Recaps

Ye Lin encountered Wang Zheng at the mountains where Abyss Gate was supposedly located and learned that Wang Zheng claimed to be one of its disciples. Wang Zheng had never seen the woman Ye Lin sought, but promised to keep watch for her as Ye Lin prepared to continue his search.

• Wang Zheng told Ye Lin that the Sacred Descent Sect had put out a warrant for him, forcing him to flee Buddha Prefecture.
• Ye Lin asked where Abyss Gate was, and Wang Zheng revealed that he was an Abyss Gate disciple.
• Ye Lin showed Wang Zheng a portrait of the woman he was seeking.
• Wang Zheng said he had never seen the woman but offered to look for her.
• Ye Lin thanked Wang Zheng and prepared to leave to continue his search.

Ye Lin reached the Holy Sword Sect after failing to find what he sought in the vast mountain ranges, and entered the sect to ask for help. Its elder revealed that the sect had existed in name only for a thousand years, with him as its sole remaining member.

• Ye Lin left Wang Zheng, and Wang Zheng accepted that they were not on the same path.
• Ye Lin searched the mountain ranges with his divine sense but found almost no life or other clues.
• Ye Lin spotted the floating island of the Holy Sword Sect and approached its golden barrier to seek help.
• An old man welcomed Ye Lin and Ye Xin into the sect and led them to a tea table beneath a peach tree.
• Ye Lin asked whether the old man was the only one there, and the old man said he was the Holy Sword Sect's sole remaining member.

Ye Lin visited the Holy Sword Sect, where its lone guardian told him he had waited more than 124,000 years for the woman who planted a peach tree to return when it bloomed. Ye Lin examined the living but barren tree and remained unable to explain why it had never flowered.

• Ye Lin realized the Holy Sword Sect had no disciples to help him search for someone, and the old man asked if he was disappointed.
• The old man explained that he guarded the sect because he was waiting for the woman who planted the peach tree to return when it bloomed.
• The old man revealed he had waited 124,533 years and 42 days, believing the woman would return after achieving fame and success.
• Ye Lin suggested that something might have happened to the woman or that she might have forgotten the old man, but the old man remained hopeful.
• Ye Lin examined the peach tree and found it full of life despite its bare branches, while the old man said it was an ordinary tree he had studied many times.

Ye Lin failed to discover why the peach tree would not bloom, then continued searching for someone across Liuli Commandery. He sent out avatars to scout, settled in a mountain cave to cultivate with a white pearl, and left Ye Xin to guard him.

• Ye Lin examined the peach tree and found nothing unusual, then bid farewell to the old man.
• Ye Lin scattered countless Primordial Unity Golden Immortal avatars across Liuli Commandery to search for people.
• Ye Lin traveled to a mountain range and decided to wait for his avatars and Zhang Ling'er while cultivating.
• Ye Lin entered a cave with Ye Xin guarding him and began absorbing the energy of the white pearl.
• Many of Ye Lin's avatars were killed as they searched across the Origin Continent.

Ye Lin stopped refining the white pearl when his body neared saturation and planned to seek further lectures on laws. Most of his avatars had been killed by exotic beasts, and the survivors had not found the person he was looking for.

• Ye Lin reflected on the dangers Primordial Unity Golden Immortals faced on the Origin Continent and the greater chances it offered to reach the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
• After refining the white pearl for a month, Ye Lin found that most of its energy remained.
• Ye Lin stopped refining the pearl because his body was nearing saturation and further cultivation could damage his foundation.
• Ye Lin decided to attend more lectures, since comprehending and applying laws mattered more than simply absorbing resources.
• Ye Lin learned that most of his avatars had died to exotic beasts and the survivors had not found the person he sought.

Ye Lin continued searching for the person in the portrait and received word from Zhang Ling'er that she had found someone who looked exactly like him. When Ye Lin reached her location, he found a scorched wasteland where humans and strange beasts lived without any cultivation, leaving him puzzled about how mortals could survive on the Origin Continent.

• Ye Lin decided to search for one more year before giving up on finding the missing person.
• Zhang Ling'er told Ye Lin that she had found someone who looked exactly like the person in the portrait, though she seemed troubled.
• Ye Lin set off immediately after Zhang Ling'er gave him her location.
• Ye Lin arrived at a vast blackened wasteland and saw humans and strange beasts living together there without cultivation.

Ye Lin followed Zhang Ling'er beneath the scorched earth and found a woman imprisoned on a platform by chains and a nail that sealed her Primordial Spirit. He tried to find out whether she could hear him.

• Ye Lin landed on the strange scorched earth and sensed a suppressive force, but could not find Zhang Ling'er among the lifeless-looking inhabitants.
• Zhang Ling'er appeared with Luo Yao and led Ye Lin across the scorched earth, saying the person he sought was below.
• Ye Lin entered a pitch-black opening and descended through increasingly cold, gloomy air.
• Ye Lin reached a platform and saw a bloodstained woman in white, bound by rune-covered chains with a nail driven into her forehead.
• Ye Lin asked the imprisoned woman whether she could hear him.

Ye Lin found the woman who resembled the old man's granddaughter, but Zhang Ling'er said she was trapped by powerful restraints and could not be freed. The old man recognized her and, seeing her suffering, asked Ye Lin to end her life.

• Ye Lin sensed that the motionless woman was alive and asked whether she needed help.
• Zhang Ling'er said she could neither break the special chains nor remove the restrictions without killing the woman.
• Ye Lin used the Jade Talisman to summon the old man, who recognized the woman as his granddaughter.
• The old man cursed the person responsible for trapping her in the Ten Thousand Locks Heart-Devouring Array and tried, unsuccessfully, to reach her.
• The old man thanked Ye Lin and asked him to end his granddaughter's suffering.

Ye Lin read the diary of the dying girl after granting her release, learning how she had fallen in love with her senior brother and sacrificed herself to protect him from a powerful enemy. The diary revealed that a peach tree in her senior brother’s dojo would bloom only upon her death, and Ye Lin left with the truth of her final goodbye.

• The old man gave Ye Lin the trade card password and entrusted him with the secret realm before dissolving into the Void.
• Ye Lin used Sword Qi to destroy the girl’s Primordial Spirit and end her suffering, then found her diary nearby.
• Ye Lin and Zhang Ling'er read how the girl had grown up on Peach Blossom Island, lost her master, and stayed behind with her senior brother to keep vigil.
• The diary revealed that the girl’s Perception Marks warned of a powerful expert approaching, so she became Dao companions with her senior brother and enjoyed a brief time together.
• The girl wrote that she had lied about leaving to seek a breakthrough and planted a peach tree linked to her Fate Heart, which would bloom only after her death.

Ye Lin read about the woman’s tragic love and carried her restored corpse toward the Holy Sword Sect to show Zhang Ling’er what true love looked like. He left the story unresolved as he set out to find the woman’s senior brother, who had waited for her for 120,000 years.

• Ye Lin finished reading the diary and suspected that the woman’s senior brother from the Holy Sword Sect had been waiting for her.
• Zhang Ling’er and Luo Yao cried over the story, while Ye Lin severed the woman’s limbs and neck, then restored her body without bringing her back to life.
• Zhang Ling’er mistook Ye Lin’s actions for a strange fetish, and Ye Lin told her to stop imagining things.
• Ye Lin led Zhang Ling’er and Luo Yao back to the surface and found that the short buildings and living creatures had vanished.
• Ye Lin told Zhang Ling’er he would show her true love and headed toward the Holy Sword Sect, reflecting on the tragedy of the woman’s promise and her senior brother’s long wait.

Ye Lin brought Zhang Ling'er and Luo Yao to the Holy Sword Sect as the peach blossoms bloomed, where a young man waited for the woman who had promised to return. After reading her diary, he learned the truth and asked Ye Lin where she was.

• Ye Lin arrived at the Holy Sword Sect with Zhang Ling'er and Luo Yao and found the peach tree in full bloom.
• The white-haired young man rejoiced, believing the woman who had promised to return would soon come back.
• Ye Lin showed the young man the woman's diary, and the young man read it in tears.
• The young man asked where the woman was, and Ye Lin revealed her icy corpse from the mist.

Ye Lin, Zhang Ling'er, and Luo Yao left the island as a heartbroken young man embraced a corpse and died with the island. Ye Lin remained unmoved and continued toward the Origin Chamber of Commerce to deposit his eighty million transaction points, while Zhang Ling'er challenged his claim that he had no heart.

• The young man told Ye Lin to leave, and Ye Lin departed with Zhang Ling'er and Luo Yao after patting him on the shoulder.
• Once they were gone, the young man embraced the corpse as peach blossoms engulfed the island, which exploded and vanished along with him.
• Ye Lin concluded that the young man had died for love, while Zhang Ling'er wondered aloud whether this was love.
• Ye Lin headed toward the Origin Chamber of Commerce to deposit his eighty million transaction points, and Zhang Ling'er criticized him for showing no empathy.
• Ye Lin said that experience had made him cold, and Zhang Ling'er argued that cultivators who followed the Dao of Heartlessness only suppressed their emotions rather than truly casting them aside.

Ye Lin and Zhang Ling'er reached the Origin Chamber of Commerce in Liuli Commandery, where Ye Lin went to transfer the transaction points from the old man's card to his own. The young attendant began processing the cards after asking for their passwords.

• Zhang Ling'er doubted Ye Lin had truly cultivated the Path of Heartlessness.
• Ye Lin promised Zhang Ling'er he would pay her ten million transaction points for finding the person.
• Ye Lin and Zhang Ling'er traveled to the Origin Chamber of Commerce in Liuli Commandery.
• Ye Lin entered the chamber and found the branch that handled transaction cards.
• Ye Lin gave the attendant his card and the old man's card to transfer all the points between them.

Ye Lin transferred the transaction points from a card, ending up with over ninety-four million, and gave Zhang Ling'er ten million. Before leaving, he also gave Luo Yao a card with one million points and had her bind it to herself.

• Ye Lin gave the card password to the Origin Chamber of Commerce clerk, who transferred ninety-four million, three hundred and twenty thousand transaction points to Ye Lin's card.
• Ye Lin asked the clerk to make Zhang Ling'er a transaction card and transfer ten million points to it.
• Ye Lin left the chamber with Zhang Ling'er, then returned to give Luo Yao a card containing one million transaction points.
• Ye Lin told Luo Yao to bind the card with a drop of blood, and Luo Yao sent a drop of water from her forehead into it.

Ye Lin left the Mission Pavilion and set out with Zhang Ling'er and Ye Xin to find a secluded place to study and cultivate. Zhang Ling'er detected four followers in the void, and Ye Lin learned that one was a first-level Quasi-Saint while the other three were peak Daluo Golden Immortals.

• Ye Lin learned that the Mission Pavilion offered missions for earning transaction points, then left without taking one.
• Ye Lin decided to buy lectures about Daluo Golden Immortals and find a secluded mountain range for cultivation.
• Ye Lin, Zhang Ling'er, and Ye Xin flew away to search for a suitable place to enter seclusion.
• Zhang Ling'er sensed that a Quasi-Saint and three peak Daluo Golden Immortals were following them, and Ye Lin asked about their cultivation.

Ye Lin and his companions were ambushed by a Quasi-Saint First Heaven cultivator and three peak Great Luo Golden Immortals sent to kill him over the woman he had rescued. Zhang Ling'er confronted the old man while Ye Lin fought the three women, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Ye Lin trusted Zhang Ling'er's warning and led the group toward a secluded place without alerting their pursuers.
• An old man emerged from the Void with three sword-bearing women and revealed that they had been sent to kill Ye Lin for taking a woman away.
• Zhang Ling'er passed Luo Yao to Ye Xin and stepped forward to fight the old man.
• Ye Lin told Ye Xin to protect Luo Yao, summoned two swords, and charged at the three women.
• The women introduced themselves as Heart One, Heart Two, and Heart Three, then surrounded Ye Lin as he lunged at Heart One.

Ye Lin fought Heart One, Heart Two, and Heart Three, three peak Daluo Golden Immortals, and overcame their coordinated attacks despite being at the late stage. The sisters recognized his strength and no longer underestimated him.

• Heart One, Heart Two, and Heart Three surrounded Ye Lin and launched a coordinated attack.
• Heart One blocked Ye Lin’s sword strike, then the sisters formed a triangular formation and unleashed their sword laws.
• Ye Lin used Azure Frost to slow the stellar sword threads and earthen Dragons, then struck Heart Three’s hidden sword with the Godslayer Sword.
• Ye Lin knocked Heart Three out of her stream of light and shattered the sisters’ remaining attacks.
• The three sisters watched Ye Lin warily, realizing he had held the advantage in their first clash.

Ye Lin fused the three moves of the Grand Void Space-Rending Sword into one strike and shattered Heart One, Heart Two, and Heart Three’s formation. The three women were injured and left stunned as Ye Lin stood in the center of the storm.

• Heart One, Heart Two, and Heart Three combined their laws into a colossal sword and pressed it down on Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin sent Xinyou away, then fused all three moves of the Grand Void Space-Rending Sword and struck back with everything he had.
• Ye Lin’s strike shattered the colossal sword and sent a destructive energy storm across the surrounding land.
• Heart One, Heart Two, and Heart Three spat out golden blood as their formation broke and their auras withered.
• Heart One shouted in disbelief at Ye Lin’s victory.

Ye Lin shattered the Three Talents Grand Formation head-on, then launched a three-pronged attack against the three women while hiding the injuries he had sustained. Xiaoyao’s sword technique overwhelmed Heart One, leaving her facing a devastating strike.

• Ye Lin broke the Three Talents Grand Formation through a direct collision, though he suffered serious injuries and concealed the blood in his mouth.
• Ye Lin praised the three women’s strength, then split into three figures and charged at them with his swords.
• Heart One dismissed Xiaoyao as a weak clone and attacked him.
• Xiaoyao summoned a sword and struck Heart One with Great River Sword Qi, sending her flying.
• Xiaoyao invoked a sword technique combining heaven, earth, mountains, and rivers, and the force of its descending Sword Qi reduced the ground beneath Heart One to ruins.

Xiaoyao defeated and killed Heart One, destroying her Primordial Spirit after she asked about his supposed clone technique. Heart Two and Heart Three remained locked in battle with Ye Lin, unaware that their elder sister was dead.

• Xiaoyao repeatedly struck Heart One with Great River Sword Qi, reducing the ruins to rubble and leaving her badly wounded.
• Xiaoyao cleared away the dust and found Heart One lying in the ruins with her Long Sword beside her.
• Heart One asked Xiaoyao what clone technique he used, and he replied that he had always been himself.
• Xiaoyao killed Heart One with countless streaks of sword qi, tearing apart her Primordial Spirit.
• Heart Two and Heart Three continued fighting Ye Lin, unaware that Heart One had died.

Ye Lin and his clones defeated Heart Two and Heart Three, though he was secretly injured by the fight. As the battle ended, the old man admitted he could not defeat Zhang Ling'er.

• Delusion froze Heart Two briefly, allowing Lin Xian to batter her before Delusion destroyed her head and Primordial Spirit.
• Ye Lin defeated Heart Three with his long sword, and all three women fell.
• Ye Lin recalled Ye Xiu's talent and kept walking after his clones returned to him.
• The old man wiped blood from his mouth and told Zhang Ling'er he could not defeat her despite cultivating for hundreds of millions of years.

Zhang Ling'er killed the old man despite his warning that stronger enemies would come after her. She rejoined Ye Lin and told him to prepare for trouble, though she said she was not afraid.

• Zhang Ling'er rejected the old man's offer to protect her from future enemies and thrust her sword at him.
• The old man accepted his death, and Zhang Ling'er killed him instantly without causing him pain.
• Zhang Ling'er returned to Ye Lin and told him that stronger existences might come looking for them.
• Zhang Ling'er said she was not afraid but warned Ye Lin to prepare.

Ye Lin took Luo Yao and Ye Xin to hide in a secluded mountain gorge after escaping an interception, while a mysterious figure berated the failed pursuers. The group found a cave for seclusion, and Ye Lin’s suppressed injuries remained a pressing concern.

• Ye Lin dismissed Zhang Ling'er's threats, left the ruins with Luo Yao and Ye Xin, and resolved to recover in seclusion.
• After they departed, a terrifying pressure descended over the ruins, and an unseen figure condemned the pursuers for their failure.
• Ye Lin led the group to a gorge in a mountain range protected by an earth vein, which Zhang Ling'er explained was an excellent hiding place.
• Ye Lin entered the gorge with a trace of blood at his mouth, revealing that his injuries were difficult to suppress.
• Ye Lin found a large cave with three man-made chambers inside.

Ye Lin recovered from his injuries in a cave, then used his transaction card to attend Bing Ruoxin’s course on the late stage of the Daluo Golden Immortal realm. He listened closely as her teachings deepened his understanding of the Sword Dao.

• Ye Lin chose a chamber in the cave to heal while Zhang Ling'er and Luo Yao studied the transaction card, and Ye Xin guarded the entrance.
• After a month, Ye Lin recovered from his physical injuries with the help of the Spirit King’s treasures.
• Ye Lin used his transaction card to enter the mysterious space and open the late-stage Daluo Golden Immortal course.
• Bing Ruoxin explained her Dao and warned Ye Lin not to imitate or learn it.
• Ye Lin listened intently as the lesson gave him new insights into the Sword Dao.

Nangong Xuanyi returned to find Ye Xin guarding his cave while someone inside cultivated, and he failed to persuade Ye Xin to let him in. After watching the cave for three months, Nangong Xuanyi was still waiting when Little Dot appeared beside him.

• Nangong Xuanyi asked Ye Xin to let him enter his cave, but Ye Xin said someone inside was cultivating and refused.
• Nangong Xuanyi angrily threatened to call on his connections and left.
• Ye Xin stayed at the cave entrance while Nangong Xuanyi watched from the distant mountains for three months.
• Little Dot appeared beside Nangong Xuanyi and asked why he was lying there.