Recaps

Naya spent the night tending to Ye Lin's wounds, and his body began healing after she left. After sleeping through the day, she woke to find the village celebrating a successful hunt.

• Naya ground herbs and applied them to Ye Lin's wounds until sunrise.
• After Naya left to wash Ye Lin's clothes, his chest began beating violently and a fiery red glow appeared around his heart as his injuries healed.
• Naya washed Ye Lin's clothes at the village well, then returned home and fell asleep from exhaustion.
• Naya woke at night and joined the villagers gathered around three wild boars brought back by the hunting party.
• Pillar announced that the village would prepare a roast-meat feast.

Naya cared for the unconscious Ye Lin after the village’s bonfire feast, and a fiery red glow healed his severe injuries overnight. His body recovered and he began breathing, but he remained unconscious as a Little Phoenix appeared above his chest.

• The villagers held a bonfire feast, confident that gathering together at night kept the terrifying things away.
• Naya told Pillar that Ye Lin showed no sign of improvement and would need a long time to recover.
• Naya secretly fed Ye Lin roasted meat and wiped him down before falling asleep beside his bed.
• A fiery red glow emerged from Ye Lin’s chest during the night and rapidly healed his injuries.
• Naya found Ye Lin’s injuries gone and his breathing steady, but he had not woken up.
• After Naya left, a Little Phoenix formed from the crimson light above Ye Lin’s chest.

After a month unconscious, Ye Lin awakened and realized Naya had cared for him throughout his recovery. He stayed in the village to regain his strength, while his body and soul continued growing stronger through Phoenix Nirvana.

• Naya wondered why Ye Lin remained unconscious even though his injuries had healed, then fell asleep beside his bed.
• Ye Lin woke, moved Naya onto the bed, and covered her with a soft blanket.
• Ye Lin thanked Naya for her care and resolved never to let her down.
• Ye Lin brewed tea outside and assessed his slow cultivation recovery and the strengthening of his body and soul.
• Ye Lin decided to remain hidden in the village until he recovered, then prepared nourishing soup from ingredients in his Spatial Ring.

Ye Lin cared for Naya after she woke, giving her nourishing soup and a white dress. As Naya came outside dressed, Ye Lin was struck by her beauty.

• Ye Lin brought Naya a bowl of nourishing soup, and she drank it eagerly.
• Ye Lin told Naya to keep the jade bowl and promised to explain who he was someday.
• Ye Lin gave Naya a white dress and waited outside while she got dressed.
• Naya folded the blanket, came outside, and Ye Lin froze at how beautiful she looked.

Ye Lin explored Naya’s village in the Hundred Thousand Mountains after recovering from his injuries, while Naya explained how she had found him. The visit was cut short when Stone warned Naya that her father, the village chief, might not have much time left, and they hurried to see him.

• Naya showed Ye Lin around her village in the Hundred Thousand Mountains, where the villagers stared at him and admired her white dress.
• Naya asked how Ye Lin had been injured, and he said villains had ambushed him and vowed to kill Li Miaoling once he recovered.
• Stone greeted Naya and Ye Lin, and Ye Lin thanked Stone for carrying him back to the village.
• Stone told Naya that her father, the village chief, might not have much time left, so Naya led Stone and Ye Lin toward the village’s tallest building.

Ye Lin found Naya and Pillar’s dying father and asked to speak with him alone. He used three drops of the Elf Race’s Holy Water to restore the old man, who had been left recovering when the chapter ended.

• Naya and Pillar visited their dying father, and he placed Pillar’s hand over Naya’s to entrust her care to him.
• The old man saw Ye Lin at the doorway, and Pillar explained that Ye Lin was the human he and Naya had rescued in the jungle.
• Ye Lin asked to speak with the old man alone, and Pillar and Naya left with Stone after their father nodded.
• Ye Lin joked that the old man would be his father-in-law someday, then used three drops of the Elf Race’s Holy Water to restore his body.

Ye Lin restored Naya and Pillar's dying father to health and youth, leaving the family reunited and Pillar grateful despite Ye Lin refusing to explain how he did it.

• Ye Lin withdrew his palm and told the old man to get up after healing him.
• The old man discovered his strength and black hair had returned, then walked out after ten years confined to bed.
• Naya and Pillar saw their father standing in the doorway, and Naya embraced him.
• Ye Lin explained that cultivators could overcome illnesses that seemed fatal to mortals.
• Pillar asked Ye Lin how he had transformed their father, but Ye Lin refused to explain, and Pillar felt grateful.

After Ye Lin restored Naya’s father’s youth, he played chess with him while Naya watched. The old man warned Ye Lin that village rules forbade outsiders from marrying Naya, but Ye Lin argued that the village’s isolation was causing unhealthy births and that its people needed to marry outside.

• Pillar thanked Ye Lin, and Naya tearfully embraced her father, who had become younger.
• Ye Lin and the old man played chess while Naya watched, and the old man repeatedly lost.
• After sending Naya away to prepare food, the old man warned Ye Lin that ancestral rules forbade villagers from marrying outsiders.
• Ye Lin explained that generations of marriage among the descendants of the village’s original three men and two women had led to declining birth survival and poor health.
• Ye Lin urged the village to marry its women out and take wives from other villages, while the old man questioned whether he had invented the explanation to marry Naya.

Ye Lin agreed to teach the village children fighting skills, while his cultivation recovered toward its peak and he prepared a proper meal for Naya. The village chief returned with six children, only to find Ye Lin and Naya gone and wild vegetable soup left on the stone table.

• The village chief asked Ye Lin to teach the village children, and Ye Lin agreed to teach them fighting skills but not his cultivation methods.
• The village chief hurried off to gather the children as Ye Lin realized he had about a month before his cultivation recovered to its peak.
• Naya brought boiled wild grass for a meal, and Ye Lin led her away and cooked soup with ingredients from his Spatial Ring.
• Naya ate the soup happily while Ye Lin watched over her.
• The village chief returned with six children and found an empty stone table and the wild vegetable soup.

Ye Lin offered to teach the village’s six children mortal martial arts so they could defend themselves against Demon Beasts. They all chose to endure the training, and Ye Lin began examining their bodies to tailor their techniques.

• The Old Village Chief fed wild vegetable soup to six hungry village children.
• Ye Lin returned with Naya and told the Old Village Chief that he had made food for her.
• Ye Lin announced that he would teach the six children martial arts and warned them that training would be bitter and difficult.
• All six children chose to stay and learn, earning the Old Village Chief’s approval.
• Unable to use his divine sense, Ye Lin began feeling one child’s bones to map his body and meridians.

Ye Lin taught six village children martial cultivation methods and supervised their first practice, but their poor aptitude left him deeply frustrated. He told them to eat more meat as their training continued, while Stone slipped away after secretly watching the lessons.

• Ye Lin gave the six children cultivation methods and spent the morning teaching them how to circulate their inner force.
• The children struggled through practice, suffering repeated qi deviations until Ye Lin helped them memorize their methods.
• Ye Lin dismissed the children and told them to eat more meat to support their training.
• Ye Lin told the Old Village Chief that the children's aptitude was terrible, and Stone vanished into the night after watching secretly.
• Ye Lin asked the Old Village Chief to prepare more meat for the children, though the Old Village Chief doubted they would eat much.

Ye Lin left Naya and the Old Village Chief and met Stone by the river, where Stone asked him to teach him martial arts. Ye Lin gave Stone an overnight endurance test and promised to teach him real skills if he completed it.

• Naya asked Ye Lin to eat, and he left because he had nowhere to stay.
• Naya asked the Old Village Chief whether they could build Ye Lin a house, but he said Ye Lin would leave eventually.
• Ye Lin found Stone sitting beside the river and heard that Stone wanted to learn martial arts.
• Stone told Ye Lin he slept outside because his small house had room only for his mother.
• Ye Lin told Stone to carry a boulder and run laps around the village all night, promising to teach him real skills if he endured it.
• Stone lifted the boulder onto his back and began running.

Ye Lin recovered while Stone completed an overnight endurance test, then agreed to take Pillar's little sister with him when he left. Pillar reacted in shock to Ye Lin's plan.

• Ye Lin absorbed Top-Tier Spirit Stones through the night while Stone ran around the village three times at his request.
• Ye Lin restored Stone's strength, declared that he had passed the test, and told him to wait that night to learn the real thing.
• Ye Lin found the six children practicing their cultivation methods and watched them with Pillar over tea.
• Pillar thanked Ye Lin for saving his father and said his little sister had fallen for him and would cry when he left.
• Ye Lin told Pillar he would take his little sister with him, and Pillar slammed down his teacup in alarm.

Ye Lin tried to convince Pillar that his little sister would be safer and better cared for elsewhere, while the children trained under Ye Lin’s guidance. Ten days later, Stone had advanced enough to fight a Qi Refining Level 5 cultivator to a draw, and all six children had reached the Innate Realm.

• Pillar rejected Ye Lin’s offer to take his little sister away, but Ye Lin pointed out that the village could not keep her safe or fed.
• Pillar left without answering Ye Lin, unable to refute his argument.
• Ye Lin spent the next ten days teaching the six children cultivation, strength training, and fighting techniques as his own cultivation slowly recovered.
• Stone trained relentlessly while guarding the village and hunting, and with Ye Lin’s guidance he learned to fight a Qi Refining Level 5 cultivator to a draw.
• Ye Lin watched the six children spar after they all reached the Innate Realm.

As Demon Beasts killed and injured villagers, Ye Lin continued cultivating and prepared to leave after reaching Spirit Transformation Late Stage. The Old Village Chief announced that the village would evacuate to another village within half an hour.

• Naya told Ye Lin that three villagers had died and five had been seriously injured during a hunt, then asked when he would leave.
• Ye Lin said he would depart within a few days after his cultivation recovered, leaving Naya saddened.
• As the Demon Beasts advanced and villagers continued to suffer casualties, Ye Lin reached Spirit Transformation Late Stage atop a cliff.
• The Old Village Chief told the villagers that only six members of their hunting party remained and that the village had to migrate to one that had agreed to take them in.
• The Old Village Chief ordered everyone to pack so they could leave within half an hour, while the women and elderly reluctantly prepared to go.

A bloodied messenger warned the village that Demon Beasts had surrounded it, and panic erupted as villagers fled toward the Back Mountain. Naya instead headed for the village wall to face the beasts, with Ye Lin following behind her.

• A dying burly man reported that Demon Beasts had surrounded the village.
• The Old Village Chief urged everyone to flee through the Back Mountain as the square descended into chaos.
• Naya returned home, changed into a grass skirt, took her spear, and walked toward the village wall.
• Ye Lin sensed more than a thousand Demon Beasts, including a Golden Core-stage commander, and followed Naya as beasts began attacking villagers.
• The Old Village Chief led the six children Ye Lin had taught toward the Back Mountain.

Naya reached the village wall and found her brother Pillar mortally wounded after the Demon Beasts’ attack. Ye Lin sensed Li Miaoling nearby, pursued her into the sky, and examined her cultivation, destiny, and traits.

• Naya killed a charging Demon Beast with her spear and pushed its corpse off herself.
• Naya reached the destroyed wall and found Pillar lying bloodied at the village entrance.
• Naya held Pillar as he apologized for being unable to protect her, and she begged him not to die.
• Ye Lin sensed Li Miaoling’s familiar aura, vanished, and appeared high in the sky to search for her.
• Ye Lin saw Li Miaoling’s figure briefly and read the information displayed about her fate, identity, and abilities.

As Pillar lay dying, Stone held off the Demon Beasts so Naya could escape. Stone was soon overwhelmed, and Naya charged toward the beasts with a spear, believing Ye Lin had fled.

• Ye Lin watched someone disappear and realized his panel revealed the future actions of people he caught.
• Pillar urged Naya to flee, then pushed her away as his wounds continued to bleed.
• Stone arrived covered in wounds and stood between Naya and the Demon Beasts.
• The Demon Beasts overwhelmed Stone, but he grabbed one by the leg and kept urging Naya to run.
• Naya wept over Pillar's death and Stone's impending death, then took a spear and charged at the beasts.

Ye Lin saved Naya from the Demon Beasts and revived Stone, but he could not restore her brother Pillar, whose soul had dispersed. Realizing his feelings for Naya were gratitude rather than love, Ye Lin asked her to come with him.

• Stone held a Demon Beast back as Naya approached it with her spear.
• A Demon Beast leaped at Naya, but Ye Lin struck it with lightning and killed all the Demon Beasts.
• Ye Lin healed and revived Stone, who had just died protecting Naya.
• Naya begged Ye Lin to save Pillar, but Ye Lin explained that Pillar's soul had dispersed and could not be restored.
• Ye Lin recognized that he felt gratitude rather than love for Naya and asked her to come with him.

Ye Lin accepted Naya’s decision to stay, gave her a protective necklace, and left. He then found the Mountain-Moving Daoist’s hidden collection and began inspecting its Spatial Ring.

• Naya refused to leave with Ye Lin, choosing to remain in her village with Stone.
• Ye Lin gave Naya a life-saving necklace, then tore open space and departed.
• Naya wiped away a tear and carried Pillar’s corpse with Stone toward the Back Mountain.
• Ye Lin found the mountain a hundred li from Buddha Mountain and broke into its sealed center.
• Ye Lin gathered the spiritual herbs, took the transparent Spatial Ring, and easily broke its restriction to inspect it.

Ye Lin waited at Buddha Mountain and used ten days of cultivation to approach the peak of the Spirit Transformation realm. When Li Miaoling arrived seeking Sarira, Ye Lin ambushed him, leaving Li Miaoling injured and stunned that Ye Lin was alive.

• Ye Lin examined the Spatial Ring of a Spirit Transformation True Person, took its useful items, and began cultivating for ten days.
• Li Miaoling flew toward Buddha Mountain, hoping to obtain three Sarira to strengthen his Demon Body and anticipating Ye Lin's death.
• Li Miaoling sensed something drawing him toward a mountain and descended to investigate.
• Ye Lin launched a thousand-meter sword light from the mountain, forcing Li Miaoling to use a secret technique and injure his meridians to escape.
• Ye Lin emerged from the mountain and approached Li Miaoling, who stared at him in disbelief that he was still alive.

Ye Lin confronted Li Miaoling, who was shocked to find him alive after believing she had killed him. He trapped her in a sword formation and prepared to kill her, but she tried to save herself by revealing she knew where a Stone Stele was.

• Li Miaoling was stunned to see Ye Lin alive and wondered how he had survived after his divine soul had dispersed.
• Ye Lin taunted Li Miaoling for waiting ten days, and she admitted she had thought he was dead before attempting to leave.
• Ye Lin activated the Five Direction Sword Formation, trapping Li Miaoling and driving her back toward him.
• Ye Lin gathered his power and prepared to kill Li Miaoling while she was too weak to resist.
• Li Miaoling offered to reveal the whereabouts of a Stone Stele, warning that Ye Lin would never obtain it if he killed her.

Ye Lin killed Li Miaoling and searched her soul, learning that the Stone Stele he needed was in the Demon Sea. He set his sights on the remote realm, where the Stone Stele was due to be auctioned in a little over ten days.

• Ye Lin struck Li Miaoling through the chest with his sword, overpowering her with his higher cultivation.
• Ye Lin seized Li Miaoling's soul as she begged him to spare her.
• Ye Lin used Soul Search to torment Li Miaoling and erase her soul.
• Ye Lin learned from Li Miaoling's memories that the Stone Stele was in an auction house in the Demon Sea.
• Ye Lin discovered that the Demon Sea lay on an island at the Eastern Continent's border and required a pass to enter.

Ye Lin sent his mid-stage Spirit Transformation clone toward the border of the Eastern Continent to investigate the Demon Sea while returning to Nameless Mountain himself. He found the mountain quiet and its disciples gathered as if mourning, then summoned Ren Feiyang to his residence.

• Ye Lin created a clone and asked it to travel toward the Demon Sea in his place.
• The clone left for the Eastern Continent's border, keeping a low profile as it crossed other races' territories.
• Ye Lin inspected Li Miaoling's Spatial Ring and found only useless items.
• Ye Lin returned to Nameless Mountain and saw white-clad disciples gathered as if mourning someone.
• Ye Lin summoned Ren Feiyang, who was already waiting outside his residence.

Ren Feiyang reported to Ye Lin on Nameless Mountain’s campaign to unify the Five Prefectures, the Human Race’s encirclement by five enemy clans, and the coming battle to choose a new Sect Master. Ye Lin saw the prefectures’ unification as good news but knew Nameless Mountain would remain divided until a new leader took office.

• Ye Lin summoned Ren Feiyang and asked him to report the important recent developments.
• Ren Feiyang said Nameless Mountain had subdued four Human Race prefectures and was close to crushing the remaining resistance in Black Sand Prefecture.
• Ren Feiyang reported that the Shadow Clan and four other clans had massed troops along the Human Race’s borders, leaving the race surrounded and facing a possible invasion.
• Ren Feiyang said the Ancestral Land would choose a new Sect Master through battle within a month, and that a Nameless Mountain True Lord had died during the campaign against the rebel army.
• Ye Lin considered the reports and concluded that the Human Race’s internal unity was improving, but Nameless Mountain would remain divided until its new Sect Master was chosen.