Recaps

Ye Lin's newly awakened Unrivaled Sacred Body devoured most of the treasures he had prepared for Phoenix Fire, consuming enormous amounts of precious medicines before finally feeling full. Phoenix Fire then cautiously resumed absorbing resources as Ye Lin began drawing the surrounding treasures into himself.

• Ye Lin watched as his Unrivaled Sacred Body awakened and forcibly devoured the resources he had gathered for Phoenix Fire.
• The Unrivaled Sacred Body consumed the nearby treasures and signaled that it still craved more, so Ye Lin sent it additional treasures below Heaven Grade.
• After absorbing fifty Earth Grade precious medicines and countless Mysterious Grade ones, the Unrivaled Sacred Body finally fell silent and felt full.
• Ye Lin recalled the five levels of the Unrivaled Sacred Body and the legend that its final level could make its wielder invincible.
• Phoenix Fire cautiously began absorbing resources, while Ye Lin closed his eyes and drew the surrounding treasures into his body.

After eight days of cultivation, Ye Lin reached the peak of Dao Integration and judged his foundation still insufficient. He then discovered three ancient martial techniques and learned their powers and limitations.

• Ye Lin finished cultivating for eight days, reached the peak of Dao Integration, and decided to keep tempering his foundation.
• Ye Lin gathered his violent aura into his body until he appeared like an ordinary mortal.
• Ye Lin approached the statue and imprinted Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation, Myriad Dao Killing Tribulation, and the Myriad Tribulations Immortal Body in his mind.
• Ye Lin learned that Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation could expand the body and increase strength, while Myriad Dao Killing Tribulation could form a powerful array using tribulation qi.
• Ye Lin learned that the Myriad Tribulations Immortal Body grew stronger by absorbing tribulation qi but was useless for cultivation without it.

Ye Lin chose to cultivate the Myriad Tribulations Immortal Body, then left True Martial Great Emperor's tomb after nine days. Outside, Heaven-Overturning Sacred Land's pursuers waited for the tomb to open so they could find the person who killed Ling'er.

• Ye Lin decided to cultivate the Myriad Tribulations Immortal Body and stored it and two other martial techniques in his Spatial Ring.
• Ye Lin bowed to True Martial Great Emperor's coffin and left the small world using his Identity Token.
• Eight peak Dao Integration True Lords and a True Person waited outside the tomb, believing Ling'er's killer was inside because the tomb had been opened.
• The True Person explained that Ling'er's life soul had gone out and that his investigation had led them to the tomb.
• After waiting nine days, the True Lords asked how they could break through the light barrier around the tomb.

Ye Lin ambushed the True Lords gathered near the True Martial Great Emperor’s Tomb, killing two and trapping the rest in a formation. He revealed himself in blood-red robes and challenged them as they tried to flee.

• The young man explained that only the single token could open the True Martial Great Emperor’s Tomb, whose owner had been a True Immortal.
• A hidden attacker killed one True Lord with a streak of bloody light, leaving his body dried up.
• The attacker severed another True Lord’s arm and inflicted a violent force that prevented the wound from healing.
• A second streak of bloody light killed the injured True Lord, and the remaining six tried to escape by tearing open space.
• Ye Lin raised the Four Direction Absolute Formation, sealed the void with four Long Swords, and appeared before the trapped True Lords.

Ye Lin killed the young Spirit Transformation True Person who accused him of murdering Ling'er, then fought six peak True Lords inside his sword formation. He wiped them all out, and the survivors recognized his Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art before they died.

• The young Spirit Transformation True Person pointed at Ye Lin and accused him of killing Ling'er, so Ye Lin killed him with a wave of his hand and absorbed his blood qi.
• One of the remaining six True Lords asked Ye Lin to let them go, but Ye Lin mocked them and activated the sword formation.
• Ye Lin fought the six True Lords while controlling the formation and killed two of them with sword strikes.
• A True Lord recognized Ye Lin's Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art and warned that the myriad races would hunt him if they learned he practiced it.
• Ye Lin unleashed a massive crimson sword radiance and killed everyone remaining in the formation.

Ye Lin concealed the True Martial Great Emperor's Tomb and traveled to the Endless Deep Sea, where he confronted experts from transcendent factions seeking to enter an ancient battlefield secret realm. He insisted they reveal their identities or leave, and they agreed to follow his terms.

• Ye Lin hid the True Martial Great Emperor's Tomb again and left with its Identity Token, making the tomb inaccessible to anyone without it.
• Three Heavenly Lords found a dried corpse at the tomb and ordered an investigation into who had offended the Heaven-Overturning Sacred Land.
• Ye Lin arrived at the Endless Deep Sea, where members of the Dawn Alliance greeted him before the secret realm's gate.
• Ye Lin challenged the mist-shrouded experts from transcendent factions for concealing their appearances and told them to leave if they would not reveal themselves.
• A young expert explained that the ancient battlefield contained Heaven-Slaying Beasts whose baleful-and-blood-qi gas could aid cultivation, then agreed to follow Ye Lin's terms.

Ye Lin allowed the gathered transcendent factions and his own people to enter the secret realm under a Dao Integration cultivation limit. He headed inside with the Deep Sea Imperial Clan’s heir, who wanted to test the factions’ heirs, while Ye Lin expected none of them to survive.

• The transcendent factions revealed their peak Dao Integration cultivators and asked Ye Lin for permission to enter the secret realm.
• Ye Lin confirmed with Di Yuan that everyone on his side had arrived, then permitted both groups to enter with a peak Dao Integration cultivation limit.
• The young man from the transcendent factions agreed to the rules but secretly planned to kill Ye Lin inside the secret realm.
• Ye Lin’s True Lords and the transcendent factions’ disciples rushed toward the secret realm entrance.
• The Deep Sea Imperial Clan’s heir decided to enter and test the transcendent factions, and Ye Lin went with him.

Ye Lin entered the blood-red secret realm, where black creatures emerged from the ground and forced the Dawn Alliance and the transcendent factions to put aside their feud. He discovered that the creatures’ black energy strengthened his body and began slaughtering them to absorb it.

• A Half-Immortal remained outside the secret realm to deter the ten Heavenly Lords of the transcendent factions.
• Ye Lin arrived in a corpse-covered, blood-red world as black creatures formed from streams of qi and gathered across the land.
• A young man from the transcendent factions proposed that both sides temporarily set aside their grievances, and Ye Lin agreed.
• Ye Lin flew away and killed most of the nearby creatures with one sword strike, absorbing strands of black energy that strengthened his body.
• Ye Lin continued cutting down the creatures with the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword, absorbing their energy even as their numbers kept growing.

Ye Lin led the Dawn Alliance against the transcendent factions after they crossed the agreed dividing line. Although the Alliance was suppressed, Ye Lin outmaneuvered Zhang Chao and prepared to strike from behind him.

• A black-light giant resembling Ye Lin formed, but Ye Lin dodged its punch and split it in two with his sword.
• A creature warned Ye Lin that the transcendent factions had crossed the dividing line, and Ye Lin ordered his forces to kill them.
• The Dawn Alliance clashed with the transcendent factions and was quickly suppressed by their superior resources and combat arts.
• Zhang Chao charged Ye Lin with his spear, but his attack pierced only an afterimage as Ye Lin appeared behind him.

Ye Lin exploited Zhang Chao’s lack of combat experience to wound him and pierce his heart. Zhang Chao survived by pulling himself free from the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword, and Ye Lin condemned the prodigies of the transcendent factions.

• Ye Lin slashed Zhang Chao across the back, and Zhang Chao retreated to dispel the sword qi.
• Ye Lin sent a river of swords at Zhang Chao, who blocked it with his spear technique.
• Ye Lin used the sword attack to distract Zhang Chao and stabbed him through the heart from behind.
• Zhang Chao pulled himself free from the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword and accused Ye Lin of fighting dishonorably.
• Ye Lin criticized Zhang Chao and the transcendent factions for wasting their resources on weak fighters.

Ye Lin overpowered Zhang Chao, who fled after realizing he was no match. Ye Lin used his panel to predict Zhang Chao’s next destination and set off to claim the opportunity waiting there.

• Zhang Chao unleashed his Fury Thunder attack, but twisted away and fled before Ye Lin could strike.
• Ye Lin inspected Zhang Chao’s panel and learned of his powerful family ties and an Earth Spirit Grass in a canyon cave to the northeast.
• Ye Lin realized his panel could predict where people would seek opportunities and used it to pursue Zhang Chao.

Ye Lin tracked Zhang Chao to a concealed cave in the canyon, where Zhang Chao had found an Earth Spirit Grass while recovering from their fight. Ye Lin confronted him over the herb, claiming it as his own.

• Ye Lin plunged into the canyon to search for Zhang Chao.
• Zhang Chao concealed a cave with a stone tablet and healed his injuries while reconsidering his belief that overwhelming strength alone could defeat any opponent.
• Zhang Chao discovered an Earth Spirit Grass that could nourish and repair the divine soul.
• Ye Lin broke through the cave wall after using his panel to locate Zhang Chao, then found him holding the herb.
• Ye Lin frowned at Zhang Chao and asked why he was touching his Earth Spirit Grass.

Ye Lin killed Zhang Chao for touching his Earth Spirit Grass, then encountered a nameless boy in the secret realm who begged to become his disciple. The boy’s panel showed almost no information, and Ye Lin refused to accept him, leaving the boy’s fate unresolved.

• Ye Lin accused Zhang Chao of defiling his Earth Spirit Grass and bound him with golden chains.
• Ye Lin drained Zhang Chao’s blood, killed him, and put away the Earth Spirit Grass.
• A little boy in animal skins appeared and asked Ye Lin to accept him as a disciple.
• The boy said he had no name or parents and had always lived in the secret realm.
• Ye Lin saw a panel listing the boy’s name and identity as unknown and his fate rank as incomplete.
• The boy repeatedly kowtowed, but Ye Lin told him he could not accept him as a disciple.

Ye Lin tested the desperate boy’s resolve and accepted him as a nominal disciple, naming him Ye Buqu. Ye Lin walked ahead and left Ye Buqu to prove he could keep up.

• Ye Lin told Ye Buqu that his black Fate Rank, blocked meridians, and lack of a Spirit Root left him with no future in cultivation.
• Ye Buqu rejected Ye Lin’s judgment and vowed to overcome his lack of talent and luck through his own effort.
• Ye Lin offered Ye Buqu a chance as a nominal disciple and named him Ye Buqu, warning he would abandon him if he disappointed.
• Ye Lin walked ahead, telling Ye Buqu to follow or lose their chance, and Ye Buqu stubbornly kept close behind him.

Ye Lin tested Ye Buqu’s resolve by making him follow and climb a towering cliff, while the injured child endured until his body reached its limit. Ye Lin decided to take him as his second disciple, but Ye Buqu was left clinging to the cliff with his strength fading.

• Ye Lin made the exhausted Ye Buqu keep following him for half an hour, stopping to ensure the child caught up.
• Ye Lin leaped up a towering cliff, and Ye Buqu began climbing after him despite his injuries.
• Ye Buqu repeatedly urged himself not to give up and climbed more than a hundred meters in half an hour.
• Ye Lin watched Ye Buqu from the air and decided to take him as his second disciple.
• Ye Buqu ran out of strength, clung to the cliff, and felt his grip loosening.

Ye Buqu fell into a coma after his trial, and Ye Lin caught him before he hit the ground. On the battlefield, Wuji offered to end the fighting, but Dao Slayer challenged his confidence.

• Ye Buqu fell into the gorge and collapsed into a deep coma.
• Ye Lin appeared, caught Ye Buqu, and vanished with him.
• Wuji warned the Dawn Alliance that continued fighting would leave them at a disadvantage and proposed calling it off.
• Another young man urged Wuji to slaughter the alliance, but Wuji silenced him.
• Dao Slayer questioned Wuji's confidence, and Wuji claimed the battle had been a misunderstanding stirred up by Zhang Chao.

Jiang Yuan tried to end the fighting with the Vast Sea Imperial Clan, but Dao Slayer refused to let the death of a clansman go unanswered. A black-robed Demonic Sect member joined Wu Ji, and a Dawn Alliance cultivator attacked him, leaving the battle underway.

• Jiang Yuan argued that both sides had lost the same number of prodigies and urged them to stop fighting.
• Dao Slayer rejected Jiang Yuan's proposal, enraged by the death of a pure-blooded member of the Vast Sea Imperial Clan.
• Jiang Yuan identified Dao Slayer's clan and warned that the battle would cost them more lives.
• A black-robed Demonic Sect member arrived beside Wu Ji and mocked the arguing cultivators.
• A Dawn Alliance cultivator charged the black-robed man to avenge his junior brother, but the man's skull-filled black qi tore flesh from the attacker’s shoulder.

Ye Lin arrived at the battlefield after absorbing the blood essence of fallen enemies and protected Ye Buqu. He intervened just as Wuji was close to defeating Di Yuan, and faced Wuji himself.

• Dao Slayer attacked Jiang Yuan while Di Yuan fought Wuji, reigniting the battle in the skies.
• Ye Lin absorbed the blood essence from the fallen, laid Ye Buqu down, and protected his body with a spell.
• Wuji suppressed Di Yuan and prepared to unleash his ultimate move.
• Ye Lin struck Wuji with a golden fist, and Wuji turned his anger on him.
• Ye Lin told Di Yuan to retreat and met Wuji's powerful punch.

Ye Lin revealed his Unrivaled Sacred Body and overwhelmed Wuji in their clash. Wuji was left crippled in a vast crater, while Ye Lin remained ready to finish him with his promised three punches.

• Ye Lin clashed fists with Wuji and sent him retreating, shocking him with the strength of the Unrivaled Sacred Body.
• Wuji recognized the golden runes on Ye Lin and demanded to know how he could possess the supposedly unique physique.
• Ye Lin declared that he would kill Wuji in three punches and launched the first.
• Wuji countered with Tyranny Unmatched, but Ye Lin shattered his blackish-purple chains and sent him flying.
• Ye Lin drove Wuji into the ground, leaving him bloodied with shattered meridians and bones and a damaged origin.
• Wuji roared in fury over being crippled by the Unrivaled Sacred Body again.

Ye Lin learned that his pill-awakened Unrivaled Sacred Body was flawed and that a true bearer of the physique would seek to devour him. Wuji died after warning Ye Lin of the danger ahead.

• Ye Lin healed Wuji enough to question him about why his Unrivaled Sacred Body seemed impossible.
• Wuji explained that each of the ten ancient Sacred Bodies could have only one living bearer at a time, and that another Unrivaled Sacred Body already existed among the transcendent factions.
• Wuji asked Ye Lin to kill him with the Saint-Falling Fist, then realized Ye Lin did not know the technique.
• Wuji revealed that pill-awakened Sacred Bodies were flawed, that Ye Lin would need to devour a true Unrivaled Sacred Body to mend his, and that the true bearer could grow stronger by devouring Ye Lin.
• Wuji laughed, spat blood, and died while staring at Ye Lin.

After killing Wuji, Ye Lin anticipated meeting his future nemesis, Saint-Falling Fist, and joined the battle in the sky. He challenged Jiang Yuan to survive three punches, prompting Jiang Yuan to attack him.

• Ye Lin pondered Wuji's words about a powerful future nemesis and looked forward to meeting Saint-Falling Fist.
• Ye Lin drained Wuji into a dried corpse and turned toward the battle, where the Dawn Alliance was gaining the advantage.
• Dao Slayer warned Ye Lin that Jiang Yuan was strong, then departed as Ye Lin arrived.
• Jiang Yuan recognized Ye Lin's Unrivaled Sacred Body and recalled the sealed original owner of that body.
• Ye Lin said Jiang Yuan would take three punches to kill, and Jiang Yuan healed his wound and launched a punch at him.

Ye Lin pursued Jiang Yuan after Jiang Yuan fled the battle, while Dao Slayer and Di Yuan secured the Dawn Alliance's victory and found Ye Buqu. Ye Lin blasted apart Jiang Yuan’s hiding place, and Jiang Yuan tried to intimidate him by invoking the Innate Dao Sect.

• Jiang Yuan abandoned his fight with Ye Lin and left, saying he wanted to watch Ye Lin die at someone else's hands.
• Ye Lin put on a mask, changed his aura, and pursued Jiang Yuan.
• Dao Slayer and Di Yuan helped rout the transcendent factions' prodigies, and Dao Slayer ordered the Dawn Alliance members to kill the survivors.
• Dao Slayer and Di Yuan found Ye Buqu held by Ye Lin's restriction, freed him, and took him along.
• Ye Lin called out to Jiang Yuan and shattered the mountain range where he was hiding with a punch.
• Jiang Yuan appeared before Ye Lin and warned that the Innate Dao Sect would retaliate if Ye Lin killed him.

Ye Lin killed Jiang Yuan and slaughtered the other prodigies in the secret realm, growing so powerful that he had to suppress his cultivation to avoid breaking through to Tribulation Transcendence. He left the realm before it closed, with his cultivation at its peak.

• Ye Lin seized Jiang Yuan and suppressed him with his aura.
• Ye Lin absorbed Jiang Yuan until he became a withered corpse, then reduced his body to ash and took the Spatial Ring.
• Ye Lin found few valuable items in the ring and continued killing every prodigy he encountered in the secret realm.
• Ye Lin suppressed his cultivation after reaching its peak and left the secret realm before it closed.

Ye Lin left the secret realm with Ye Buqu while the guardians of the missing sect prodigies demanded an explanation. At Nameless Mountain, Ye Lin healed Ye Buqu, who awoke on high alert after years of surviving alone in the secret realm.

• Ye Lin emerged from the secret realm as the guardians confronted him over their missing prodigies, and he told them to investigate for themselves.
• Ye Lin dismissed their threats and left with Ye Buqu while the other survivors departed with their gains.
• At Nameless Mountain, Ye Lin healed Ye Buqu with a tap of his finger.
• Ye Buqu awoke, sprang to his feet, and scanned his surroundings with the vigilance he had developed in the secret realm.

Ye Lin accepted Ye Buqu as his second disciple and began training him despite his terrible talent. After absorbing a barrel of precious medicinal liquid, Ye Buqu had all his meridians opened, but Ye Lin found he still could not cultivate and began using more incantation seals on him.

• Ye Lin told Ye Buqu he had passed the test and become his second disciple, then ordered him to follow.
• Ye Lin made Ye Buqu hold a horse stance while he prepared a barrel of medicinal liquid with precious herbs.
• After Ye Buqu exhausted himself holding the stance, Ye Lin ordered him into the barrel and helped him absorb the liquid safely.
• Ye Buqu absorbed all the medicinal liquid, but Ye Lin found that it had only barely opened his meridians and that he still could not cultivate.
• Ye Lin formed seals and sent them into Ye Buqu's body.