Recaps

Spirit King and the other experts planned to use Ye Lin as bait to lure out the Mystic Soul Dragon Clan in the Boundary Sea. Ye Lin agreed and was sent back to Meteor Island to prepare for the plan.

• Spirit King proposed using Ye Lin as bait to draw out the Mystic Soul Dragon Clan.
• An elderly expert suggested luring the clan in the Boundary Sea, where they could obscure the secrets of heaven and avoid alerting the enemy.
• Ye Lin agreed to the plan and said he could handle matters within the Holy Palace.
• Spirit King arranged for Ye Lin to return to Meteor Island and said someone would protect him in secret.
• Spirit King transported Ye Lin directly to his residence, where Ye Lin marveled at the expert's power.

Ye Lin arranged for a Boundary Sea assessment mission through a discreet payment at the Holy Palace. He left with a map and Compass to capture three living Star-Slaying Beasts, while his red-glowing Identity Token hinted that something else was underway.

• Meng Ting offered to accompany Ye Lin, but Ye Lin declined and accepted a Jade Talisman he could use to summon him.
• Ye Lin went to the Holy Palace and asked a woman there to arrange a Boundary Sea mission.
• The woman secretly accepted Ye Lin's payment and emphasized that the mission selection was random.
• Ye Lin received a map and Compass and learned that he had to capture three living Star-Slaying Beasts at the marked location.
• Ye Lin noticed a figure walking ahead as his Identity Token glowed red.

Ye Lin traveled through the Boundary Sea to a region where Star-Slaying Beasts appeared, using a Compass to search for them while pretending not to notice that someone was watching him. The Compass had not yet found a beast, and Ye Lin continued to act as bait.

• Ye Lin left the Holy Palace and headed toward the Boundary Sea without revealing anything unusual.
• Ye Lin followed the map’s landmarks through the Boundary Sea, traveling five hours between each one.
• Ye Lin reached the region where Star-Slaying Beasts appeared most frequently and activated the Compass to search for their aura.
• When the Compass showed no response, Ye Lin shifted his position while maintaining his deliberate performance for those watching him.

Ye Lin met Ning Yi, a Quasi-Saint from the Mystic Soul Dragon Clan, who had discovered their plan and challenged him to a fight. Ning Yi promised compensation if Ye Lin won and demanded Ye Lin’s life if he lost, then began explaining the clan’s strength.

• Ye Lin used his Identity Token to confirm that the figure before him belonged to the Mystic Soul Dragon Clan.
• Ning Yi introduced himself as a first-level Quasi-Saint and said the three clan members Ye Lin had fought were juniors who barely mattered to him.
• Ning Yi confirmed that the Mystic Soul Dragon Clan had discovered their plan and challenged Ye Lin, offering to stop troubling him and provide compensation if Ye Lin won.
• Ye Lin drew the Godslayer Sword and asked how the three previous opponents ranked within the clan.
• Ning Yi observed that Ye Lin seemed unsure of his strength and began explaining the Mystic Soul Dragon Clan’s power.

Ning Yi explained that he and the current emperor of the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan had sealed themselves away in ancient times to wait for an era in which they could pursue sainthood. He and Ye Lin began their unavoidable fight, and Ning Yi evaded Ye Lin’s opening sword strike with an afterimage.

• Ning Yi told Ye Lin that he and the current emperor of the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan came from before the ancient ages and had sealed themselves away until an era suitable for becoming Saints.
• Ning Yi explained that their seals let them escape the Great Dao’s punishment, and he warned Ye Lin to fight seriously.
• Ye Lin accepted that battle was unavoidable, gripped the Godslayer Sword, and faced Ning Yi across the Boundary Sea.
• Ning Yi beckoned Ye Lin to attack, and Ye Lin flashed forward with a swift sword strike aimed at Ning Yi’s face.
• Ye Lin’s sword pierced only Ning Yi’s afterimage, and Ye Lin’s pupils contracted as he realized he had failed to catch Ning Yi’s true body.

Ye Lin fought Ning Yi in the Boundary Sea and discovered that Ning Yi's ancient Primordial Origin Force could match his Sword Dao Law. The battle intensified as Ning Yi used his Primordial Nine Steps to attack Ye Lin from every direction.

• Ning Yi struck Ye Lin from behind with Primordial Origin Force, but Ye Lin blocked the blow with the Godslayer Sword.
• Ye Lin slashed at Ning Yi with a sword radiance powered by Sword Dao Law, and Ning Yi countered with Primordial Origin Force, annihilating both attacks.
• Ning Yi recognized Ye Lin's mastery of Sword Dao Law and praised his approach of using it as his main force with sacred power as support.
• Ning Yi used Primordial Nine Steps to create hundreds of afterimages and attacked Ye Lin simultaneously from many directions.

Ye Lin and Ning Yi tested each other’s strength in the Boundary Sea, with Ye Lin resisting Ning Yi’s Taichu Seal. Ning Yi then prepared a vast, ancient formation as the duel entered its serious stage.

• Ye Lin found Ning Yi’s true body above him and struck upward with the Godslayer Sword.
• Ning Yi countered with the Taichu Seal, shattering Ye Lin’s sword light and forcing him back several hundred zhang.
• Ning Yi praised Ye Lin’s Sword Dao Law, and the two acknowledged each other’s techniques.
• Ning Yi said he would stop probing and get serious, while Ye Lin readied the Godslayer Sword.
• Ning Yi formed an enormous golden formation covered in ancient runes that Ye Lin had never seen before.

Ning Yi trapped Ye Lin in his Primordial Forbidden Art, Eternal Primeval Wilderness, a real primeval world formed from Primordial Origin Force. Ye Lin slew the attacking beasts with Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin, but the beasts endlessly regenerated, leaving him facing a stronger second wave.

• Ning Yi engulfed Ye Lin in the golden formation and drew him into the Eternal Primeval Wilderness.
• Ning Yi explained that Ye Lin would face both him and the primeval giant beasts inhabiting the world.
• Ye Lin used Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin to kill the beasts attacking from the land, sky, and magma.
• Ning Yi made the dead beasts turn into golden motes that revived as larger, stronger, and faster creatures.
• Ye Lin furrowed his brow as the regenerated beasts rose to attack again.

Ye Lin used the Primeval Sword Art to crack Ning Yi’s defenses, but Ning Yi answered with Primeval Forbidden Art: Ninefold Reincarnation and trapped Ye Lin in a formation that distorted time and space. Ye Lin’s attacks and movements were restrained as the battle continued.

• Ye Lin realized the resurrecting beasts would make the fight a war of attrition and decided he had to defeat Ning Yi quickly.
• Ye Lin struck Ning Yi’s golden barrier with Primeval Heaven-Opening, cracking it with his swordlight.
• Ye Lin followed with Yin-Yang Division, and the black and white Flood Dragons tore further through Ning Yi’s defenses.
• Ning Yi retreated and summoned nine spheres of different powers with Primeval Forbidden Art: Ninefold Reincarnation.
• The nine spheres formed a formation around Ye Lin, distorting time and space until his Sword Qi vanished and his movements returned him to their starting point.

Ye Lin endured Ning Yi’s Ninefold Reincarnation with his Sword Dao Law barrier while waiting for Ning Yi’s Primordial Origin Force to falter. When the nine spheres briefly stalled, Ye Lin launched the Five Elements Cycle, leaving the outcome of his counterattack unresolved.

• Ning Yi’s nine spheres battered Ye Lin’s barrier, but Ye Lin’s Sword Dao Law kept it from breaking.
• Ning Yi recognized that Ye Lin’s Sword Dao Law had reached the level of origin.
• Ye Lin waited through prolonged attacks as his barrier cracked and his body accumulated wounds.
• Ning Yi’s Primordial Origin Force weakened, and the nine spheres stalled for an instant.
• Ye Lin used the third form of the Primeval Sword Art, Five Elements Cycle, to strike the nine spheres and dissolve their powers.

Ye Lin and Ning Yi fought across the Boundary Sea, each unleashing increasingly powerful forbidden arts. Ye Lin split Ning Yi’s Primordial Desolation with a single sword strike but stopped just short of hitting him, and they agreed the battle was a draw.

• Ye Lin shattered Ning Yi’s Ninefold Reincarnation and charged as his Sword Dao Law transformed under the pressure of their fight.
• Ning Yi summoned the golden war god phantom with Descent of the War God, and he and Ye Lin fought for a day and a night until both were exhausted.
• Ning Yi unleashed Primordial Desolation, awakening an annihilating power that threatened to return everything to nothingness.
• Ye Lin unified his essence, energy, and spirit and struck with a sword move that split Primordial Desolation and severed time, space, laws, and cause and effect.
• Ye Lin stopped his sword one inch from Ning Yi’s brow, and the two agreed their battle was a draw.

Ye Lin survived his battle with Ning Yi, who accepted defeat and promised that the Mystic Soul Dragon Clan would no longer trouble him. After completing his mission to capture three Star-Slaying Beasts, Ye Lin returned to the Origin Continent with the white-bearded old man.

• Ning Yi declared that he had lost, gave Ye Lin a healing pill and an Identity Token, and promised the Mystic Soul Dragon Clan would not trouble him again.
• After Ning Yi left, Ye Lin revealed that he had suffered grievous injuries and accepted the items while considering the clans’ ancient enmity.
• A white-bearded old man appeared and offered to take Ye Lin back to the Origin Continent.
• Ye Lin explained that he still needed to capture three Star-Slaying Beasts, and the old man produced all three.
• The old man transported Ye Lin to the Origin Continent, and Ye Lin said goodbye.

At White King Palace, the Spirit King discussed Ye Lin’s draw with Ning Yi and wondered whether Ye Lin could help end the ancient feud between the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan and the Mystic Soul Dragon Clan. The old man rejected the idea, insisting the feud began with their ancestor taking the other clan’s ancestor’s Dao companion.

• The old man reported that Ye Lin had drawn with Ning Yi, though Ye Lin held the upper hand and Ning Yi had not used his full strength.
• The Spirit King asked Elder Qin whether Ye Lin could be the era’s protagonist, but Elder Qin said that was impossible.
• Elder Qin warned that the Spirit King’s younger brother had accepted Ning Yi’s token and might be used by someone else.
• The Spirit King said he hoped Ye Lin could help resolve the clans’ ancient hatred, but Elder Qin reminded him that their ancestor had taken the Mystic Soul Dragon Clan ancestor’s Dao companion.
• The Spirit King defended his ancestor, claiming the Dao companion had chosen to go willingly.

After returning to Meteor Island, Ye Lin took the pill Ning Yi had given him to heal his severe injuries. The pill’s violent medicinal force shattered and rebuilt his bones, muscles, and meridians, leaving his recovery still underway.

• Ye Lin returned to Meteor Island after submitting his mission at the Holy Palace.
• Ye Lin swallowed the pill Ning Yi had given him despite his hesitation.
• The pill’s medicinal force rampaged through Ye Lin’s meridians, and he stopped trying to control it.
• The medicinal force shattered Ye Lin’s damaged chest bones and grew denser, stronger bones marked with faint golden patterns.
• The medicinal force pulverized Ye Lin’s arm injuries and began rebuilding his muscles, fascia, and meridians while expelling impurities.

Ye Lin's pill continued rebuilding his injured body, repairing his dantian and Primordial Spirit. After the damage from his recent battles was healed, the black aura left by Ning Yi's Primordial Origin Force escaped as smoke.

• The medicinal power rebuilt Ye Lin's legs, making them stronger and lighter than before.
• Ye Lin let the medicinal power enter his dantian, where it stitched every crack in the walls with golden threads.
• The medicinal power repaired the dantian's void turbulence and spatial fissures, leaving its walls tougher and marked with golden runes.
• Golden motes healed the crack and dent in Ye Lin's Primordial Spirit and drove away the black aura left by Ning Yi.

Ye Lin recovered from his injuries after taking Ning Yi’s pill, which also strengthened his origin and advanced his cultivation. He returned to peak condition and began eyeing ancient cultivators as potential targets to rob.

• The pill’s medicinal power seeped into Ye Lin’s origin, a silver-white sword, and its ancient Sword Dao insights strengthened the blade.
• Ye Lin realized Ning Yi’s pill was both a healing medicine and a gift containing ancient power.
• Ye Lin opened his eyes after an unknown time and found that his injuries had healed and he had returned to peak condition.
• Ye Lin sensed that he was one step away from the second level of the Quasi-Saint realm.
• Ye Lin considered robbing ancient cultivators for their treasures and regretted not keeping Dragon One and the other two earlier.

Ye Lin met his Second Senior Sister, Shen Muge, after Yun Qiyue brought him to the main hall. Shen Muge said she had come to meet the new junior and avenge an old grudge, then ordered Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue to accompany her.

• Yun Qiyue told Ye Lin that Hua Feiyi was fine and explained she had many pursuers, including cultivators from the Central Region.
• Yun Qiyue brought Ye Lin to the main hall and introduced him to Shen Muge, the Second Senior Sister who had come from the Central Region.
• Ye Lin greeted Shen Muge and found her strikingly beautiful but profoundly cold and indifferent.
• Shen Muge said she had come to meet Ye Lin and avenge an old grudge, then told him and Yun Qiyue to go with her.
• Yun Qiyue agreed at once, and Ye Lin followed her lead and accepted.

Shen Muge led Yun Qiyue and Ye Lin to settle an old grudge in the Eastern Region. Yun Qiyue explained Shen Muge’s painful past, but Shen Muge overheard their secret conversation, and Yun Qiyue revealed that her senior sister had reached the fifth level of the Quasi-Saint Realm.

• Shen Muge set off from the main hall, and Yun Qiyue took Ye Lin along after her.
• Yun Qiyue told Ye Lin that Shen Muge had fallen in love with a man seventy thousand years earlier, then killed his other lover and began cultivating the Dao of Heartlessness.
• Shen Muge revealed that she had heard Yun Qiyue and Ye Lin’s voice transmissions, then continued on without further comment.
• Ye Lin marveled at Shen Muge’s cultivation progress, and Yun Qiyue told him that Shen Muge was at the fifth level of the Quasi-Saint Realm.

Ye Lin learned that Yun Qiyue and Shen Muge were far stronger than he had expected, then followed Shen Muge to confront Mountainwalker Venerable. The chapter ended as Mountainwalker Venerable appeared in a powerful Dharma manifestation after Shen Muge destroyed his mountain gate.

• Yun Qiyue told Ye Lin that she had reached the Fifth Heaven of the Quasi-Sage Realm and that Eldest Senior Brother had been at the Seventh Heaven twenty thousand years earlier.
• Shen Muge challenged Ye Lin to spar, and Yun Qiyue warned him that Shen Muge would not suppress her cultivation.
• Shen Muge led Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue to Mountainwalker Venerable’s mountain gate and demanded that he release the person she wanted.
• Shen Muge smashed the mountain gate with a palm strike, prompting Mountainwalker Venerable to appear as a towering golden Dharma manifestation wielding a Long Sword.

Shen Muge attacked the Mountain Walking Sect, demanding that Wu Chen hand over the man she considered her death calamity. After learning he had fled, she left to pursue him with Yun Qiyue and Ye Lin.

• Shen Muge demanded that Wu Chen hand over the man she sought and threatened to destroy the Mountain Walking Sect.
• Yun Qiyue explained to Ye Lin that Wu Chen was the sixth-level Quasi-Saint Mountainwalker Venerable, but Shen Muge was stronger in a fight.
• Shen Muge shattered Wu Chen's Dharma manifestation, entered the sect, and searched for the man.
• Wu Chen told Shen Muge that the man had fled before she arrived, but she refused to abandon her pursuit.
• Shen Muge traveled away at terrifying speed with Yun Qiyue and Ye Lin, and Yun Qiyue asked where they were going.

Shen Muge spent a year searching the Eastern Region with Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue before tracking Gu Chen to Great Forest Chan Temple. She demanded that the Venerable surrender him, but the Venerable claimed Gu Chen had become a monk and refused to hand him over.

• Shen Muge forced Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue to search the Eastern Region with her, striking Yun Qiyue when she complained.
• After a year of searching, Shen Muge traced the severed karmic thread to Great Forest Chan Temple.
• Shen Muge formally requested an audience with the temple's Venerable and demanded that he release Gu Chen.
• The Venerable said Gu Chen had entered monastic life and would remain a disciple of the Buddhist Sect.
• Shen Muge warned that the Venerable and the temple could not protect Gu Chen, while Ye Lin wondered whether her cultivation of the Dao of Heartlessness had truly severed her emotions.

Shen Muge attacked the Venerable after he refused to surrender Gu Chen, and the two fought in a battle far beyond Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue’s understanding. The fight continued with the outcome still uncertain, though cracks in the Venerable’s golden Buddha manifestation suggested Shen Muge might be gaining the upper hand.

• The Venerable told Shen Muge that Gu Chen had joined Great Forest Chan Temple and urged her to let go of their settled grudges.
• Shen Muge rejected the Venerable’s words and attacked him when he refused to hand over Gu Chen.
• Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue watched from a distance, and Yun Qiyue prepared a Jade Talisman to summon the Great Blade Association’s experts if Shen Muge was in danger.
• Ye Lin noticed cracks in the Venerable’s golden Buddha manifestation as Shen Muge questioned why Wu Chen and the Venerable protected Gu Chen.
• The Venerable defended his duty to protect Gu Chen, challenged Shen Muge’s understanding of the Dao of Ruthlessness, and the battle intensified beyond Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue’s sight.

Shen Muge defeated the Venerable and entered Great Forest Chan Temple with Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue to take Gu Chen. After warning off a powerful presence with the threat of summoning her senior brother, she found Gu Chen inside a great hall before a Buddha manifestation.

• Shen Muge shattered the Venerable’s golden Buddha manifestation and declared that she would enter Great Forest Chan Temple to seize Gu Chen.
• Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue followed Shen Muge through the mountain gate into the temple.
• Shen Muge warned a powerful presence not to interfere, threatening that her senior brother would raze Great Forest Chan Temple if it did.
• Yun Qiyue and Ye Lin followed Shen Muge to a great hall, where they saw a solemn Buddha manifestation.
• Shen Muge found Gu Chen inside the hall.

Shen Muge found Gu Chen, now known as Qingran, and tried to kill him, but his master intervened and set limits on his protection. Shen Muge ordered Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue to attack instead, but twenty-eight monks arrived to shield Qingran.

• Shen Muge confronted Qingran, who said he had left behind the name Gu Chen and taken the Dharma name Qingran.
• Qingran's master blocked Shen Muge's attack and explained that Qingran was his disciple.
• Shen Muge left after threatening to return in a year, and Qingran's master said he would only intervene if Shen Muge used her greater strength to bully him.
• Shen Muge ordered Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue to kill Qingran, but Ye Lin stayed back while Yun Qiyue stepped forward.
• Twenty-eight monks entered the hall and stood between Qingran and Yun Qiyue and Ye Lin.

Shen Muge and Yun Qiyue confronted monks from the Great Forest Chan Temple who were protecting Gu Chen, while the old monk warned that the Great Thunderclap Temple had taken an interest in him. Ye Lin killed one monk with a single sword strike and challenged the other twenty-seven to fight him in the Void.

• Yun Qiyue prepared to summon reinforcements as Shen Muge faced twenty-eight monks, all below the Fourth Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm.
• The old monk said he would protect Qingran and revealed that Gu Chen had drawn the attention of the Central Region's Great Thunderclap Temple.
• Shen Muge asked Ye Lin and his companion whether they could defeat the monks, saying the grudge was hers.
• Ye Lin drew the Godslayer Sword and killed a First Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm monk with one effortless strike.
• Ye Lin invited the remaining twenty-seven monks to attack him together in the Void, and they left the great hall to face him.