Recaps

Ye Lin and the other cultivators prepared for the arena tournament, which was expected to begin in a month, while acknowledging the pressure posed by the Chaos Ancient Clan. After settling into an empty estate, Ye Lin reviewed his unchanged destiny and wondered who the mysterious powerhouse in it was.

• Yan Ting suggested that the group rest for a month and aim for thirty-six consecutive tournament victories.
• The cultivators departed to recuperate, and Yan Ting told Ye Lin he could rest in any unoccupied estate.
• Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue entered an estate, where Yun Qiyue left him to rest and promised to cheer him on.
• Ye Lin reviewed his cultivation panel and noted that his destiny still predicted his death at the hands of a mysterious powerhouse.
• Ye Lin closed his eyes to cultivate, then heard someone call, "Fellow Daoist Ye Lin."

Su Wuhen gave Ye Lin an Identity Token containing Canglan Venerable’s full-force strike to protect him from the Chaos Ancient Clan’s tricks, but Ye Lin remained wary of it. A month later, Ye Lin and Yan Ting headed to the competition, and Ye Lin asked Yan Ting whether he had a similar token.

• Su Wuhen visited Ye Lin and offered him an Identity Token containing his master’s full-force strike for the upcoming battle.
• Ye Lin accepted the token but tossed it into a corner because he did not trust its unknown origin.
• A month later, Yan Ting told Ye Lin that the competition was beginning and that both sides had arrived.
• Yan Ting explained that Yun Qiyue had gone ahead to the viewing area.
• Ye Lin showed Yan Ting Su Wuhen’s token and asked whether Yan Ting had one too.

Ye Lin received a protective Identity Token from Yan Ting and joined the Third Heaven Quasi-Saint contestants at the Arena. He learned that the Blade Saint would not compete, while the tournament’s Ninth Heaven Quasi-Saint participants finalized the rules elsewhere.

• Yan Ting explained that Canglan Venerable’s Identity Token would activate only if it detected power beyond the Fourth Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm, and Ye Lin kept it close to his chest.
• Yan Ting led Ye Lin to the Arena, where he joined a group of thirty-six Third Heaven Quasi-Saint contestants.
• Ye Lin saw a separate group of thirty-six Sixth Heaven Quasi-Saint contestants, and Yan Ting explained that the Ninth Heaven supreme experts were establishing the rules and signing contracts with the Chaos Ancient Clan.
• Ye Lin asked whether the Blade Saint was competing, and Yan Ting said he was not because he had only recently broken through.

Ye Lin joined the Origin Continent’s contestants for the battle against the Chaos Ancient Clan, where both sides would fight for stakes under the Great Dao of Karma’s oversight. After the competition began and Third Heaven Quasi-Saint matches were announced, Ye Lin drew a lot, leaving his opponent unknown.

• Ye Lin spoke with the other contestants as the platform lifted them above the Arena, where they faced the Chaos Ancient Clan’s fighters.
• Ye Lin spotted Yun Qiyue among the spectators on the floating islands around the Arena.
• A middle-aged man explained that the fighters would wager their stakes, while a young man declared that Arena battles allowed no surrender and ended only in death.
• The organizers began the competition and had the seventy-two Third Heaven Quasi-Saint cultivators draw lots to determine their matches.
• Ye Lin drew a white ball and split it open to reveal a slip of paper.

Ye Lin learned that he represented Holy King Prefecture in the coming contest, while the gathered cultivators discussed the Chaos Ancient Clan’s choice of border regions. The Chaos Ancient Clan singled Ye Lin out for a cruel death, and Heavenly Blade Sage and an old man traded barbs over their relationship.

• Ye Lin read his slip and learned he represented Holy King Prefecture as Number Three, while Yan Ting was Number Four.
• A young cultivator explained that the thirty-six prefectures chosen were border regions near the Boundary Sea, likely making them easier for the Chaos Ancient Clan to control.
• The Origin Continent cultivators warned one another to be careful, then joked among themselves to ease the tension.
• A young man from the Chaos Ancient Clan urged his allies not to let Ye Lin die easily, and they promised rewards for whoever killed him.
• An old man told Heavenly Blade Sage that Ye Lin was in danger, and the two exchanged teasing remarks about whether the old man was Heavenly Blade Sage’s master.

The first match of the Origin Continent battle paired Liu Yan of the Xuan Tian Phoenix Clan against Lai Te of the Chaos Ancient Clan. Both sides entered the arena confident in their champion, leaving the fight about to begin.

• A lot draw selected Number Eight versus Number Eight.
• Yan Ting told Ye Lin that Liu Yan was the Xuan Tian Phoenix Clan's Saintess and a powerful contender.
• Liu Yan greeted her allies and flew toward the Arena.
• The Chaos Ancient Clan revealed that Lai Te, its strongest body cultivator, would face Liu Yan.
• Lai Te stepped out and said he would make Liu Yan suffer less by killing her quickly.

Liu Yan faced Lai Te, a powerful body cultivator whose weakness was his fragile Primordial Spirit. Both sides recognized that their matchup strongly favored Lai Te, and the chapter ended with him confident that the Chaos Ancient Clan would win the point.

• Lai Te's fellow Chaos Ancient Clan powerhouses initially celebrated the draw because Liu Yan cultivated the Great Dao of Blazing Fire, not Primordial Spirit attacks.
• Liu Yan's allies, including Yan Ting and Ye Lin, recognized Lai Te as an exceptionally powerful body cultivator and feared Liu Yan would struggle to defeat him.
• Ninth Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm cultivators questioned whether the drawing of lots had been fair, while Liu Zheng said he believed in his daughter.
• Liu Yan and Lai Te acknowledged their unexpected matchup, and Lai Te declared that he had expected it and believed the Chaos Ancient Clan would claim the point.

Liu Yan attacked Lai Te with the Law of Blazing Flames and Heaven Incineration Nine Turns, but he endured her assault without moving. Lai Te then stepped forward and shattered the sea of fire, forcing Liu Yan to retreat as the battle intensified.

• Lai Te declared that he relied on the absolute strength of his flesh and challenged Liu Yan to fight.
• Liu Yan summoned a crimson spear and launched a fire lotus with Heaven Incineration Nine Turns, then followed with ninety-nine spear thrusts and Phoenix-shaped flames.
• Lai Te stood in the inferno as the flames scorched his skin, but his injuries healed immediately and he dismissed the attack as merely warm.
• Lai Te stepped forward, collapsing the arena into a vast void domain and shattering Liu Yan's flames, Phoenix phantoms, and spatial lava.
• Liu Yan retreated with her spear raised, and the twelve formation patterns on its shaft lit up as her fighting spirit flared.

Liu Yan unleashed her strongest flame-law attack against Lai Te, but his formidable body and golden barrier let him withstand it. Lai Te then declared that it was his turn to attack.

• Yan Ting warned Ye Lin that Liu Yan's attacks could not break Lai Te's defense, and Ye Lin said the battle was precarious.
• Liu Yan condensed the laws of flame into a greatsword and used the ninth revolution of Heaven Incineration Nine Revolutions against Lai Te.
• Lai Te raised a golden barrier patterned with tiny worlds to withstand the sword's devastating force.
• The attack shattered most of Lai Te's barrier and cracked his skin, but he remained standing and said Liu Yan had made him itch.
• Lai Te smiled and announced that it was his turn to attack.

Liu Yan fought Lai Te but was overwhelmed by his monstrous physical strength and speed. After her spear and defenses were destroyed, she ignited the Dao Fire within her soul and began burning herself to continue the battle.

• Lai Te rushed Liu Yan at a speed beyond ordinary limits, breaking her arms and blasting her across the battlefield.
• Lai Te relentlessly attacked Liu Yan’s defensive formation, shattering her ninety-nine law chains and breaking her spear.
• The Boundary Sea Abyss cultivators cheered Lai Te while the Origin Continent’s cultivators watched in fear.
• Liu Yan declared that she would burn herself if she could not burn through Lai Te, then set her body alight.

Liu Yan burned her Dao and foundation to fight Lai Te, but Ye Lin predicted that she would still lose because Lai Te had not yet burned his bloodline. The chapter ended with the spectators realizing that Lai Te could overwhelm her if he used that power.

• Liu Zheng tried to intervene when he saw Liu Yan burning her Dao and foundation, but his companions persuaded him to preserve the arena rules and the greater good.
• Liu Zheng suppressed his anger and sat back down as spectators realized Liu Yan might be crippled even if she survived the battle.
• Ye Lin told Yan Ting and the other cultivators that Liu Yan would lose despite burning herself.
• Ye Lin explained that Lai Te could burn his bloodline too, and that his powerful bloodline and physical cultivation would give him the advantage.

Liu Yan sacrificed herself in a final attack that briefly wounded Lai Te, but he revealed that he had deliberately allowed the wound and was barely harmed. He broke her spear and threatened to torture her to death as she lay near death on the arena floor.

• Liu Yan burned her body, cultivation, and laws to break past her limits and become a sword of crimson-gold light aimed at Lai Te.
• Lai Te defended himself with the Dao patterns on his body, and the collision shattered space across the arena.
• Liu Yan returned to human form, nearly transparent and barely alive, while Lai Te's chest wound began healing.
• Lai Te told Liu Yan he had deliberately let her wound him and mocked her belief that her sacrifice had left a lasting mark.
• Lai Te crushed Liu Yan's spear underfoot, causing her to fall forward, and threatened to torture her before her elders and friends.

Lai Te slowly tortured Liu Yan in the arena, crushing her fingers while explaining that his body itself was his Dao. The Origin Continent cultivators raged, but Liu Zheng was restrained from intervening, and Liu Yan remained pinned beneath Lai Te’s merciless assault.

• Lai Te lifted Liu Yan by her hair and wrist, then crushed her fingers while declaring that his body could withstand the laws she wielded.
• Origin Continent cultivators cursed Lai Te, and Yan Ting vowed to kill him if they met in battle.
• Liu Zheng rose to attack Lai Te, but three Ninth Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm powerhouses blocked him and persuaded him to wait until the battle ended.
• Chaos Ancient Clan powerhouses laughed and cheered for Lai Te as he taunted Liu Yan and continued breaking her fingers.
• Lai Te crushed all five fingers on Liu Yan’s right hand and slowly began turning her forearm to ash while she endured the pain without screaming.

Lai Te nearly destroyed Liu Yan’s body and Dao heart, but a childhood wish to become fire awakened a last, stubborn tremor within her. As her remaining power converged on that hidden resolve, Lai Te noticed the change.

• Lai Te crushed Liu Yan’s remaining body while her memories, laws, and sense of self faded away.
• Liu Yan found a tiny light hidden behind her Dao-heart seed, rooted in her childhood wish to become fire.
• Liu Yan thought of her father, Liu Zheng, and the junior sister she had promised to teach.
• As Lai Te reached toward her Dao-heart seed, Liu Yan’s ruined body trembled and its fractures began to contract.
• Liu Yan’s remaining golden ash, law fragments, and life ripples converged toward the center of her chest, drawing Lai Te’s attention.

Liu Yan sacrificed herself in a massive double explosion, using the full force of her cultivation and Flame Laws to strike Lai Te. Lai Te survived with a serious wound and shattered Dao patterns, as the battlefield fell silent.

• Liu Yan declared that she would rather die than bow and ignited all her sacred aura, laws, and life essence.
• Liu Yan's body shattered in two successive explosions that sent a crimson-gold wave of destruction across the battlefield.
• Lai Te braced himself against the blast, but it hurled him through seven Void rifts and into the battlefield's law barrier.
• Lai Te fell to his knees with a deep chest wound, shattered Dao patterns, and Liu Yan's Flame Laws still burning at its edges.
• Lai Te wiped blood from his mouth, looked across the ruined battlefield, and called Liu Yan a crazy woman.

After Lai Te tortured Liu Yan until she self-destructed, the Chaos Ancient Clan claimed Icefield Prefecture, while Liu Zheng resolved to kill Lai Te. Origin Continent’s cultivators vowed to make the Chaos Ancient Clan suffer in the next battle, and Lai Te withdrew to recover from his injuries.

• Liu Yan self-destructed after Lai Te humiliated and tortured her, and the cultivators bowed to mourn her.
• Liu Zheng said he would personally kill Lai Te, while Liu Yan’s junior sister collapsed in grief.
• The Chaos Ancient Clan claimed Icefield Prefecture, and Origin Continent announced that contestants for the next battle would be selected in one day.
• Origin Continent’s participating cultivators agreed not to let their next opponents die easily in revenge for Liu Yan.
• Lai Te admitted he had wanted to test Liu Yan’s resolve, then left to recover from injuries caused by her self-destruction.
• The Chaos Ancient Clan powerhouses warned Lai Te to stay put because Origin Continent’s elders might target him.

Yun Feiyang entered the next battle as the Origin Continent’s hopeful champion, facing his old rival Barnes. Their rematch began with both men preparing to settle their unfinished fight from the Boundary Sea.

• Yun Feiyang stepped onto the Arena after Yan Ting identified him as the Sword God’s last disciple.
• The Origin Continent’s cultivators cheered for Yun Feiyang and called for him to avenge Liu Yan.
• Barnes revealed himself as Yun Feiyang’s opponent and recalled their unresolved battle at the Boundary Sea.
• Barnes pulled a magma-filled saber from his chest, while Yun Feiyang slowly unwrapped his wooden sword.
• Barnes mocked Yun Feiyang for remaining carefree as they prepared to fight.

Yun Feiyang and Barnes began their rematch in the arena, with Yun Feiyang wielding a wooden sword that stirred the arena’s chains of law. Their opening exchange left Barnes with a thin mark on his throat and both fighters acknowledging the other's improvement.

• Barnes challenged Yun Feiyang and attacked with a crimson crescent of blade intent.
• Yun Feiyang used his wooden sword to redirect the crescent and deflect Barnes’s fire-dragon attack with three azure sword shields.
• Barnes closed in through the sparks, but Yun Feiyang slid his sword along Barnes’s blade and aimed for his throat.
• Barnes dodged Yun Feiyang’s strike, landing with a fine white mark on his throat.
• Barnes remarked that Yun Feiyang had improved, and Yun Feiyang replied that Barnes had managed to dodge one of his strikes.

Barnes attacked Yun Feiyang with the first three slashes of his Nine Lava Slashes, but Yun Feiyang deflected the attacks and used his Sword Dao to suppress the space melted by Barnes's blade. The fight continued with Yun Feiyang advancing toward Barnes, who realized his opponent’s Sword Dao could counter his own.

• Barnes struck the Arena floor with Earth Split, sending magma blade qi through the shaking space toward Yun Feiyang.
• Yun Feiyang spun his wooden sword to shred the incoming blade qi.
• Barnes unleashed Sky Incineration, filling the Arena with explosive magma rain, while Yun Feiyang dodged and deflected the falling droplets.
• Barnes used Mountain Melt to liquefy the space ahead of Yun Feiyang and halt his advance.
• Yun Feiyang drove his wooden sword into the ground and used azure ripples to restore the liquefied space, explaining that his Sword Dao suppressed what Barnes's Blade Dao burned through.

Yun Feiyang used the first two swords of Nine Swords Descending from Heaven to break through Barnes’s saber intent and inflict several wounds. Barnes staggered back, astonished by the unfamiliar sword technique.

• Yun Feiyang condensed his sword light and revealed the flaws in Barnes’s saber intent with the first sword, Dawn, cutting his left arm.
• Barnes retreated three steps as Yun Feiyang followed with the second sword, River Flow.
• Yun Feiyang’s rapid sword marks battered Barnes’s saber, reopening his hand and making his right arm tremble.
• Yun Feiyang’s sword marks slipped around Barnes’s defense and wounded his ribs, shoulder, lower abdomen, and left leg.
• Barnes staggered back twelve steps and wondered where Yun Feiyang had learned the sword technique.

Yun Feiyang appeared to gain the upper hand over Barnes with the Nine Swords Descending from Heaven, convincing the Origin Continent’s spectators that victory was near. The Chaos Ancient Clan remained confident that Barnes had not yet used his strongest method.

• After Barnes lost an arm and was driven back, cultivators on the Origin Continent cheered for Yun Feiyang and predicted his victory.
• Yan Ting told Ye Lin that the Nine Swords Descending from Heaven was the Sword God’s lifelong creation and that few could withstand it.
• The Sword God explained that Yun Feiyang had learned only the surface of the technique, while another great power said even that much was formidable.
• A Chaos Ancient Clan cultivator worried that Barnes might lose, but an expert assured him Barnes was merely playing around and had not used his strongest method.

Yun Feiyang struck Barnes with the crushing Third Sword and the space-cutting Fourth Sword, leaving him gravely wounded. As Yun Feiyang declared victory, Barnes revealed that his clan’s bloodline ability awakened at the brink of death.

• Yun Feiyang used the Third Sword, Mountain, to crush Barnes to his knees and force him to endure immense pressure.
• Yun Feiyang followed with the Fourth Sword, Space Rend, cutting across the distance and opening a deep wound in Barnes’s chest.
• Barnes dropped his saber and collapsed as magma-blood poured from his wound.
• Yun Feiyang declared that Barnes had lost, but Barnes began laughing from the Arena floor.
• Barnes’s chest wound glowed with a dark violet radiance as he revealed that his clan’s bloodline ability unleashed its true power near death.

Barnes awakened his Blade-Devouring Transformation and overwhelmed Yun Feiyang, damaging his wooden sword and wounding him. Yun Feiyang answered with Reincarnation, striking Barnes across past, present, and future and severing his transformed claw.

• Barnes's right arm transformed into a blade-covered claw as his chest wound rapidly healed.
• Barnes thanked Yun Feiyang for pushing him to the brink of death, then attacked and cracked Yun Feiyang's wooden sword.
• Barnes's claws drove Yun Feiyang back, cutting his straw hat and clothing and leaving him bleeding.
• Yun Feiyang unleashed the fifth sword, Reincarnation, with a dark-golden light surrounding him.
• Yun Feiyang's strike wounded Barnes across three points in time and severed his right claw at the wrist.

Yun Feiyang failed to unleash the sixth sword after exhausting himself against Barnes, and Barnes recovered enough to overpower him. As Barnes tortured the helpless Yun Feiyang, the fight turned into another likely loss for Origin Continent.

• Yun Feiyang tried to gather enough strength for a sixth sword, while Ye Lin warned the watching cultivators that Yun Feiyang was in worse condition than Barnes.
• The Sword God and other mighty figures realized Yun Feiyang could not continue, though the crowd kept urging him to strike.
• Yun Feiyang's attempt to unleash the sixth sword failed, and he fell to his knees as the Broken Sword dropped from his grasp.
• Barnes regenerated a blade of flesh and blood at his right wrist, stood, and walked toward Yun Feiyang.
• Barnes drove the blade through both of Yun Feiyang's shoulder blades and taunted him as he set its tip against Yun Feiyang's knee.

Barnes killed Yun Feiyang after Yun Feiyang unleashed only five of the Nine Swords Descending from Heaven. Barnes won, giving the Chaos Ancient Clan a sixth consecutive victory as the Origin Continent mourned the loss of two prodigies.

• Barnes pierced Yun Feiyang’s neck and shattered his Primordial Spirit, killing him.
• Barnes taunted the Origin Continent and declared that the Chaos Ancient Clan deserved to rule it.
• The Chaos Ancient Clan celebrated Barnes’s victory while Yan Ting and the other Origin Continent cultivators watched in silence.
• Barnes glanced back at Yun Feiyang’s corpse before leaving the Arena, where Yun Feiyang’s broken wooden sword lost its last azure light.
• The Origin Continent’s defeat count reached six, and two prodigies with the potential to reach the Ninth Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm had died.