Recaps

Ye Lin realized that the trapped cave was part of the Emperor Road trial and that killing its inhabitants could earn the points needed to escape. He attacked Snow Velvet and explained the trial’s rules, leaving Snow Lotus wounded and the others stunned.

• Ye Lin and Xuan Su despaired over being trapped, while Snow Lotus offered them a comfortable life in the safe cave.
• Ye Lin realized the Heavenly Dao had left a way out and drew Azure Frost.
• Ye Lin charged Snow Velvet and cut her in two despite her attempt to flee.
• Snow Lotus attacked Ye Lin to avenge her sister, but he knocked her back and made her vomit blood.
• Ye Lin told Snow Velvet that the cave was part of the trial and that each person was worth one point, with three points needed to leave.

Ye Lin killed Snow Velvet, inferred the trial’s point system, and entered another secret realm after Xuan Su killed Snow Lotus to claim the remaining point. Ye Lin found a gigantic spider in the new realm and wondered what reward awaited him.

• Ye Lin killed Snow Velvet, gained the third point, and entered the vortex to the next stage.
• Xuan Su realized the trial rules still applied, killed Snow Lotus for the remaining point, and entered his own vortex.
• Ye Lin emerged in a familiar secret realm and chose a corridor at random.
• Sword Venerable entered the vortex but was immediately sent onward by another vortex before he could fight.
• Ye Lin encountered a mountain-sized spider, found no treasure, and turned to face it.

Ye Lin collected Snowfield Divine Spider silk and met Auntie Xue, who agreed to weave him a garment during the next Emperor Road trial. She began telling him how she had once been an ordinary mortal, while hinting at her rivalry with the Sword Venerable.

• Ye Lin defeated the giant spider by gathering its indestructible silk until it could no longer produce any, then destroyed it and returned to the Emperor Road.
• The Sword Venerable warned Ye Lin to be careful in the next round but refused to explain why.
• Ye Lin entered the vortex and found Auntie Xue weaving beneath a peach tree beside a sea of clouds.
• Ye Lin gave Auntie Xue his Snowfield Divine Spider silk and asked her to make him a garment; she agreed to alter the design of his blood-red robe.
• Auntie Xue said Ye Lin's low cultivation meant she could not beat the Sword Venerable, then began telling Ye Lin about her life as an ordinary mortal.

Aunt Xue recounted how she rescued the Sword Venerable as a beggar, entered a cultivation sect alongside him, and repeatedly watched him get deceived by women. The chapter ended with her recalling that, a hundred years later, she took in the injured Sword Venerable after he regretted ignoring her warnings.

• Aunt Xue said she took the nearly frozen Sword Venerable home, cared for him, and later entered a sect with him after immortals recruited them.
• Aunt Xue warned the Sword Venerable about a demoness, but he ignored her and was robbed, crippled, and left with a shattered dantian.
• Aunt Xue stayed beside the Sword Venerable as he recovered over ten years, then accompanied him when he sought revenge and killed the demoness.
• The Sword Venerable fell for another woman despite Aunt Xue's warnings, while Aunt Xue withdrew to cultivate in seclusion.
• A hundred years later, the injured Sword Venerable told Aunt Xue that he had been deceived again and regretted not listening, so she treated his wounds and sheltered him.

Aunt Xue told Ye Lin how Sword Venerable repeatedly fell in love and was deceived, until he sealed his heart with a Sword Dao oath. After giving Ye Lin his finished garment, she let him leave, but Ye Lin warned her that Sword Venerable was right behind him.

• Aunt Xue recounted how she and Sword Venerable reunited several times, only for him to keep falling for other women and getting deceived.
• Aunt Xue said Sword Venerable eventually sealed away his heart in the Nine Nether Cold Prison and explained that even at her current cultivation, she would not be his match.
• Aunt Xue showed Ye Lin the blood-red garment she had made, and he put it on.
• Aunt Xue opened a vortex for Ye Lin to leave, and he told her that Senior Sword Venerable was right behind him.
• Aunt Xue summoned silver needles and watched the vortex warily.

The Sword Venerable confronted Xue'er in the vortex, where she blamed him for her wrongful death and refused to move aside. Ye Lin emerged into an extraordinary cultivation environment and hurried on toward the next trial, aiming to grow stronger on the Emperor Road before pursuing the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.

• After Ye Lin left, the Sword Venerable entered the vortex and stopped Xue'er's silver needles with ease.
• Xue'er accused the Sword Venerable of causing her wrongful death, while he insisted that her death had nothing to do with him.
• Xue'er said she had told Ye Lin about the Sword Venerable's past deeds, but the Sword Venerable remained unconcerned and demanded that she move aside.
• Ye Lin emerged into a realm where Chaos Qi and the laws of heaven and earth poured into him, and he estimated he could reach the late stage of the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm in a thousand years.
• Ye Lin continued to the next trial, planning to reach the peak of the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm on the Emperor Road before pursuing the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.

Ye Lin entered a trial of Arenas where he had to defeat an opponent to advance. He killed Ren Feifan with ease and stepped into the vortex leading to the next trial.

• Ye Lin entered a vast arena trial and learned that defeating an opponent would let him advance.
• Ren Feifan challenged Ye Lin, confident that a cultivator from a later era would be weaker.
• Ye Lin wounded Ren Feifan with his aura alone, then killed him with a streak of Sword Qi.
• The Arena dissolved, and Ye Lin stepped into the vortex to continue the trial.

Ye Lin entered a starry realm and encountered the Sword Venerable, who recognized him as a swordsman from the future. They clashed in a fierce sword battle, which continued as the chapter ended.

• Ye Lin entered the vortex and found the Sword Venerable waiting in a starry sky beside an ancient sword.
• The Sword Venerable attacked Ye Lin with a Myriad Calamity Sword Prison of Geng Metal Sword Qi.
• Ye Lin shattered the Sword Mountain and cleaved the Sword Prison with a single strike, though his Sword Qi dissipated before reaching the Sword Venerable.
• Ye Lin charged the Sword Venerable, and the two fought across the starry sky, their swords colliding with devastating force.

Ye Lin defeated the Sword Venerable in a single clash, then left the stage. The Sword Venerable blamed his loss on Ye Lin’s Acquired Spirit Treasure and was unsettled to find Ye Lin waiting ahead after entering the next vortex.

• The Sword Venerable taunted Ye Lin as they fought, but Ye Lin’s relentless strikes forced him to defend.
• The Sword Venerable proposed settling the fight with one sword strike, and Ye Lin agreed.
• Ye Lin and the Sword Venerable unleashed their strongest sword attacks, tearing through space and shattering stars.
• Ye Lin sheathed Azure Frost and left after the Sword Venerable dissipated, with the Sword Venerable realizing Ye Lin’s weapon was an Acquired Spirit Treasure.
• The Sword Venerable questioned why Ye Lin had advanced so quickly, entered the vortex, and saw Ye Lin waiting in the distance.

Ye Lin continued along the Emperor Road, frustrated that it had given him no secret realms, while Liu Bai and Hong Batian struggled through its trials. The chapter ended with Hong Batian emerging from a trial battered and cursing the road.

• Sword Venerable argued with his distant counterpart, who claimed he had lost quickly because Ye Lin possessed a postnatal spiritual treasure.
• Ye Lin complained that the Heavenly Dao had provided no secret realms, then entered the next vortex, believing he was nearing the end of the Emperor Road.
• Liu Bai cursed the Emperor Road after barely defeating the Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord in the eighth trial and entered the next vortex.
• Hong Batian emerged from the vortex filthy and battered, complaining that the Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord and the Emperor Road had nearly killed him.

Ye Lin faced a checkpoint where only three of the ten people on each road could reach the exit vortex. He fought off the others and entered the vortex, passing the trial.

• Ye Lin learned that the first three people to reach the vortex would pass the checkpoint.
• When the trial began, Ye Lin fended off attacks and used Sword Qi to knock three figures ahead of him away.
• A young man ensnared Ye Lin's legs with Golden Cicada Silk, but Ye Lin cut through the threads with Azure Frost.
• Ye Lin reached the vortex, struck back at the figures pursuing him with the Grand Void Space-Rending Sword, and stepped through.

Ye Lin entered a secret realm filled with chaos qi on the Emperor Road and headed toward its center. Meanwhile, Li Xiaoyao escaped the eighth trial, where most challengers remained trapped by the Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord.

• Ye Lin arrived on the Emperor Road, discovered a secret realm, and walked toward a distant corridor with Azure Frost.
• Li Xiaoyao emerged from the eighth trial after facing the Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord and complained about the danger.
• Many Primordial Unity Golden Immortals and most younger geniuses remained stuck at the eighth trial, blaming Ye Lin for its extreme difficulty.
• Ye Lin entered a chaos-filled secret realm that resembled one he had visited before and heard terrifying shrieks from the void.
• Ye Lin carried Azure Frost toward the secret realm’s center, expecting its treasures to be there.

Ye Lin found a drop of blood essence guarded by colossal beasts and suspected it belonged to the mysterious figure whose blood had transformed his dantian. Determined to claim it, he unleashed his full power and charged into the beasts.

• Ye Lin followed the shrieks through the void and discovered a drop of golden blood surrounded by beasts from the Chaos Secret Realm.
• Ye Lin sensed that his dantian yearned for the blood and suspected it came from the mysterious expert whose blood had once changed him.
• Ye Lin decided he had to obtain the blood and advanced toward the beasts with Azure Frost.
• Three colossal beasts charged Ye Lin, and he cut them into blood mist with the Grand Void Space-Rending Sword.
• Ye Lin surrounded himself with Purgatory Ice Flame and charged alone into the remaining beasts.

Ye Lin fought through the Chaos Beasts and seized the essence blood, suppressing the urge to refine it until he could escape. Surrounded by countless beasts, he summoned the Emperor Sword, the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar, and his three clones, then charged into battle.

• Ye Lin discovered that the Chaos Beasts revived as they fought and decided to push past them instead of getting bogged down.
• Ye Lin cut through the beasts and reached the essence blood, whose presence made his dantian throb.
• Ye Lin stored the essence blood in his Spatial Ring and turned to face the beasts surrounding him.
• Ye Lin summoned the Emperor Sword and the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar, then called forth his three clones.
• Ye Lin and his clones charged at the Chaos Beasts as the creatures surged forward to attack.

Ye Lin fought through the chaotic colossal beasts and reached the next stage of the Emperor Road, where he entered a flower-filled world. Sword Venerable kept pace with him but evaded Ye Lin’s questions about how quickly he had completed the road in his own era.

• Ye Lin and his three clones fought through the chaotic colossal beasts, and he used the Grand Void Space-Rending Sword to clear a path out of the secret realm.
• Ye Lin recovered his spent power of chaos as he followed the corridor toward the Emperor Road and found Sword Venerable waiting.
• Sword Venerable said he would have reached the end already if the Emperor Road had not been opened specifically for Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin asked how long Sword Venerable had taken to complete the Emperor Road in his era, but Sword Venerable dismissed the question.
• Ye Lin entered the next vortex and found himself in a world covered with fragrant flowers.

Ye Lin encountered Flower Fairy, the immensely powerful being ranked second on the Hundred Heroes Ranking, and learned she wanted to fight him before allowing him to pass. Flower Fairy disappeared into the surrounding petals, and Ye Lin prepared to face her.

• Flower Fairy appeared before Ye Lin and introduced herself, surprising him with her strength and beauty.
• Ye Lin recognized Flower Fairy from the Hundred Heroes Ranking and recalled that legends said she would die miserably in the future.
• Flower Fairy read Ye Lin's expression, realized he foresaw her fate, and chose not to question him further.
• Flower Fairy sensed an innate lifeform within Ye Lin and challenged him to fight, saying he could pass if he won and would remain if he lost.
• Ye Lin summoned Azure Frost and reasoned that Flower Fairy was attaching herself to the flowers around him.

Ye Lin fought the Flower Fairy’s flower-filled trap, but petals fused with his skin and transformed him into a flowering tree. He freed himself with Infernal Prison Ice Flame and confronted the Flower Fairy again.

• Ye Lin destroyed the surrounding flowers with Sword Qi, then sliced apart Dragons made of petals with Azure Frost.
• Petals falling from the sky pierced Ye Lin and sprouted flowers across his body, eventually turning him into a tree.
• The Flower Fairy appeared, admired the fragrant flowers growing from Ye Lin, and left him to keep her company.
• Ye Lin sent Sword Qi at the Flower Fairy, then burned away the flowers with Infernal Prison Ice Flame and returned to normal.

Ye Lin used the Purgatory Ice Flame to destroy Flower Fairy’s law-formed flowers, forcing her to emerge and attack him. He then drew Azure Frost and unleashed the Grand Void Space-Rending Sword as she charged.

• Flower Fairy praised Ye Lin for breaking her spell and vanished, inviting him to keep playing with her.
• Ye Lin spread the Purgatory Ice Flame across the small world, burning Flower Fairy’s flowers into nothingness.
• Enraged by the destruction, Flower Fairy transformed into petals and swept toward Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin welcomed her anger, drew Azure Frost, and slashed at her with the Grand Void Space-Rending Sword.

Ye Lin battled Flower Fairy, using flames to destroy what he believed was her, but discovered the burning figure was only a petal-made incarnation. He countered her attack with his own external incarnation, leaving Flower Fairy gravely wounded and asking how he had seen through her deception.

• Ye Lin drove Flower Fairy back with Sword Qi until she erased it with petals.
• Ye Lin appeared behind Flower Fairy and trapped her in Purgatory Ice Flame, then sent a Karmic Fire Red Lotus after her.
• Flower Fairy revealed that the figure burning in the distance was a petal incarnation and attacked Ye Lin by making flowers bloom across his skin.
• Ye Lin revealed that he had also used an external incarnation, which struck Flower Fairy from behind and shattered her meridians and bones.
• Flower Fairy turned to Ye Lin and asked how he had discovered the deception.

Ye Lin saw through Flower Fairy’s disguise and defeated her by using a clone as bait, then entered the vortex expecting to face the Ancient Human Emperor. There, he reunited with Xuan Su.

• Ye Lin realized Flower Fairy’s apparent death had been a deception and concealed his true body while a clone drew her in.
• Ye Lin trapped Flower Fairy with Sword Qi, explaining that her eager performance had aroused his suspicions.
• Flower Fairy laughed as Ye Lin’s Sword Qi scattered her, and a vortex appeared.
• Ye Lin entered the vortex, anticipating the Ancient Human Emperor as his next opponent.
• Ye Lin found Xuan Su beside him, and she greeted him as they met again.

Ye Lin and Xuan Su learned the rules of the final trial, a deadly chase through enormous buildings where they would be hunted by powerful creatures. As the trial began, Xuan Su vanished, leaving Ye Lin to find the exit while avoiding both Hunters and the other contestants.

• Ye Lin thanked Xuan Su for helping him escape, and the two agreed that their repeated encounters showed they were fated to meet.
• Xuan Su explained that the trial was called Death Battle Royale and that contestants had to navigate the buildings to reach an exit.
• Xuan Su said the Heavenly Dao would suppress everyone to the early stage of Primordial Unity Golden Immortal, while peak-stage Hunters pursued them.
• Xuan Su warned Ye Lin that the other contestants would betray him and urged him to focus on finding the exit.
• Xuan Su disappeared as the group entered the trial.

Ye Lin found himself trapped in a sealed room with his cultivation suppressed, then escaped into a maze of streets where a hunter with a blood-red Sickle began pursuing him. He fled at full speed, with the hunter close behind.

• Ye Lin waited for the sealed door to open, then stepped into a street lined with buildings.
• Ye Lin used the alleys to move through the maze and spotted a black-robed hunter carrying a blood-red Sickle.
• Ye Lin briefly lost sight of the hunter, only for it to appear directly in front of him.
• Ye Lin fled down the street, and the hunter followed, relishing the chase.

Ye Lin mapped the maze while fleeing the black-robed pursuers, and Xuan Su failed to divine a shortcut after discovering the Heavenly Dao had blocked the secrets of heaven. The hundred Taiyi Golden Immortals were left searching for the exit by trial and error.

• Ye Lin explored the alleys and memorized their paths as he built a map of the maze.
• Ye Lin saw three black-robed figures hacking a young man with blood-red sickles, then left him behind.
• Ye Lin sensed at least three black-robed figures pursuing him and sped through the alleys to avoid being caught.
• Xuan Su tried to calculate a shortcut with a chessboard but found no route out because the Heavenly Dao had blocked the secrets of heaven.
• Xuan Su gave up on divining the exit, and the hundred Taiyi Golden Immortals hurried through the maze to search for it themselves.

Ye Lin realized that searching the maze for an exit could take an impossibly long time, so he considered using its hunters to find a way out. The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar confirmed the idea could work but pointed out that hunters moved, leaving Ye Lin without a way to pinpoint them.

• Ye Lin recognized that the maze’s branching paths made a straightforward search impractical, especially with eight pursuers behind him.
• Ye Lin asked the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar about the maze, and it explained that the Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord had escaped by spending three hundred years killing people and using Soul Search to piece together routes.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar wondered why the people Ye Lin had encountered seemed so weak despite keeping pace with his rapid progress.
• Ye Lin proposed locating the hunters guarding each area to find the exit, and the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar agreed the plan could work but noted that hunters changed locations when they moved.

Ye Lin used the Heavenly Traverse Pearl to find danger and speed through the hunters' territory, drawing a growing crowd of hunters behind him while helping those who followed his path. After covering half the distance, his Chaos power ran low and he put the pearl away, confident he could outrun the hunters while he recovered.

• Ye Lin used the Heavenly Traverse Pearl to locate danger and avoid detours, while more than a hundred hunters gathered in pursuit.
• Xuan Su followed Ye Lin's route and wondered why he had not encountered any hunters.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar warned Ye Lin that the hunters were closing in behind him.
• Ye Lin covered half the distance but ran low on Chaos power from using the pearl continuously.
• Ye Lin put away the Heavenly Traverse Pearl and insisted the hunters could not catch him.