without entering the sect.

Mo Cang left Jian Changfeng and encountered Ye Lin and his companions on their way to the Heavenly Sword Sect. He asked them to deliver a gift to the sect’s master, leaving them to face his suspicious request.

• Jian Changfeng watched Mo Cang disappear and remained wary, while Jian Unrivaled monitored arrivals and planned to reinforce the passage seal after the matter was over.
• Mo Cang traveled through the sky, surrounded by dense demonic qi, and wondered how people from the Third Region had reached the Second Region.
• Ye Lin and his companions noticed Mo Cang’s demonic qi and decided to go around him, but he blocked their path.
• Mo Cang asked whether the group was going to the Heavenly Sword Sect’s grand gathering, then offered Ye Lin a black box to deliver to the sect’s master.

Ye Lin refused Mo Cang’s request to help deliver a lavish gift to the Heavenly Sword Sect, suspecting the Demon-Monster Realm cultivator had bad intentions. Ye Lin then arrived at the sect with his companions and met Jian Changfeng, who assessed the group and was puzzled by Bao Xiaotou and Wang Tian.

• Ye Lin rejected Mo Cang’s request to help present a gift to the Heavenly Sword Sect and told him to leave.
• Mo Cang departed, and Ye Lin dismissed Bao Xiaotou’s concerns before continuing toward the sect.
• Ye Lin and Bao Xiaotou examined the Heavenly Sword Sect’s grand residence and its formation of seventy-two small islands.
• Ye Lin met Jian Changfeng, and his companions introduced themselves to the Heavenly Sword Sect cultivator.
• Jian Changfeng assessed Ye Lin’s companions and found Bao Xiaotou and Wang Tian’s cultivation and auras unexpectedly unimpressive.

Jian Changfeng questioned why Brother Blood Slaughter was traveling with the ordinary child Luo Yao, then learned from Ye Lin that Mo Cang had tried to deliver a black box to the Heavenly Sword Sect. Suspecting a plot by the Demon-Monster Realm, Jian Changfeng ordered the sect’s disciples to guard the grounds and kill any demonic cultivators they found.

• Jian Changfeng secretly examined Luo Yao with his divine sense and found her to be an ordinary child with no cultivation.
• Jian Changfeng told Ye Lin he was guarding the Heavenly Sword Sect because a Demon-Monster Realm prodigy had been turned away.
• Ye Lin told Jian Changfeng that Mo Cang had asked him to deliver a black box to the sect’s Sect Master, but he had refused.
• Jian Changfeng ordered the Heavenly Sword Sect’s available disciples to guard every area and kill any demonic cultivators they discovered.

Jian Changfeng escorted Ye Lin and his companions into the Heavenly Sword Sect, hoping to prevent friction between the visiting Second Region cultivators and the Crimson Wasteland geniuses inside. Bao Xiaotou noticed Jian Changfeng’s reaction and felt looked down upon, while Wang Tian told him not to care.

• Jian Changfeng offered to personally lead Ye Lin and his companions inside after arranging for Fellow Daoist Blood Slaughter to be taken in.
• Ye Lin initially said they could enter on their own, but Jian Changfeng insisted and explained that geniuses from across the Crimson Wasteland were gathered inside.
• Jian Changfeng privately worried that the regional grudges and pride of the young cultivators could lead to a fight if he left them alone.
• As the group continued onward, Bao Xiaotou told Wang Tian that he felt Jian Changfeng had looked down on them.
• Wang Tian advised Bao Xiaotou to ignore the contempt, saying it would not harm him.

Jian Changfeng brought Ye Lin and his companions to the Heavenly Sword Sect’s Lotus Pool and introduced them as Blood Slaughter’s friends. A woman named Yu'er questioned why outsiders were attending the Crimson Wasteland Grand Gathering, and Jian Changfeng angrily warned her companion to keep her in check.

• Jian Changfeng led Ye Lin and the others to the Lotus Pool, where powerful cultivators had gathered.
• Jian Changfeng introduced Ye Lin and his companions as Blood Slaughter’s friends, drawing hostile looks from the crowd.
• Yu'er questioned whether outsiders were allowed at the Crimson Wasteland Grand Gathering.
• Jian Changfeng rebuked Liu Laosan and threatened to discipline Yu'er himself.
• Liu Laosan apologized and ordered Yu'er to apologize, but she retreated behind him instead.

Ye Lin challenged Liu Laosan after Liu Laosan and Yu'er provoked him, while Jian Changfeng tried to prevent a confrontation at the Heavenly Sword Sect gathering. Ye Lin insisted on settling the dispute himself, and Jian Changfeng agreed to provide a stage while forbidding anyone from killing.

• Yu'er's companion apologized for her behavior, and Ye Lin questioned whether she deserved to attend a gathering of heavenly geniuses.
• Liu Laosan rose and accepted Ye Lin's challenge, while Yu'er sneered behind him.
• Jian Changfeng warned Liu Laosan that he would expel him if he continued acting recklessly at the Heavenly Sword Sect.
• Ye Lin stopped Jian Changfeng from intervening and insisted that he needed the chance to fight.
• Jian Changfeng agreed to provide a stage and warned Liu Laosan and the others not to strike to kill.

Ye Lin agreed to face Liu Laosan’s challenge on Jian Changfeng’s behalf, while Gu Qingzhi stepped forward to fight the woman on the White Jade Platform. Jian Changfeng explained that Liu Laosan opposed him because Yun Xuan’s fall had left him in charge of the Chosen Alliance, a position many refused to accept.

• Jian Changfeng formed a massive White Jade Platform and said it could withstand attacks from eighth-level Golden Immortals.
• The woman walked onto the platform after Jian Changfeng urged her to welcome their guests.
• Zhang Wusheng and Li Xiaoyao volunteered to fight, but Gu Qingzhi pushed past them and headed for the arena.
• Jian Changfeng told Ye Lin that Liu Laosan was using the gathering to challenge his leadership of the Chosen Alliance.
• Jian Changfeng explained that Yun Xuan had once led the alliance, which controlled most of the Crimson Wasteland’s resources and authority, and that many resented Jian Changfeng inheriting the position after Yun Xuan fell.

Ye Lin discussed Jian Changfeng’s profits as Alliance Leader and sent Gu Qingzhi to face Yu'er in battle. Gu Qingzhi began playing her azure zither as Yu'er charged, leaving their fight about to begin.

• Ye Lin teased Jian Changfeng about the profits of being Alliance Leader, and Jian Changfeng replied with a bitter smile.
• The surrounding prodigies discussed Jian Changfeng and watched as the confrontation began.
• Jian Changfeng worried that Ye Lin had sent someone who could not defeat Yu'er, but Ye Lin said the battle would make their name known and stand up for Jian Changfeng.
• Yu'er summoned a saber and taunted Gu Qingzhi, who answered by summoning an azure zither and beginning to play.
• Yu'er released her fifth-layer Golden Immortal aura and charged toward Gu Qingzhi.

Yu'er fought Gu Qingzhi, but Gu Qingzhi overwhelmed her with a musical illusion realm. Yu'er tried to resist the illusion and escape as meteors and magma-filled chasms threatened her.

• Yu'er attacked Gu Qingzhi with phantom blades, but Gu Qingzhi shattered them with a soundwave from her zither.
• Yu'er recognized that Gu Qingzhi was difficult to defeat, while Gu Qingzhi dismissed her attacks as childish.
• Gu Qingzhi used her zither to draw Yu'er into an illusion realm that replaced the arena with a grassland.
• Gu Qingzhi made meteors fall and chasms split open across the illusion realm.
• Yu'er closed her eyes, circulated her Primordial Spirit, and tried to escape the illusion.

Gu Qingzhi swiftly defeated Yu'er in the arena, impressing the watching cultivators and Jian Changfeng. After Yu'er returned to her young master, he killed her for losing, leaving his plan against Jian Changfeng in ruins.

• Gu Qingzhi defeated Yu'er in a dozen or so breaths and left the arena.
• Ye Lin praised Gu Qingzhi, while Wang Xiaoyun claimed he could have won in five breaths.
• Yu'er admitted her defeat to her young master after her arms and legs regrew.
• Yu'er's young master killed her by snapping his fingers and cursed her for losing.
• Jian Changfeng expressed surprise at Gu Qingzhi's strength.

Jian Changfeng reprimanded Liu Laosan and warned him to abandon his ambitions before opening the alliance gathering’s Dao discussion. He revealed the Heavenly Sword Sect’s Enlightenment Sacred Lotus as the platform for speakers, and several attendees volunteered to go first.

• Jian Changfeng confronted Liu Laosan for stirring up trouble and threatened to drive him out of the Crimson Wasteland if he continued challenging his authority.
• Liu Laosan backed down and argued that Yu'er’s death should not disrupt the grand gathering.
• Jian Changfeng announced that attendees would take turns expounding the Dao on the lotus platform for one year each.
• The gathering’s corridor transformed into a plaza, where the Enlightenment Sacred Lotus appeared before the meditation cushions.
• Several attendees praised the lotus and volunteered to expound the Dao first.

The prodigies gathered to take turns expounding their Dao, and Ye Lin gained valuable insights from their teachings. After thirty years, they finished and urged Jian Changfeng to share the true intent of his sword Dao.

• Jian Changfeng invited the prodigies to expound their Dao one at a time, and they sat on the prayer mats to listen.
• A young man began by teaching about the path of cultivation, and the prodigies listened as others took turns expounding their Dao.
• Ye Lin learned from the prodigies’ teachings, especially from three Heavenly Sword Sect disciples who spoke about the Great Dao of the sword.
• After thirty years, Ye Lin opened his eyes as the expounding ended, and Jian Changfeng asked whether anyone else wished to speak.
• The prodigies told Jian Changfeng that it was his turn to share the true intent of his sword Dao.

Jian Changfeng taught the gathered heavenly geniuses about the Sword Dao for a year, impressing them with his profound insights. After ending his discourse, he invited Ye Lin to take the Lotus Platform and share his teachings.

• Jian Changfeng accepted the crowd’s invitation and began expounding on the Sword Dao from the Lotus Platform.
• Jian Changfeng’s Sword Dao laws and visions immersed the heavenly geniuses, and Ye Lin set aside his restlessness to study them.
• After a year, Jian Changfeng stopped speaking and declined the geniuses’ requests to continue.
• Jian Changfeng invited Ye Lin, whom he called Fellow Daoist Blood Slaughter, to share his teachings, drawing expectant looks from the crowd.

Ye Lin accepted Jian Changfeng’s invitation to lecture from the Dao-Enlightenment Lotus Platform and began teaching the gathered cultivators about laws. He explained how laws relate to the Great Dao, but had not yet finished his lecture when the chapter ended.

• Ye Lin accepted Jian Changfeng’s invitation to sit on the Dao-Enlightenment Lotus Platform and share his Dao.
• Ye Lin discovered that the platform drew the true meanings of laws close and began considering how useful it would be to possess it.
• Ye Lin announced that he would speak about laws, exciting the gathered cultivators and worrying Jian Changfeng, who thought he was revealing too much.
• Ye Lin explained that the myriad laws derived from the Great Dao and that fully comprehending laws could let a cultivator touch the true Great Dao.

Ye Lin’s sermon on the laws helped a prodigy break through, but it was interrupted when a demonic infiltrator revealed himself among the listeners. The chapter ended as he unleashed a black box that engulfed several nearby prodigies in demonic qi.

• Ye Lin’s sermon filled the venue with celestial phenomena as the prodigies listened.
• A prodigy broke through to the sixth level of the Golden Immortal realm and bowed to Ye Lin before sitting back down.
• Ye Lin sensed trouble and looked toward the horizon, while Wang Xiaoyun and Jian Changfeng detected demonic qi.
• A prodigy in the crowd revealed his allegiance to demons and monsters and released demonic qi from his body.
• The young man pulled out a black box and unleashed demonic qi that swallowed several nearby prodigies.

Demon-monsters launched a large-scale invasion of the Heavenward Sword Sect after spies sabotaged its Sect Protection Array. Jian Changfeng learned that Golden Immortal defenders were struggling to hold them off, leaving the sect under attack from within and without.

• Prodigies confronted a young man whose demonic energy spread through the gathering, while demonic dragons appeared in the sky.
• Jian Changfeng ordered the Heavenward Sword Sect disciples to activate the Sect Protection Array, but they reported that the young man had destroyed it.
• The young man was consumed by demonic energy as demonic dragons attacked the sect and its buildings were blasted apart.
• A prodigy urged the others to fight, and several prodigies flew up to battle the demonic dragons.
• Jian Changfeng contacted the sect with a Jade Talisman and learned that demon-monster spies had sabotaged the array and Golden Immortal defenders were close to being overwhelmed.