Recaps

Ye Lin watched Xu Xian marry Liu Shuangshuang, the Buddha Maiden of the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect, despite the sect’s prohibitions. The wedding was interrupted when the sect’s disciples surrounded the plaza and accused Liu Shuangshuang of betraying them.

• Ye Lin listened to cultivators discuss Xu Xian’s marriage to the Buddha Maiden and the sect’s three prohibitions.
• Xu Xian introduced Liu Shuangshuang as his wife and declared they would become Dao companions before heaven and the Heavenly Dao.
• Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect disciples appeared and surrounded the plaza, silencing the wedding guests.
• The leading disciple accused Liu Shuangshuang of betraying the sect, violating its prohibitions, and repaying its kindness with ingratitude, then demanded to know if she admitted guilt.
• The cultivators debated the danger while choosing to watch, trusting Xu Xian’s father to protect the city.

At Liu Shuangshuang and Xu Xian’s wedding, Liu challenged the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect’s authority over her after she had left it three years earlier. The sect’s ancient Buddha appeared and demanded that she repent, but Liu stood by her decision to marry Xu Xian.

• Liu Shuangshuang declared that she had left the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect three years ago and asked why its prohibitions still applied to her.
• Xu Xian confirmed he had witnessed Liu’s departure and warned the sect’s disciples to leave unless they had come to celebrate.
• A disciple unfurled a scroll, summoning the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect’s colossal golden Buddha Dharma body.
• The ancient Buddha asked Liu whether she would repent, and Liu thanked him for raising her but insisted her mind was made up.

Myriad Forms tried to make Liu Shuangshuang return to the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect by invoking her duty as its Buddhist Maiden, and she began to submit to his words. Xu Xian’s father, Xu Xing, appeared in his true body to oppose Myriad Forms, who asked whether Xu Xing intended to stop him.

• Myriad Forms told Liu Shuangshuang that she belonged to the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect and urged her to return, unsettling her until she repeated that she was its hope.
• Xu Xian tried to wake Liu Shuangshuang, but she pushed him away and walked toward Myriad Forms.
• Xu Xing appeared and challenged Myriad Forms for trying to take Liu Shuangshuang back on Xu Xian’s wedding day.
• Cultivators in the plaza whispered that Xu Xing’s true body had the advantage over Myriad Forms’s incarnation.
• Myriad Forms asked Xu Xing whether he intended to stop him.

Xu Xing confronted Liu Shuangshuang as she prepared to return to the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect, but he withdrew after realizing he could not stop her. Liu Shuangshuang then called her relationship with Xu Xian a farce and declared their fate over, leaving Xu Xian stunned.

• Liu Shuangshuang told Xu Xing she had violated the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect’s prohibitions and had to return to face punishment.
• Xu Xing tried to restrain Liu Shuangshuang, then withdrew his methods and left after realizing he could not overcome the situation.
• The watching cultivators suspected Liu Shuangshuang was being controlled but were afraid to challenge the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect.
• Xu Xian called out to Liu Shuangshuang, but she said their relationship had been a farce and that their fate had run its course.

After the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect departed, Ye Lin deduced that the sect had secretly controlled Liu Shuangshuang through something fused with her Primordial Spirit. He then rushed from Giant City to meet a young man his clone had found, but the man attacked the clone before Ye Lin arrived.

• The Buddha warned Xu Xian that his marriage fate did not lie with the Buddha’s disciple, then cautioned Ye Lin against being too rigid before vanishing.
• The Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect’s disciples left, and the cultivators dispersed from the arena.
• Ye Lin concluded that the sect had planted something in Liu Shuangshuang’s Primordial Spirit that let the Buddha control her mind.
• Ye Lin’s clone confronted a handsome young man in an unnamed mountain range and said Ye Lin’s true body was on the way.
• The young man attacked Ye Lin’s clone with a flaming palm, and the clone rapidly retreated.

Ye Lin confronted Tang Cheng after mistaking him for someone connected to the Divine Maiden of Divine Mountain, then realized he might have the wrong person. He showed Tang Cheng a portrait and ordered him to find the person in it or die.

• Ye Lin destroyed an avatar and then stopped Tang Cheng, sensing that he was a fourth-level Golden Immortal.
• Tang Cheng denied knowing the Divine Maiden of Divine Mountain and pleaded with Ye Lin to believe he had the wrong person.
• Ye Lin suspected Tang Cheng was hiding his strength and questioned him about concealing his cultivation.
• Tang Cheng explained that he kept his cultivation hidden for safety and gave Ye Lin his name.
• Ye Lin showed Tang Cheng a portrait and demanded that he find the person depicted or be killed.

Ye Lin ordered Tang Cheng to find a man who looked like him, then discovered that cultivators from the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect were killing his external incarnations. He set out to confront them and feed their blood to his Bloodthirsty Demon Sword.

• Ye Lin showed Tang Cheng a portrait and threatened to kill him if he failed to find the man depicted.
• After Ye Lin left, Tang Cheng complained about the task but began mobilizing his connections to search.
• Ye Lin relied on hundreds of thousands of external incarnations to look for the target while he strolled through the area.
• Ye Lin sensed that more than a thousand of his incarnations had been killed by cultivators in coarse hemp robes from the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect.
• Ye Lin vanished to confront the Buddhist cultivators and sacrifice their blood to his Bloodthirsty Demon Sword.

Black Emperor assessed Wang Tianyi, Bao Xiaotou, and Li Xiaoyao as they trained, praising Wang Tianyi’s alchemy while warning Bao Xiaotou against overreaching. He left encouraged by Li Xiaoyao’s aptitude for the Dao of Strength.

• Black Emperor praised Wang Tianyi’s alchemy and told him to keep practicing because his immortal pill success rate was only twenty percent.
• Black Emperor scolded Bao Xiaotou for attempting the Blood Refining Grand Formation before he was ready and ordered him to face the wall.
• Bao Xiaotou left determined to master the formation, and Black Emperor worried that his pride would hinder his future.
• Black Emperor examined Li Xiaoyao and recognized his strong aptitude for the Dao of Strength.

The Black Emperor assessed the group’s talents and began guiding them, giving Shangguan Wanyu a foundational cultivation technique and deciding to train Ye Lin. Luo Yao confronted him and warned him to stay away, leaving the Black Emperor baffled by her hostility.

• The Black Emperor praised Li Xiaoyao’s steady approach to cultivation and criticized Bao Xiaotou for chasing unrealistic shortcuts.
• The Black Emperor found Gu Qingzhi immersed in enlightenment as she played her zither.
• The Black Emperor gave Shangguan Wanyu a foundational cultivation technique that could make her a true evil god once mastered.
• The Black Emperor judged Ye Lin’s poor talent remarkable and decided he wanted to train him further.
• Luo Yao called the Black Emperor a bad man, threatened to tell Great River if he approached her, and said she hated him without knowing why.

Ye Lin confronted three Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect monks who had caused the loss of his avatars, then recognized Myriad Forms as the powerful incarnation behind them. Myriad Forms explained that he intended to make Ye Lin the sect’s next Buddha Son, leaving Ye Lin facing capture.

• Ye Lin confronted the three sixth-level Golden Immortal monks after chasing them for three months and demanded they reveal who was behind them.
• The leading monk invited Ye Lin to visit the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect, but Ye Lin refused to trust him and called for their hidden backer.
• Myriad Forms appeared, and Ye Lin recognized him as the Buddha he had encountered in Giant City, now present through a powerful external incarnation.
• Myriad Forms listed Ye Lin’s crimes against the sect and declared that, with the Buddha Son dead, Ye Lin would become the sect’s next Buddha Son.

Myriad Forms tried to compel Ye Lin to join the Buddhist Sect, but Ye Lin fled toward Giant City. Myriad Forms trapped him inside Buddha Kingdom in the Palm, and Ye Lin began to fight back with his full power.

• Myriad Forms told Ye Lin to come with him and become the Buddhist Sect's next Buddha Son, but Ye Lin refused and used Near Yet Far to flee.
• Myriad Forms cast Buddha Kingdom in the Palm while Ye Lin raced toward Giant City, unaware that he was already caught in the technique.
• Ye Lin discovered five pillars closing around him and realized Myriad Forms had trapped him in his palm.
• Ye Lin drew on all his immortal fortune and unleashed Grand Void Ashen Extinction Finger against Myriad Forms' incarnation.

Ye Lin escaped Myriad Forms' Buddha Kingdom in the Palm by using the Grand Void Ashen Extinction Finger, but the attack revealed a secret that made Myriad Forms determined to capture him. Ye Lin returned to Giant City to recover, knowing the Buddhist Sect would pursue him.

• Ye Lin shattered the Buddha Kingdom in the Palm and escaped Myriad Forms' incarnation.
• Myriad Forms recognized that Ye Lin's finger technique surpassed Dao rank and ordered the Buddhist Sect to suspend its plans and search for him.
• The three Buddhist cultivators accepted Myriad Forms' decree and began contacting nearby disciples to encircle Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin returned to Giant City, exhausted after using the Grand Void Ashen Extinction Finger, and sought a quiet place to recover.

Ye Lin spent ten years hiding and cultivating in Giant City while his avatars searched for the person he sought and the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect waited outside to ambush him. Xu Xing assured Ye Lin he could remain in the city, and a message arrived on Ye Lin’s Jade Talisman as he considered his next steps.

• Ye Lin stayed in Giant City for ten years, restoring his immortal fortune power and sending out avatars to search while keeping his true body hidden.
• Xu Xing visited Ye Lin and asked how he had provoked the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect, whose forces surrounded the city.
• Ye Lin explained that he had accidentally ruined several of the sect’s plans and offered to leave if his presence troubled Xu Xing.
• Xu Xing said Ye Lin could stay in Giant City and that the Buddhist Sect would not dare enter while he was there.
• Ye Lin considered how to resolve his grudge and gather resources, then saw his Jade Talisman glow with news.

Tang Cheng found the person Ye Lin was searching for at Mo Xing Mountain, and Ye Lin rushed there despite the Buddhist cultivators waiting to capture him. The chapter ended as an angry voice ordered Ye Lin and Tang Cheng to leave the mountain.

• Tang Cheng contacted Ye Lin and reported that the person he sought was at Mo Xing Mountain.
• Ye Lin left Giant City and used Near Yet Far, Flash to escape the Buddhist cultivators’ ambush.
• Ye Lin raced toward Mo Xing Mountain, spending his immortal fortune along the way, and arrived after an hour.
• Tang Cheng told Ye Lin that the person inside had driven him away because of his high cultivation and bad temper.
• Ye Lin entered Mo Xing Mountain with Tang Cheng following, and an angry voice ordered them to leave.

Ye Lin found and captured a young man who appeared connected to the Divine Maiden of Divine Mountain, then headed to Divine Mountain with him. Tang Cheng was left behind as Buddhist pursuers approached and fled in panic.

• Ye Lin questioned the young man about the Divine Maiden and noticed his momentary panic.
• The young man denied knowing what Ye Lin meant, so Ye Lin used Thunder Prison to restrain him and controlled his Primordial Spirit.
• Ye Lin warned Tang Cheng to run, seized the young man, and departed for Divine Mountain as his three avatars returned.
• Tang Cheng heard Buddhist chants and saw Buddha light approaching, then scrambled away from the pursuing monks.

Ye Lin returned to Divine Mountain with the young man the divine woman had asked him to find. The divine woman showed no mercy to the man, leaving his fate unresolved as she threw him into the spring.

• Buddhist cultivators searched Mo Xing Mountain for Ye Lin and dispersed to look for him throughout the Demon-Monster Realm.
• Ye Lin brought the young man to Divine Mountain despite his desperate pleas and struggling.
• Ye Lin told the divine woman he had found the person she wanted after ten years.
• The young man begged the divine woman for forgiveness, but she picked him up and threw him into the spring.

Ye Lin received the Jade Ring Fruit from the goddess after helping her recover the Jade Ring Tree, and learned that the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect had tracked him with a divine-sense mark. With the mark removed, he left Divine Mountain and headed toward the City of Rebirth to seek Night-Walking Grass.

• The young man transformed into the Jade Ring Tree, and the goddess gave Ye Lin a Jade Ring Fruit as his reward for finding him.
• The goddess asked Ye Lin about the bald monks beneath Divine Mountain, and he said he had a small grudge against them.
• The goddess removed the divine-sense mark that had let the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect track Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin left Divine Mountain and used Near Yet Far to evade his pursuers.
• Ye Lin identified Night-Walking Grass in the City of Rebirth as his next target.

Ye Lin arrived at the Ghost City, where ghost cultivators gathered to cultivate in the abundant yin energy. He entered the city unchallenged and began observing its inhabitants.

• The chapter explained that ghost cultivators had lost their physical bodies and that their cultivation was slow, leading many to attempt body-snatching rebirth.
• After three days of travel, Ye Lin reached the black-walled City of Rebirth beneath its eerie green glow.
• Two skeleton guards watched Ye Lin pass through the city gate but did not stop him.
• Ye Lin felt the dense yin energy inside the city and saw ghost cultivators of many races watching him as he strolled through the streets.

Ye Lin entered the City of Rebirth and went to the City Lord’s Mansion to discuss a business deal. He learned that the City Lord had left ten years earlier, leaving Ye Lin without a clear way to meet him.

• Ye Lin asked a legless ghost cultivator for directions to the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Ye Lin warned the surrounding ghost cultivators to stop staring at him, and their gazes disappeared.
• Ye Lin reached the City Lord’s Mansion and told the old man at the gate that he wanted to discuss a business deal.
• The old man said the City Lord had left the city ten years ago and did not know when he would return.
• Ye Lin considered why the city’s strongest ghost cultivator, at Golden Immortal Sixth Layer, was not subject to the Heavenly Dao’s confinement.

Ye Lin threatened the City of Rebirth and forced an old man to take him to its treasury. He sent his clone Xiaoyao through the entrance while he stayed outside to avoid a possible trap.

• Ye Lin demanded that the City Lord appear within three days or he would destroy the City of Rebirth, then abandoned the Night-Walking Grass deal and entered the residence.
• The old man warned Ye Lin that the City of Rebirth was under the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect, and Ye Lin realized the City Lord might have been summoned to hunt him.
• Ye Lin grabbed the old man and threatened him until he agreed to lead the way to the treasury.
• The old man opened a hidden entrance in a dilapidated hut and entered the black vortex first.
• Ye Lin summoned his clone Xiaoyao and sent it through the vortex while he watched from outside through Xiaoyao's eyes.

Xiaoyao entered the City of Rebirth’s treasury disguised as Ye Lin, collected its treasures, and secured the Night-Walking Grass before killing the guardian. Ye Lin then left the city, bringing down the residence behind him as he disappeared.

• Xiaoyao entered the treasury, where the old man mistook him for Ye Lin and showed him the mountain of yin-items.
• Xiaoyao took the treasures, then made the old man retrieve the Night-Walking Grass so he could verify it before putting everything away again.
• Xiaoyao killed the old man with a lightning-charged slap.
• Xiaoyao waited until Ye Lin left, and Ye Lin stomped hard enough to shake the City of Rebirth and collapse the residence behind him.
• Ye Lin vanished from the City of Rebirth.

Ye Lin confronted the Buddhist cultivators who had tracked him to the City of Rebirth and refused to surrender, choosing instead to attack them. Their Buddhist light devastated the ghost cultivators below, and Ye Lin mocked the sect’s creed as the ghosts pleaded for their lives.

• Buddhist cultivators surrounded Ye Lin above the City of Rebirth and demanded that he come with them to the Buddhist Sect.
• Ye Lin summoned the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and attacked the group with the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art.
• More than a hundred Golden Immortal Buddhist cultivators formed a colossal Buddha Dharma manifestation that scattered Ye Lin’s thunderclouds.
• The Buddhist light engulfed the City of Rebirth, causing ghost cultivators to writhe in agony and die.
• Ye Lin watched the ghosts’ suffering and challenged the Buddhist cultivators’ claim to save all living beings.

Ye Lin escaped the Buddhas’ attack, but their palm destroyed the City of Rebirth and annihilated its ghost cultivators. After the Buddhas killed an enraged ghost cultivator who confronted them, they resumed pursuing Ye Lin to carry out Buddha’s decree.

• The Buddhas attacked Ye Lin with a sealing formation and a golden palm, but Ye Lin escaped as their strike demolished the City of Rebirth and killed its hundreds of millions of ghost cultivators.
• A sixth-level Golden Immortal ghost cultivator confronted the Buddhas, demanding to know why they had broken their promise and destroyed the city’s inhabitants.
• The Buddhas dismissed the ghost cultivator as fallen into demonic ways and killed him with Buddha light.
• The Buddhas decided to continue pursuing Ye Lin and carry out Buddha’s decree.

After four hundred years of plundering the Demon-Monster Realm and evading the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect, Ye Lin gathered every treasure on Black Emperor’s list. With the realm’s factions hunting him, he set out to reunite with Li Xiaoyao and the others so they could leave.

• Ye Lin used the Time Gu to escape the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect’s pursuit.
• Over four hundred years, Ye Lin searched the Demon-Monster Realm for treasures while repeatedly evading the Buddhist Sect and other pursuers.
• Ye Lin gathered all the treasures on Black Emperor’s list, but his attempts to fight an eighth-layer Golden Immortal ended in a crushing defeat.
• Ye Lin decided to leave the Demon-Monster Realm and headed toward the location Li Xiaoyao had sent him.
• Ye Lin spent a month finding Li Xiaoyao and the others in a hidden spot at the bottom of a mountain range.

Ye Lin reunited with Luo Yao and the others, whose cultivation had advanced dramatically under Black Emperor’s training. After Ye Lin explained that he had angered the major powers of the Demon-Monster Realm, Black Emperor agreed they needed to leave.

• Ye Lin entered the cave and reunited with Luo Yao, Li Xiaoyao, and the others on the plain.
• Ye Lin observed that Li Xiaoyao and Gu Qingzhi had reached Golden Immortal Level 7, while Shangguan Wanyu, Wang Tian, and Bao Xiaotou had reached Golden Immortal Level 6.
• Black Emperor credited his training for their progress and said he would train Ye Lin next.
• Ye Lin told the group that the Demon-Monster Realm had become unsafe because he had offended its major powers.
• Black Emperor agreed that they needed to leave the Demon-Monster Realm.