Recaps

Le Chuan attacked Sky Vault Venerable, but a terrifying aura swept across the Star River Cosmos and summoned a blood-robed man. The man's single glance destroyed Le Chuan, leaving the Primordial Unity Golden Immortals to recognize that the God of Slaughter had returned.

• Le Chuan struck at Sky Vault Venerable with the power of laws.
• A terrifying aura spread through the Star River Cosmos, alarming the Primordial Unity Golden Immortals hidden in the river of time.
• A tall, white-haired man in blood-red robes appeared before Le Chuan.
• The man glanced at Le Chuan, causing his laws and cultivation to collapse as he vomited blood and fell backward.
• Le Chuan cried out that he could not die, then disintegrated into nothingness.

Ye Lin effortlessly killed Le Chuan and saved the Void Clan, but Sky Vault Venerable treated him with formal distance. Ye Lin left a space cultivation technique behind, ending their remaining ties and leaving Sky Vault to reflect on how far his former junior had surpassed him.

• Ye Lin killed Le Chuan with a glance, erasing him from time and space and terrifying the Primordial Unity Golden Immortals who witnessed it.
• Ye Lin healed Sky Vault Venerable and thanked him for their past connection, but Sky Vault addressed him as Senior Ye Lin and kept his distance.
• Ye Lin declared that the blood essence he had given Sky Vault had been used and that they no longer shared any karma.
• Ye Lin left Sky Vault a jade talisman containing a space cultivation technique and departed, taking his blood essence with him.
• Sky Vault Venerable lamented that his former junior would never return and warned his clan not to address Ye Lin by name.

Ye Lin returned to Meteor Island and was led by Yun Qiyue to a grand banquet so he could meet powerful cultivators and make connections. He entered the Heavenly Palace with her, though he doubted that banquet acquaintances would truly help him.

• Ye Lin returned to Meteor Island, saw that Ye Xin was still guarding his manor, and headed for the Holy Palace to accept a mission.
• Yun Qiyue stopped Ye Lin and urged him not to rush into missions, then took him to a banquet instead.
• Yun Qiyue explained that the banquet would let Ye Lin meet heirs of ancient forces and disciples of great masters who might help him later.
• A gatekeeper initially tried to turn them away, then recognized Yun Qiyue and let her and Ye Lin enter the Heavenly Palace.

Yun Qiyue brought Ye Lin into a banquet hall fashioned as a small world, with a starry void, inverted mountains, shifting scenes, a lotus platform made of swords, and nine quasi-Saint puppets. Impressed but not deeply moved, Ye Lin followed Yun Qiyue onto the platform.

• Yun Qiyue led Ye Lin into the palace and showed him the small-world banquet hall.
• Ye Lin saw the stars beneath the transparent floor, the inverted mountains and rivers overhead, and scenes playing across curtains of light.
• Ye Lin noticed the sword-blade lotus platform and the nine quasi-Saint puppets hovering above it.
• Yun Qiyue asked Ye Lin what he thought, and Ye Lin acknowledged the hall was unexpected without showing much surprise.
• Yun Qiyue took Ye Lin's hand and stepped onto the lotus platform.

Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue arrived at the center of the Lotus Platform, where several powerful young heirs from the Eastern Region had gathered. Yun Qiyue identified the Dragon Clan’s Ao Jin, the Ice Phoenix Clan’s Feng Qingyin, the Barbarian Clan’s Shi Potian, and the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s Ji Xuan.

• Ye Lin examined the Lotus Platform’s sword-filled surface and recognized the laws flowing through its refined blades.
• Yun Qiyue introduced Ao Jin, the Dragon Clan’s young lord, as a strong but ill-tempered Quasi-Saint.
• Yun Qiyue identified Feng Qingyin, whose Ice Phoenix bloodline and Ice Law made her dangerous and aloof.
• Yun Qiyue described Shi Potian’s formidable body and his reputation for enduring a second-heaven Quasi-Saint’s full-force blow.
• Yun Qiyue introduced Ji Xuan, the second-heaven Quasi-Saint successor of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, who studied a bamboo scroll.

Yun Qiyue introduced Ye Lin to Hua Feiyi, the successor of Hundred Flowers Valley, who flirted with him and tried to match with him. Ye Lin gently pushed her away, and Shi Potian arrived, declaring that Hua Feiyi was his.

• Hua Feiyi arrived along a path of flower petals and greeted Yun Qiyue, who introduced her to Ye Lin as a prominent successor of Hundred Flowers Valley.
• Hua Feiyi teased Yun Qiyue about their friendship, then turned her attention to Ye Lin and asked whether he had a Dao companion.
• Hua Feiyi flirted with Ye Lin and praised his intact primordial yang, but Ye Lin said they were unsuitable and used Sword Qi to move her away.
• Hua Feiyi remarked on Ye Lin's skill and encouraged him to reconsider, while Yun Qiyue smiled and watched.
• Shi Potian arrived and declared that Hua Feiyi was his.

Hua Feiyi rejected Shi Potian’s advances and claimed Ye Lin as her Dao companion, but Shi Potian remained undeterred and invited Ye Lin to spend time with him. As they went, Shi Potian asked about Ye Lin’s master and pointed out the cultivator Baili Rufeng, leaving Ye Lin looking toward the distant figure.

• Hua Feiyi told Shi Potian she was not interested in him and said she already liked Ye Lin.
• Shi Potian insisted he would still pursue Hua Feiyi, then introduced himself to Ye Lin and invited him to go have fun.
• Ye Lin accepted after Yun Qiyue nodded, and he explained why he had taken the Blade Saint as his master.
• Shi Potian pointed out Baili Rufeng and described his cultivation method and reputation for making women fall in love with him.
• Ye Lin looked toward Baili Rufeng in the distance.

Ye Lin learned from Shi Potian that the banquet had been called to gather the Eastern Region’s young powerhouses for an expedition to an ancient ruin in the Boundary Sea. The ruin’s contents remained unknown because the Chaos Ancient Clan had sealed off information.

• Shi Potian mocked a distant robed man for scouting out his next target among fairy maidens.
• Ye Lin asked Shi Potian why the banquet had been called.
• Shi Potian explained that an ancient ruin had appeared in the Boundary Sea and that the Chaos Ancient Clan had sent its younger generation to seal it off from powerful experts.
• Shi Potian said Long Aotian, son of the Holy Palace’s Eastern Region Vice Palace Master, had called the banquet to gather the region’s young powerhouses for the ruin.
• Ye Lin asked what the ruin contained, and Shi Potian said nobody knew because the Chaos Ancient Clan had sealed off all information.

Ye Lin joined a banquet where Long Aotian gathered the Eastern Region’s young scions to discuss the Chaos Ancient Clan and an extraordinary ruin. Long Aotian urged them to unite and declared that they could not surrender the ruin.

• Ye Lin suspected the ruin was valuable enough to draw the powerful young scions and wondered whether the Chaos Ancient Clan had spread the news as a trap.
• Shi Potian said the ruin was real and that heavenly secrets had exposed the truth.
• Long Aotian arrived, and Ye Lin sensed that he posed a threat to his life.
• Shi Potian told Ye Lin that Long Aotian had never lost and had been raised with the finest resources by his father, a peak Quasi-Saint of the Ninth Heaven.
• Long Aotian thanked the guests and called on them to unite against the Chaos Ancient Clan and claim the significant ruin.

Long Aotian invited the cultivators to learn about the sealed ruins, making clear that no one was forced to go. Ye Lin, Yun Qiyue, and Hua Feiyi headed to meet him, but they encountered an argument in the corridor.

• Long Aotian told the cultivators they could choose whether to investigate the ruins, then left for the inner banquet hall.
• Shi Potian urged Ye Lin to learn more and went ahead to meet Long Aotian, followed by several other cultivators.
• Yun Qiyue and Hua Feiyi persuaded Ye Lin to go see what Long Aotian was planning, and the three set off together.
• Ye Lin and his companions heard someone complain that Long Aotian had refused to let him in, and they found a crowd gathered around the dispute.

Ye Lin watched cultivators being tested at the golden gate and learned about a rare stone that assessed their strength. Shi Potian explained the stone’s color rankings as Ye Lin prepared to understand what the test measured.

• Two attendants rejected a young man at the gate because his strength did not meet the requirements, and nearby cultivators mocked him as he left.
• An attendant tested a woman’s strength with a palm-sized stone, which glowed faint gold, and allowed her through the gate.
• Shi Potian appeared beside Ye Lin, who realized that he had come for Hua Feiyi.
• Ye Lin asked Shi Potian about the stone, and Shi Potian explained that the saint’s-blood-stained treasure assessed personal strength but excluded treasures and trump cards.
• Ye Lin asked how strength was classified, and Shi Potian listed the colors from white through violet-gold.

Ye Lin’s group tested their strength on a stone that ranked battle prowess, and Yun Qiyue and Hua Feiyi produced stronger golden readings than Shi Potian. The chapter left Shi Potian humiliated after Hua Feiyi mocked him for pursuing her.

• Shi Potian explained the stone’s color rankings and warned that it only roughly measured a cultivator’s current strength.
• Most cultivators failed to pass the test and left, while those who qualified showed gold readings.
• Yun Qiyue placed her hand on the stone and produced a brilliant golden radiance.
• Shi Potian tested next, but his golden light was noticeably dimmer than Yun Qiyue’s.
• Hua Feiyi produced a brighter golden reading than Shi Potian and scorned him for pursuing her.
• Shi Potian blushed and could not find a way to reclaim his dignity.

Ye Lin tested his strength at the entrance and produced a faint red glow, surprising Yun Qiyue, Hua Feiyi, and Shi Potian. The group entered the banquet hall, where Long Aotian stood on a platform as the cultivators gathered.

• Shi Potian asked Ye Lin to test the stone, hoping he would be no stronger than himself.
• Ye Lin touched the stone, which showed a faint red glow and shocked the trio.
• Hua Feiyi openly flirted with Ye Lin, leaving Shi Potian convinced he had lost his goddess.
• Yun Qiyue praised Ye Lin’s hidden strength, and the four entered the banquet hall.
• The guards identified Ye Lin as the Blade Saint’s direct disciple and remarked on his red strength.
• Long Aotian welcomed the arriving cultivators to find seats.

Long Aotian told the gathered cultivators that a ruin the Chaos Ancient Clan was exploring seemed to come from outside the Boundary Sea or was beyond his father’s ability to divine. He offered the qualified guests a chance to join the expedition, leaving them to weigh its risks and keep the information secret.

• Long Aotian welcomed Ye Lin and the other cultivators, then revealed that the ruin might not belong to the Boundary Sea.
• Long Aotian said his father, a peak ninth-level Quasi-Saint, had divined no karmic entanglements around the ruin, suggesting it either came from beyond the Boundary Sea or was connected to a Saint.
• Long Aotian explained that the Chaos Ancient Clan had allowed the Eastern Region’s Holy Palace to explore the ruin in exchange for meeting its qualifications.
• Long Aotian invited the cultivators to register for the dangerous expedition and warned them to keep the meeting and its revelations secret.
• The cultivators erupted into discussion as they considered whether to join the expedition.

Long Aotian invited Ye Lin and the other cultivators to explore a ruin beyond the Boundary Sea, assuring them that Holy Palace experts would escort them against the Chaos Ancient Clan. Ye Lin agreed to go, and Yun Qiyue followed, leaving the group ready to set out.

• Long Aotian invited Ye Lin to join the expedition and promised that Holy Palace experts would protect the group.
• Ye Lin questioned whether the Chaos Ancient Clan might attack, and Long Aotian assured him the expedition would be safe.
• Shi Potian agreed to go first, prompting the other prodigies to join the expedition.
• Hua Feiyi agreed to go, and Long Aotian continued to watch for Ye Lin's decision.
• Ye Lin agreed to explore the ruin, and Yun Qiyue said she would go with him.

Ye Lin agreed to join Long Aotian’s expedition to the ruins, and Long Aotian offered to handle Ye Lin’s unfinished Holy Palace task. Three days later, thirty-six powerful cultivators departed the Eastern Region and entered the Boundary Sea.

• Long Aotian set the expedition’s departure for three days later, despite some cultivators objecting to the short notice.
• Ye Lin hesitated because he had an unfinished Holy Palace task, but Long Aotian offered to postpone it or consolidate his tasks.
• After three days, thirty-six cultivators gathered to depart, while Long Aotian ignored the absence of more than a dozen others.
• Long Aotian led the thirty-six cultivators through the Void, out of the Eastern Region, and into the Boundary Sea.

Long Aotian led the group through the Boundary Sea to a vast expanse of ruins. Ye Lin surveyed the ancient, mysterious remains, and the group stood before the ruined palace at the center of a ring of pillars and chains.

• Long Aotian used a Compass to guide the group through the Boundary Sea.
• Long Aotian announced that they had reached their destination.
• Ye Lin saw a vast sea of ruins emerging from the gray-white mist.
• Ye Lin observed colossal rune-covered pillars encircled by chains stained with dried blood.
• Ye Lin examined a ruined palace floating at the center of the array and saw towers, a gate, broken stairs, and a gigantic skeleton among the surrounding ruins.

Ye Lin saw the ruins crowded with bizarre members of the Chaos Ancient Clan, suspended among the wreckage in countless strange forms. As they noticed Ye Lin and his group, their attention shifted from the ruins to the newcomers.

• Ye Lin spotted figures floating, hanging, and frozen throughout the ruins.
• Ye Lin recognized the figures as members of the Chaos Ancient Clan, whose mist-like bodies varied in color, size, and shape.
• Ye Lin observed several bizarre members, including a many-eyed spider-like figure, a tentacled figure, and a turning wheel with eyes.
• The Chaos Ancient Clan members turned their gazes toward Ye Lin's group and scrutinized them.

Long Aotian and the others encountered members of the Chaos Ancient Clan in the ruins, where Long Xiu challenged Long Aotian and another enemy provoked Shi Potian. Long Aotian and Shi Potian accepted their fights, and the clashes began.

• Long Xiu mocked Long Aotian and gathered the Chaos Ancient Clan members around him.
• Long Aotian said they should focus on exploring the ruins but accepted Long Xiu's challenge when he insisted on fighting.
• Long Xiu and Long Aotian vanished to battle after Long Aotian summoned his crimson spear.
• A Chaos Ancient Clan member insulted the people of the Origin Continent and challenged them to fight.
• Shi Potian charged at the provoker, and they began fighting with deadly attacks.

Ye Lin faced the Chaos Ancient Clan at the Boundary Sea while the cultivators behind him and his companions joined battles elsewhere. Yuan Zhou called in two allies, leaving Ye Lin surrounded by three bizarre enemies.

• Ye Lin ordered the cultivators behind him to attack the Chaos Ancient Clan, and battles erupted around the Boundary Sea.
• Yun Qiyue went to test the enemies’ strength, and Hua Feiyi also joined the fighting.
• Yuan Zhou introduced himself to Ye Lin and said he had friends.
• Bone Slayer and Cockroach emerged from the mist and took positions beside Yuan Zhou, surrounding Ye Lin.

Ye Lin faced Yuan Zhou, Bone Slayer, and Cockroach, three first-level Quasi-Saint Realm prodigies from the Chaos Bone Clan’s Imperial Clan, after they surrounded him. He blocked their opening attacks, but Yuan Zhou’s giant palm was still coming down toward him.

• Yuan Zhou threatened Ye Lin as he, Bone Slayer, and Cockroach formed a triangle around him.
• Ye Lin summoned the Godslayer Sword and calmly challenged the three Imperial Clan prodigies to attack.
• Yuan Zhou fired rays from his eyes, Bone Slayer charged with his legs, and Cockroach sent down a net of light.
• Ye Lin cut open the void to swallow Cockroach’s net and parried Bone Slayer’s repeated strikes with his sword.
• Yuan Zhou’s eye rays formed a gigantic palm that slammed toward Ye Lin’s head.

Ye Lin fought Cockroach, Bone Slayer, and Yuan Zhou as their coordinated attacks pressed him. He broke free of Cockroach’s threads and wounded Bone Slayer with a swift sword strike.

• Ye Lin cut Yuan Zhou’s descending palm but found it remained intact and leaked corrosive black liquid.
• Cockroach sent resilient white threads toward Ye Lin, which wrapped around and restrained his sword.
• Bone Slayer formed his twelve legs into a spear and charged Ye Lin while Yuan Zhou fired a rain of light needles.
• Ye Lin swallowed Yuan Zhou’s needles with a black hole and evaded Bone Slayer’s spear.
• Ye Lin snapped Cockroach’s threads with a forceful shake, then slashed Bone Slayer from shoulder to waist.

Ye Lin was trapped and wounded by Cockroach, Bone Slayer, and Yuan Zhou, but he broke free and healed rapidly. He challenged Bone Slayer to fight again.

• Bone Slayer retreated after Ye Lin wounded him, then began healing with the Imperial Clan’s powerful recovery ability.
• Cockroach cast a vast net while Bone Slayer blocked Ye Lin’s escape and Yuan Zhou slowed him by solidifying the Void around him.
• The net bound Ye Lin, allowing Bone Slayer to pierce his shoulder and Yuan Zhou to cut deeply into his arm.
• Ye Lin snapped the threads and healed his wounds at a speed that surpassed Bone Slayer’s.
• Ye Lin pointed his sword at Bone Slayer and said, “Again.”

Ye Lin fought Bone Slayer and Cockroach while Yuan Zhou prepared a devastating attack. He broke free of the pressure from Bone Slayer’s speed and began damaging Cockroach’s Heavenly Net, but Yuan Zhou’s combined beam forced him to retreat with Bone Slayer blocking his escape.

• Bone Slayer attacked Ye Lin from three directions with afterimages, and Ye Lin opened a spatial rift with his sword to drag out Bone Slayer’s true body.
• Ye Lin turned on Cockroach and repeatedly struck the weakest points of the Heavenly Net, cracking its meshes as Cockroach reinforced them.
• Yuan Zhou fired a multicolored pillar of light that annihilated everything in its path, forcing Ye Lin to abandon his attack on the net and retreat.
• Bone Slayer blocked Ye Lin’s escape route as Yuan Zhou’s destructive beam advanced.

Ye Lin used a single sword strike to counter Yuan Zhou's pillar of light, Bone Slayer's leg-spikes, and Cockroach's heavenly net. All three attacks were neutralized, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Bone Slayer raised his twelve legs to attack Ye Lin while Yuan Zhou sent a seven-colored pillar of light and Cockroach brought down a heavenly net.
• Ye Lin traced silver-white patterns along his sword and delivered one slow yet swift strike in three directions.
• Ye Lin split Yuan Zhou's pillar of light in two, sending its upper half into the Boundary Sea.
• Ye Lin's sword light bound Bone Slayer's twelve legs and wounded them, leaving them numb and stiff.
• Ye Lin's sword-light net clashed with Cockroach's heavenly net until both shattered.