Recaps

Ye Lin and his companions followed Master Brahma Sound through Buddha Prefecture to Mara Temple, where they reunited with Wang Mingyang. Wang Mingyang asked Ye Lin how the difficult journey had felt.

• Three cultivators stopped Ye Lin and his companions to demand proof of identity, but Master Brahma Sound identified them as guests of Mara Temple's abbot and let them pass.
• Ye Lin and the others followed Master Brahma Sound for three hours until they reached Mara Temple, where the chants and fragrance calmed Ye Lin's agitation.
• Wang Mingyang welcomed Ye Lin and Zhang Ling'er in a small courtyard, and Ye Lin thanked him for helping them.
• Wang Mingyang covertly slipped something into Master Brahma Sound's robes, and the monk departed.
• Wang Mingyang asked Ye Lin how the journey had felt, and Ye Lin replied that it had not been easy.

Wang Mingyang explained how his family learned of the Buddhist Sect gathering through an old connection and warned Ye Lin to respect the sect’s true mighty experts. Ye Lin agreed, saying he had always shown deference to those stronger than himself.

• Wang Mingyang welcomed Ye Lin and Luo Yao after their long journey and affectionately pinched Luo Yao’s cheeks.
• Ye Lin asked why Wang Mingyang had arrived early, and Wang Mingyang explained that his family had ties to the Buddhist Sect through an ancestor who saved a mighty expert’s friend’s child.
• Wang Mingyang clarified that the child was not the mighty expert’s own child and said the connection had saved the Wang Family by giving them advance warning.
• Wang Mingyang cautioned Ye Lin to show respect to true Buddhist Sect mighty experts, regardless of his past encounters with Buddhist monks.
• Ye Lin agreed and said that he had always been humble and respectful toward powerful figures.

Ye Lin showed Wang Mingyang the Cosmos Seal, which the Spirit King had lent him, and Wang Mingyang gave Ye Lin and his companions Identity Tokens. The group received the tokens without having to pay a fortune, and Ye Lin left with Wang Mingyang’s help while Zhang Ling'er remained confused.

• Wang Mingyang noticed the Cosmos Seal and asked Ye Lin about it.
• Ye Lin explained that the Spirit King had lent him the Cosmos Seal, and Wang Mingyang remarked on their close relationship.
• Wang Mingyang gave the group four Identity Tokens and hung one at Luo Yao’s waist.
• Ye Lin recognized his Identity Token with a drop of blood and thanked Wang Mingyang for his help.
• Zhang Ling'er listened to their exchange without understanding what they were discussing.

Ye Lin arrived with Zhang Ling'er at the Wang Family’s safe residence while chaos raged across Buddha Prefecture. He planned to return the Cosmos Seal to the Spirit King and was advised to stay inside for several days, or wait ten years before venturing out.

• Wang Mingyang asked Ye Lin about Zhang Ling'er, and Ye Lin introduced her as someone he had met on the way.
• Ye Lin decided he no longer feared traveling with Zhang Ling'er, since Luo Yao could protect him and Zhang Ling'er’s presence had brought him valuable opportunities.
• Wang Mingyang warned Ye Lin that Buddha Prefecture was in turmoil and offered him a safe place to stay.
• Ye Lin agreed to rest at the residence while planning to return the Cosmos Seal to the Spirit King.
• Wang Mingyang advised Ye Lin to avoid going outside for ten years, by which time the situation might have stabilized.

Ye Lin learned that even powerful figures did not know why Heaven Province was being abandoned, though Wang Mingyang shared a dangerous rumor about the Saint’s worsening injuries. Ye Lin settled on staying in Buddha Prefecture for now and planned to visit the secret realm to return the Cosmos Seal and seek help with the memories disturbing his mind.

• Ye Lin asked Wang Mingyang why Heaven Province was being abandoned, and Wang Mingyang said the decision came from the highest powers.
• Wang Mingyang privately told Ye Lin and Zhang Ling'er a rumor that the Saint’s injuries had worsened and the evacuation was meant to hold the Chaos Ancient Clan in check.
• Wang Mingyang took Luo Yao away to show her around, while Ye Lin told the others to choose a nearby courtyard and stay there.
• Ye Lin decided to visit the secret realm to return the Cosmos Seal and ask the Spirit King to erase the unfamiliar memories troubling him.

Ye Lin entered the secret realm to meet the Spirit King, but learned that he had gone to the forbidden grounds and settled in a manor to wait. Unable to meditate because of the strange memories in his mind, Ye Lin decided to ask the Spirit King for help when he returned.

• Ye Lin used his Identity Token to enter the secret realm and headed for the White King Palace.
• Zhang Ling'er gathered the power of laws and said that the opportunity to break through to the Quasi-Saint realm had arrived.
• A middle-aged man told Ye Lin that the Spirit King had gone to the forbidden grounds to speak with the ancestor, then led him to a manor to wait.
• Ye Lin tried to meditate with the Cosmos Seal but could not quiet the bizarre memories surfacing in his mind.
• Ye Lin gave up meditating and decided to ask the Spirit King whether he knew a way to deal with the memories.

Ye Lin told Spirit King that he had taken Silent Ridge and captured a weakened Dragon Soul, then asked for help with the memories tormenting him whenever he tried to cultivate. The chapter ended as Spirit King and the old man listened to Ye Lin explain his trouble.

• Ye Lin spent a month resisting memories that surfaced whenever he closed his eyes, leaving him unable to cultivate.
• Spirit King arrived and apologized for keeping Ye Lin waiting while he spoke with the ancestors.
• Ye Lin reported taking Silent Ridge and handed Spirit King the Cosmos Seal containing a Dragon Soul that had once been at the seventh level of the Quasi-Saint realm.
• Spirit King praised Ye Lin, noticed his pale complexion, and asked what was wrong.
• Ye Lin said he had encountered a major problem, and Spirit King sat down with him to hear the details.

Ye Lin told the Spirit King that memories from a Bronze Immortal Hall had overwhelmed him for three months, but the Spirit King could not remove them. He advised Ye Lin to stop resisting the memories and let time help him absorb them.

• Ye Lin explained that he had acquired unfamiliar memories in a Bronze Immortal Hall and that they surged into his mind whenever he closed his eyes.
• The Spirit King deduced that Ye Lin had inherited memory fragments from a supreme expert but admitted he could not solve the problem.
• The Spirit King said Ye Lin might absorb the fragments himself or ask a Saint for help, and that mastering them could become a fortuitous opportunity.
• Ye Lin said he had tried to absorb the memories for three months but could not control the scenes when they appeared.
• The Spirit King advised Ye Lin to immerse himself in the memory scenes and let time wear down the fragments instead of resisting them.

Ye Lin followed the Spirit King's advice and entered the memories instead of resisting them. He witnessed Ye Xiu's lonely battle against countless enemies and heard him reveal that immortals and the Immortal World were lies.

• The Spirit King advised Ye Lin to comprehend and claim the memory fragments, warning that resisting them would prolong his torment.
• After the Spirit King left, Ye Lin closed his eyes and entered the first memory, choosing to experience it as a journey.
• Ye Lin witnessed Ye Xiu charge alone into battle against enemies covering the earth and sky, fighting until none remained.
• Standing atop a mountain of corpses, Ye Xiu recounted his rapid rise in cultivation and declared that immortals and ascension were lies.

Ye Lin witnessed scenes from Ye Xiu’s life, from his vow to slaughter those who harmed ordinary people to his rise as a powerful cultivator and his deep love for a woman. The chapter left Ye Xiu holding his dying beloved on the Origin Continent, terrified and vowing that no one would take her away.

• Ye Xiu declared that he would prove his Dao through slaughter after rejecting the idea that immortality was possible.
• Ye Xiu entered the Immortal Realm and fell in love with a woman, promising to kill anyone who forced her to leave him.
• Ye Lin watched hundreds of scenes of Ye Xiu and the woman traveling, fighting, and growing closer together.
• Ye Xiu reached the Great Luo realm in ten thousand years and later rose to the ninth level of the Quasi-Saint realm on the Origin Continent.
• As Ye Xiu prepared to enter the Saint realm, the woman lay in his arms, badly wounded, and said that heaven and earth could no longer contain her.
• Ye Xiu insisted that no one could take the woman away from him.

Ye Lin witnessed Ye Xiu lose his Dao Heart after Yun'er dissolved into the void, leaving him to spend his days mourning at her grave. A spirit of the earth vein emerged to complain about Ye Xiu's constant wailing, but Ye Xiu dismissed him and went back to sleep.

• Ye Xiu watched Yun'er dissolve into the void and unleashed devastating power as he roared in grief.
• Ye Xiu later sat beside Yun'er's gravestone, drank wine, and said he would stay with her forever.
• Ye Lin observed the scene and concluded that the tribulation of love had ruined Ye Xiu, a ninth-level Quasi-Saint.
• A spirit of the earth vein emerged from beneath the earth and scolded Ye Xiu for disturbing his sleep.
• Ye Xiu told the spirit to stop meddling, then closed his eyes again.

Ye Xiu mourned Yun’er, convinced that the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth would not allow her to exist, while an old man urged him to grow strong enough to defy it. After the old man left, Ye Lin realized that he had noticed him and suspected he was a powerful expert.

• The old man questioned why Ye Xiu, a ninth-layer Quasi-Saint, could not save Yun’er.
• Ye Xiu said the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth rejected Yun’er’s existence and that even Saints could not help her.
• The old man urged Ye Xiu to keep cultivating until he could stand against the Great Dao, then told him to stop mourning there if he would not listen.
• The old man walked away with his cane and gave Ye Lin a glance as he vanished.
• Ye Lin concluded that the old man had seen him and was likely a heaven-reaching expert.

Ye Xiu regained his Dao Heart and resolved to become stronger, then fought across the Origin Continent to temper his invincible heart. He became the target of a continent-wide hunt, while the Saints watched without intervening.

• Ye Xiu restored his Dao Heart and set becoming stronger as his goal.
• Ye Xiu fought powerful figures as he reclaimed his former strength.
• Over ten thousand years, Ye Xiu challenged ninth-level Quasi-Saints, killing those who refused to submit and forcing those who yielded to abandon their Saint paths.
• Powerful figures across the Origin Continent joined forces to hunt Ye Xiu.
• Seventh-level Quasi-Saints and above attacked Ye Xiu wherever they found him, while the Saints did nothing to stop them.

After surviving a three-thousand-year manhunt, Ye Xiu had become a feared Sword Dao God of Slaughter, and no one on the Origin Continent dared challenge him. He stood just one step from the Saint realm but could not figure out how to make the breakthrough.

• The powerhouses refrained from interfering with Ye Xiu’s fate, wary of the karma they might incur.
• Ye Xiu roamed the Origin Continent with his sword and wine, killing the powerhouses who pursued him.
• The manhunt continued for three thousand years until the survivors stopped trying to hunt Ye Xiu down.
• Ye Lin witnessed Ye Xiu’s long path of killing and saw his terrifying killing intent grow strong enough to shatter a Daluo Golden Immortal’s Primordial Spirit.
• Ye Xiu reached the brink of the Saint realm but felt lost because he did not know how to take the final step.

Ye Xiu became a saint after venturing alone into the Boundary Sea, then returned to the Origin Continent and left again after realizing why its other saints had avoided him. Ye Lin learned that Ye Xiu had reached the Saint Realm at just two hundred thousand years old as more scenes of Ye Xiu’s past appeared.

• Ye Xiu failed to meet any of the saints on the Origin Continent, so he gave up searching and entered the depths of the Boundary Sea alone.
• Ye Lin saw a later scene in which Ye Xiu had become a saint and returned to the Origin Continent with overwhelming power.
• Ye Xiu sensed other saints hidden on the Origin Continent and understood why they had not guided him, then departed forever.
• Ye Lin heard that Ye Xiu had entered the Saint Realm at two hundred thousand years old and was stunned by his cultivation speed and recovered Dao Heart.
• More scenes of Ye Xiu’s past appeared before Ye Lin.

Ye Lin watched Ye Xiu leave the Boundary Sea and wander through a strange realm before arriving at the Primordial Continent, which Ye Lin recognized as the place where his destiny said he would die. The chapter ended with Ye Xiu wondering whether the Primordial Continent could grant him the power to revive Yun'er.

• Ye Xiu left the Boundary Sea and explored an unfamiliar realm whose powerful spatial barriers suggested that beings beyond Sainthood existed.
• After wandering for over a hundred years without finding anyone, Ye Xiu became frustrated when the landscape seemed unchanged no matter how far he traveled.
• Ye Xiu appeared in a white palace, where cultivators welcomed him to the Primordial Continent, calling it the pinnacle of the Dao.
• Ye Lin recognized the Primordial Continent from his destiny, which said he would eventually die there at the hands of a mysterious powerhouse.
• Ye Xiu wondered whether the Primordial Continent could let him reach the supreme position and revive Yun'er.

Ye Xiu learned the cultivation hierarchy of the Primordial Continent, where Dao Masters governed the Three Thousand Great Daos and stood above Saints. He realized the road ahead was immense, while the man below explained that only three thousand Dao Masters could exist and their positions were rarely relinquished.

• The man below told Ye Xiu that the Primordial Continent was the origin of all things and the myriad laws of the Dao.
• The man below explained that Origin was the Saint realm, followed above by Origin Limitless, Dao Inquiry, and Dao Master, with Saints like ants before those higher realms.
• Ye Lin assessed the hierarchy and mapped out the path from quasi-Saint through Origin, Origin Limitless, and Dao Inquiry to Dao Master.
• Ye Xiu acknowledged that Saints were not the end and that his road ahead remained long.
• The man below reassured Ye Xiu that Saints stood at the summit for most cultivators and explained that only three thousand Dao Masters could exist, with a position opening only if its holder died or relinquished it.

Ye Xiu asked whether he could become a Dao Lord and learned that the Primordial Continent had fixed numbers of Hunyuan Wuji, Seekers of Dao, and Dao Lords. He was told he could only compete for a Hunyuan Wuji position if one became vacant, and the experts urged him to learn the Primordial Continent’s rules.

• Ye Xiu asked the gathered experts whether he was qualified to become a Dao Lord so he could bring Yun'er back to life.
• The experts told Ye Xiu that he could not become a Dao Lord, a Seeker of Dao, or even Hunyuan Wuji.
• Ye Xiu rejected their explanation that other Saints matched his talent and demanded to know why he could not reach Hunyuan Wuji.
• A cultivator explained that the Primordial Continent had fixed totals of three thousand Dao Lords, ten thousand Seekers of Dao, and eighteen thousand Hunyuan Wuji.
• The cultivator said Ye Xiu could contend for a Hunyuan Wuji position only if one became vacant, and urged him to learn the Primordial Continent’s rules.

Ye Xiu traveled through the Primordial Continent and found that even the strongest cultivators had abandoned conflict and ambition. Their resignation challenged his goals of becoming a Dao Master and reviving Yun'er, leaving him dumbfounded by their indifference to disputes and anger.

• Ye Xiu left the main hall and cursed the limits placed on cultivation and the lack of hope for reviving Yun'er.
• Ye Lin watched the scene and set aside his irritation, recognizing that he was not yet strong enough to worry about such matters.
• Ye Xiu traveled across the Primordial Continent and found Saints, Hunyuan Wuji, and Dao-Seeking cultivators running shops and stalls in a peaceful society.
• Ye Xiu grew numb to the cultivators' belief that one should follow circumstance and began to feel his Dao heart waver.
• Ye Xiu watched a Dao Inquiry realm expert accept a Saint's insults and slap without anger, then heard him dismiss disputes, anger, and killing.

Ye Xiu despaired after learning that advancement in the Primordial Continent was constrained by the fixed number of powerful beings, and he considered sacrificing himself to the Dao rather than enduring an endless wait. As Ye Xiu’s Dao heart began to crack, Ye Lin nearly fell into the same despair but steadied himself.

• Ye Xiu questioned whether he could advance any further after learning that all eighteen thousand Hun Yuan Wuji positions were occupied and that reaching the Dao Master realm could take immeasurable time.
• Ye Xiu wondered whether he should keep cultivating to revive Yun'er, fearing that he would forget her before he became a Dao Master.
• Ye Xiu decided that sacrificing himself to the Dao might be better than continuing to live, and the laws around him began to collapse as his Dao heart cracked.
• Ye Lin was affected by Ye Xiu’s despair and nearly considered giving up on cultivation himself.
• Ye Lin regulated his emotions, steadied his Dao heart, and opened his eyes with lingering fear.

Ye Lin witnessed a memory of Ye Xiu facing countless powerful enemies who demanded he cripple his cultivation, and watched Ye Xiu choose to fight instead. The clash overwhelmed Ye Lin, leaving him unable to observe the battle.

• Ye Lin saw a scene of Ye Xiu surrounded by countless figures, though the memory skipped how Ye Xiu had reached that moment.
• The figures demanded that Ye Xiu cripple his cultivation and warned that defeat would mean his true spirit was trapped in the Bitter Sea, reliving the same day forever.
• Ye Xiu accepted the consequences, drew his Long Sword, and charged at the attackers.
• A terrifying explosion and flashes of light overwhelmed Ye Lin, who sealed off his six senses because he could not watch the battle.

Ye Lin watched Ye Xiu’s memories reveal that the Bronze Immortal Hall was a primordial treasure and that Ye Xiu planned to gather sixty Divine Lords. The next scene showed Ye Xiu demanding that an injured Hunyuan Wuji powerhouse submit, but the man refused.

• Ye Lin returned to a memory of Ye Xiu cultivating in an empty Bronze Immortal Hall and recognized it as the hall he had visited.
• Ye Xiu called the Bronze Immortal Hall a primordial treasure above the Great Dao and said it would help him become a Dao Master.
• Ye Xiu calculated that the hall needed sixty Divine Lords, but finding Hunyuan Wuji experts would be difficult because he was only at the Hunyuan level.
• Ye Lin watched the memory shift to Ye Xiu confronting an injured middle-aged man and offering to spare him if he joined the sixty Divine Lords.
• The middle-aged man rejected Ye Xiu’s demand to submit.

Ye Lin watched memories of Ye Xiu coercing the Sixty Divine Lords into serving him and assembling them in the Bronze Immortal Hall. The scene ended with Ye Xiu dismissing the promised Dao Inquiry realm as a lie.

• Ye Xiu threatened to disgrace the middle-aged man and his relatives until the man agreed to follow him as Divine Lord Shanglin.
• Ye Lin watched several dozen scenes of Ye Xiu subduing Divine Lords and realized they were the sixty statues in the Bronze Immortal Hall.
• Ye Xiu welcomed the Sixty Divine Lords and ordered them to serve him in exchange for access to the hall’s wonders.
• A Divine Lord asked whether Ye Xiu’s promise that they could enter the Dao Inquiry realm still stood, and Ye Xiu called the realm a lie.

Ye Lin watched the remaining visions of Ye Xiu, including one in which Ye Xiu comprehended a sword technique that Ye Lin could not understand or remember. In the final vision, Ye Xiu stood on the verge of becoming a Dao Lord and set out to speak with the current Sword Dao Lord.

• Ye Lin realized that watching the images to their ends would free him from their influence, though he worried about the risks of learning too much.
• Ye Lin watched Ye Xiu practice swordsmanship in a canyon, but he could neither understand nor memorize his movements.
• Ye Xiu laughed after comprehending a sword technique, and the image shattered before Ye Lin could learn what it was.
• Ye Lin saw Ye Xiu standing among the Great Daos with three familiar figures behind him.
• One of Ye Xiu's disciples urged him to kill the current Sword Dao Lord, but Ye Xiu dismissed the idea as too difficult and went to speak with the Dao Lord instead.

Ye Xiu, now the Sword Dao Master, asked Old Man Creation to find Liu Yun'er and learned she had been created from one of the old man's thoughts. After reuniting with her, Ye Xiu carried her away, determined never to let her leave his side.

• Ye Lin watched a new scene reveal that Ye Xiu had become the Sword Dao Master and commanded the Great Dao of the Sword.
• Ye Xiu asked Old Man Creation to find Liu Yun'er and gave him her sachet as a token.
• Old Man Creation recognized Liu Yun'er as someone created by one of his thoughts and summoned her behind Ye Xiu.
• Ye Xiu embraced Liu Yun'er, who seemed to have lost some memories, and promised never to let her leave his side.
• Ye Xiu thanked Old Man Creation and carried Liu Yun'er away.