Recaps

Ye Lin entered the Holy Pool and began absorbing its precious contents, prompting fifteen peak experts to attack him. Hong Batian killed all fifteen, and explosions then rang out across the Eternal Balance World.

• Shuo Feng was killed by Hong Batian in a burst of red light.
• Ye Lin leapt into the Holy Pool and greedily absorbed its water, rapidly lowering its level.
• Fifteen peak God Emperor experts appeared and prepared to attack Ye Lin to protect the Holy Pool.
• Hong Batian mocked the fifteen experts and pressed both hands down, making them explode into blood mist.
• After the God Emperors died, explosions rang out throughout the Eternal Balance World.

Ye Lin completed the Unrivaled Sacred Body and swallowed the qilin blood essence while Hong Batian fought the Eternal Balance World's Heavenly Dao to buy him time. Hong Batian transformed into a phoenix and doubled his combat power, but the battle continued as the world trembled.

• A massive earthquake shattered space as the Heavenly Dao appeared and attacked Hong Batian with increasingly powerful bolts of purple lightning.
• Ye Lin completed the Unrivaled Sacred Body and received the nine-punch Saint-Falling Fist in his mind.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar gave Ye Lin the qilin blood essence, and Hong Batian promised to hold off the Heavenly Dao for ten minutes.
• Ye Lin swallowed the qilin blood essence and endured its scorching effects as white mist enveloped him.
• Hong Batian, badly charred from the fight, transformed into a fiery phoenix and doubled his combat power, leaving the world's experts horrified.

Hong Batian confronted the Heavenly Dao after killing fifteen Divine Emperors, then agreed to leave after ten minutes when it threatened him with the world's power. As the world settled, Ye Lin broke through to the Mahayana realm while still holding most of the Qilin blood essence in his dantian.

• Divine-race experts marveled at Hong Batian's strength and wondered whether they could follow a path beyond the Divine Emperor realm.
• The Heavenly Dao gathered the world's power and warned Hong Batian to leave, and he negotiated ten minutes before departing.
• The Heavenly Dao explained that Hong Batian's killing of fifteen Divine Emperors had disrupted its arranged future timeline and the world's balance.
• Ye Lin broke through to the Mahayana realm and discovered that he had absorbed only one-tenth of the Qilin blood essence.

Ye Lin and Hong Batian left the ruined Holy Pool after Ye Lin reached the Mahayana stage and gained the ability to open interrealm passages. They arrived at the Qilin Empire’s ruined capital and found that the Golden Crow Empire had conquered the Qilin Empire.

• Ye Lin noted that his physical strength had grown enormously, while his divine soul strength still lagged behind.
• Hong Batian warned Ye Lin that Heavenly Dao’s tolerance had reached its limit and urged him to leave.
• Ye Lin opened an interrealm passage, and he and Hong Batian took Old Garden with them before departing.
• Order Taboos inspected the vanished Holy Pool, lamented their lack of a path forward, and dispersed after witnessing Hong Batian’s power.
• Ye Lin and Hong Batian arrived at the Qilin Empire’s imperial capital and found Golden Crow Empire soldiers amid the ruins.
• The Golden Crow Empire had taken the Qilin Empire’s territory in three days, and its cities had surrendered after the Emperor’s death.

Ye Lin found Old Garden and brought him and Hong Batian to meet Fu Heng, who was still reading outdated reports about the war. Ye Lin told Fu Heng that the Qilin Empire had fallen and came to make him honor his promise, but Fu Heng refused to believe him.

• Ye Lin located Old Garden, who revealed the ruined city he had conjured and recalled the woman who once lived there.
• Ye Lin, Old Garden, and Hong Batian left to find Fu Heng.
• Fu Heng read reports claiming the Third Prince had declared war on the Qilin Empire and criticized his strategy.
• Ye Lin told Fu Heng that the Qilin Empire had already fallen and demanded that he honor his promise.
• Fu Heng called Ye Lin's claim impossible and accused him of making it up to force the promise.

Fu Heng confirmed that the Qilin Empire had been destroyed, gave Ye Lin a black Sword Talisman, and sent Ye Lin, Hong Batian, and Old Garden away. They reappeared in the Endless Deep Sea, where Ye Lin said they had reached an entirely new world, but Old Garden doubted him.

• Fu Heng verified that the Golden Crow Empire had annihilated the Qilin Empire and destroyed its capital.
• Fu Heng replaced his promised surprise with a stroke of fortune and gave Ye Lin a black Sword Talisman to keep close.
• Fu Heng sent Ye Lin, Hong Batian, and Old Garden away, then vanished as the Eternal Balance World collapsed into a wasteland.
• Ye Lin and the others reappeared in the Endless Deep Sea beside a bronze gate and surrounding marine creatures.
• Old Garden guessed they were in the Boundless Sea, but Ye Lin said they had arrived in an entirely new world, which Old Garden did not believe.

Ye Lin showed Old Garden that the new world had no divine power and explained that its energy belonged to a different system. Meanwhile, Hong Batian failed to reopen the bronze gate, watched it vanish, and remained trapped in the Xuanhuang Great World with his strength suppressed.

• Ye Lin told Old Garden to test the world's laws, and Old Garden found that his divine power could not resonate with the energy around him.
• Ye Lin took Old Garden out of the deep sea to show him the world.
• Hong Batian sensed no life beyond the bronze gate and tried to open it, but it would not move.
• Hong Batian struck the gate, causing it to turn illusory and disappear into the Endless Deep Sea.
• Hong Batian realized that the Xuanhuang Great World's Heavenly Dao could kill him and that its suppressive force had reduced his cultivation to the level of a Three Tribulations Loose Immortal.

Ye Lin showed Old Garden the vast Xuanhuang Great World and promised to help him become an immortal. When Ye Lin tried to recall Xiaoyao after sensing his call for help, Xiaoyao resisted because he wanted to protect a girl in red from three Beast Emperors and their sea-beast forces.

• Ye Lin took Old Garden across the Eastern Continent, convincing him that they had entered a new and immensely vast world.
• Ye Lin explained immortals to Old Garden and offered to help him attain immortality if he performed well.
• Ye Lin sensed Xiaoyao calling for help and used a secret art to try to pull his avatar back.
• Xiaoyao resisted Ye Lin's will, and Ye Lin saw him wounded and surrounded by three Beast Emperors and countless sea beasts.
• Xiaoyao said he wanted to protect the girl in red standing behind him.

Xiaoyao faced three peak-Mahayana sea beasts seeking revenge for their clan’s young master, while Ye Lin agreed to reach him within half an hour. The sea beasts threatened Xiaoyao’s disciple Ye Yun, and Xiaoyao prepared to fight to protect her.

• Ye Lin warned Xiaoyao that he might die if he kept protecting Ye Yun, but Xiaoyao pleaded for one chance to save her.
• Ye Lin agreed to arrive within half an hour, then ordered Hong Batian to travel to the Southern Continent with him.
• Three peak-Mahayana sea beasts confronted Xiaoyao and demanded he surrender for killing their clan’s young master.
• Xiaoyao asked whether surrendering would spare Ye Yun, but the sea beasts declared that everyone connected to him must die.
• Xiaoyao drew his Long Sword as Ye Yun urged him to escape and said she had no regrets about dying for him.

Xiaoyao burned his life fighting three peak Mahayana sea beasts to protect Ye Yun, but they defeated him and moved to kill her. He opened a spatial rift and urged Ye Yun to escape, but she refused to leave him.

• Xiaoyao shielded Ye Yun and fought the three sea beasts with his sword, burning his life to increase his strength.
• The sea beasts overwhelmed Xiaoyao and left him gravely injured on the ground.
• One sea beast moved to kill Ye Yun while the others prepared to take Xiaoyao away.
• Xiaoyao summoned a Sword Qi River to slow the attack and opened a spatial rift for Ye Yun.
• Ye Yun clung to Xiaoyao and refused to leave him.

A young man rescued Ye Yun from the sea beasts and revealed that he was her brother, who had searched for her for twenty years. When Ye Yun refused to leave without Xiaoyao, the young man confronted Fanyun and identified himself as a Slaughterer.

• Xiaoyao shoved Ye Yun toward a spatial rift, but a sea beast caught her and knocked Xiaoyao down.
• A young man appeared, rescued Ye Yun, and told her he was her brother who had searched for her for twenty years.
• Ye Yun refused to leave with her brother unless he also took her master.
• The young man swatted aside Fanyun's tentacle and called the Eight-Tentacled Beast Emperor Clan lackeys of the Royal Clan.
• The young man charged at Fanyun with a dagger, and Fanyun recognized him as the Slaughterer.

Zhao Ran rescued Ye Yun from Fanyun by bluffing that he belonged to the Slayers, but Fanyun caught up with him and discovered his true cultivation. The chapter ended with Fanyun preparing to torment Zhao Ran while Ye Yun wept beside her wounded master, Xiaoyao.

• The Slayers were described as an organization formed by Southern Continent creatures to hunt arrogant sea beasts.
• Zhao Ran pretended to challenge Fanyun, then fled with Ye Yun while Fanyun believed his bluff.
• Fanyun sent his tentacles after Zhao Ran, who had left Xiaoyao badly wounded behind.
• Ye Yun begged Zhao Ran to save Xiaoyao, but Zhao Ran said he could not defeat the Mahayana-stage sea beasts.
• Fanyun's tentacle caught Zhao Ran and dragged him back, where Fanyun realized Zhao Ran was only a Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Fanyun confronted Zhao Ran about deceiving him, while Zhao Ran suspected Fanyun intended to torture him.

As Fanyun prepared to kill Zhao Ran, Xiaoyao died after telling Ye Yun to live well, and a Flood Dragon arrived to attack the group. A bolt of lightning destroyed the Flood Dragon’s blue pillar of light, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Zhao Ran told Fanyun that Slayers were on their way, but Fanyun dismissed the threat as the sea beasts began to retreat.
• Xiaoyao apologized to Ye Yun, told her he could see her brother coming, and died.
• Fanyun attacked Zhao Ran, but golden light burst from Zhao Ran’s chest and freed him.
• A Flood Dragon appeared, scolded Fanyun, and unleashed a blue pillar of light that shattered the surrounding space.
• Zhao Ran wondered why the promised Slayers great power had not arrived, then lightning struck from the heavens and crushed the blue pillar of light.

Ye Lin arrived after Xiaoyao died and used the legendary Sword Heart Demon Seed to revive his clone. Ye Yun and Zhao Ran watched from behind him as the seed took effect.

• Ye Lin appeared before Xiaoyao's corpse, while Ye Yun and Zhao Ran struggled to distinguish him from Xiaoyao.
• Ye Lin examined Ye Yun's panel and recognized her as a talented disciple with a dangerous future.
• Ye Lin placed the Sword Heart Demon Seed into Xiaoyao's mouth and pressed a sword sign to his forehead, causing golden light to spread across Xiaoyao's body.
• Ye Lin warned Ye Yun and Zhao Ran to stand behind him before the coming commotion began.

Old Garden let the Flood Dragon flee, then killed him despite his escape to the deep sea, provoking the dragon clan chief. Meanwhile, Xiaoyao was enveloped in golden light as his Sword Heart Demon Seed caused a vast disturbance across Southern Continent.

• Old Garden whipped and injured the Flood Dragon, then gave him three breaths to escape.
• The Flood Dragon used a secret art to flee to the deep sea and planned to ask his clan chief to attack Southern Continent.
• Old Garden's golden whip struck through shattered space and killed the Flood Dragon in a cloud of blood.
• An enormous old Flood Dragon appeared over the deep sea and accused Southern Continent of starting a war.
• A pillar of golden light lifted Xiaoyao into the sky as Sword Dao Rules and a river of sword qi surrounded him.
• A voice across Southern Continent expressed disbelief that someone possessed a Sword Heart Demon Seed.

The Sword Heart Demon Seed revived Xiaoyao and drew the attention of transcendent factions, but a powerful, mysterious expert warned them not to interfere. Xiaoyao awoke at the peak of the Mahayana stage, confused by his return from death.

• Transcendent factions recognized the Sword Heart Demon Seed as a heaven-defying treasure, and some moved to claim it.
• A mysterious expert struck down cultivators who tried to observe the scene and warned everyone against targeting the Sword Heart Demon Seed.
• The Sword Heart Demon Seed drew spiritual energy into Xiaoyao, restoring his life and advancing his Sword Dao.
• Ye Lin watched the revival and reflected on how difficult the Sword Heart Demon Seed was to create.
• Xiaoyao awoke, found his body intact and his cultivation at the peak of the Mahayana stage, and wondered how he had returned from death.

Ye Lin revived Xiaoyao with the Sword Heart Demon Seed, and Xiaoyao returned at the peak of Mahayana, raising Ye Lin’s cultivation to the same level. Ye Yun questioned how Ye Lin and Xiaoyao could share the same appearance and aura.

• Xiaoyao realized he had returned to life and reached the peak of Mahayana.
• Xiaoyao appeared before Ye Lin, and Ye Yun rejoiced that her master had been revived.
• Zhao Ran explained that Ye Lin had used the Sword Heart Demon Seed to revive Xiaoyao.
• Xiaoyao thanked Ye Lin, who said their shared fate made Xiaoyao’s survival important to him.
• Ye Lin’s cultivation also rose to the peak of Mahayana, and he noticed a possible loophole in the One Breath Becomes Three Purities technique.
• Ye Yun asked Xiaoyao how he and Ye Lin could have identical appearances and auras.

Ye Lin left for the Central Continent, drawn by a mysterious calling despite Xiaoyao’s warning that it had become a stronghold for Outer Realm Heavenly Demons. A young man resolved to follow him there and fight, while his master warned that the world faced a trial that could destroy them all.

• Xiaoyao said he and Hong Batian had been brothers for a long time before Ye Lin announced he was leaving for the Central Continent.
• Ye Lin vanished into space, followed by Hong Batian and Old Garden.
• A young man told his master he was determined to battle Ye Lin, and the force of his resolve sent fish flying from the lake.
• The master warned that Ye Lin might be one who rose in response to the calamity and described the invasion as a deadly trial for the world.
• The young man departed for the Central Continent, promising to follow Ye Lin if he lost and kill him if he won.

Ye Lin learned that becoming an immortal in the sealed Profound Yellow World required gathering five representative items to awaken the world's will, and he and his companions crossed the barrier into Central Continent. Hong Batian’s hands were left wounded and corroded by the barrier’s power.

• The old man told his arrogant disciple that setbacks could be good for him, then left after the fish in the lake had been killed.
• Hong Batian found a barrier of world power blocking the way into Central Continent, and Ye Lin asked whether it could be broken.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar had told Ye Lin that immortality could be achieved by gathering five items from the continents and using them to awaken the world's will.
• Hong Batian tore open a small gap in the barrier, and he, Ye Lin, and their companion rushed through it before it closed.
• Hong Batian found that the barrier had wounded his hands and was corroding them.

Hong Batian, Ye Lin, and Old Garden arrived in a Central Continent overrun by demonic qi and encountered two Outer Realm Heavenly Demons boasting about eating humans. Ye Lin restrained them and began questioning them, leaving the group poised to learn what had happened to the human race.

• Hong Batian used immortal power to purge most of the world will from their hands.
• Ye Lin noticed the Central Continent's thin spiritual qi and the faint demonic qi in the air.
• Old Garden sensed someone approaching, and the three concealed themselves.
• Two Outer Realm Heavenly Demons discussed eating human cultivators and a sect, and talked about humans being kept in pens elsewhere.
• Ye Lin and his companions appeared and immobilized the demons with their power.
• Ye Lin demanded answers from the demons, who obediently agreed to respond.

Ye Lin learned that the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons had conquered Central Continent and killed the two demons who informed him. When he tried to inspect Old Garden’s panel, he discovered it was undergoing a three-month upgrade.

• A demon told Ye Lin that the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons controlled all thirty-two commanderies of Central Continent, with only a few human forces resisting.
• Ye Lin praised the two demons for their honesty, then killed them to prevent them from returning with reinforcements.
• Hong Batian realized Central Continent’s fall could mean the other continents were in danger, and his hopes for the Profound Yellow World faded.
• Ye Lin tried to inspect Old Garden’s panel and saw a notice that it would undergo maintenance and an upgrade for three months, followed by a compensation gift pack.

Ye Lin followed a strange pull toward the Immortal-Treading Grass, while the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained that it could identify the plant but would not reveal more. Elsewhere, a proud young master entered the demon-infested Central Continent alone, and his attendant departed after warning him to call for help if needed.

• Ye Lin took the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar out of his Spatial Ring, and it complained about being trapped in frozen darkness.
• Ye Lin asked where to find the Immortal-Treading Grass, and the jar told him to trust the feeling drawing him forward.
• A young man reached the Central Continent and ordered his attendant to leave him to explore alone.
• The attendant warned the young man that Outer Realm Heavenly Demons had overrun most of the Central Continent and told him to use his Identity Token if he faced danger.
• The young man flew away, and the attendant departed.

A young man lamented that no one could challenge him as he waited for a long-awaited battle with Ye Lin. Meanwhile, an old master and his five disciples were discovered hiding from Outer Realm Heavenly Demons, who threatened to eat them.

• A young man said he looked forward to fighting Ye Lin and wondered whether Ye Lin had grown stronger.
• An old master led five disciples into a mountain cave to avoid Outer Realm Heavenly Demons and recover their sect’s guarding treasure.
• Two Outer Realm Heavenly Demons discovered the group and argued over how to divide them as food.
• The demons threatened to eat the group alive unless they came out, and the disciples looked to their master for help.
• The old master told his disciples to follow him out of the cave without saying a word.

The old man discovered that the two Outer Realm Heavenly Demons were only in the Golden Core Realm and easily subdued them. After they sent a distress signal before dying, he tried to flee with his disciples, but another enemy appeared and called them blood food.

• The old man led his five disciples out of the cave and faced two identical Outer Realm Heavenly Demons.
• The demons attacked, and the old man realized they were only in the Golden Core Realm.
• The old man used his Nascent Soul power to pin the demons down, but they sent a signal for help with their glowing horns.
• The old man crushed the two demons into blood mist and warned his disciples that a vanguard general might be coming.
• As the old man and his disciples tried to leave, someone called them blood food.

A Demonic Sect member attacked the Vanguard General, who fought back before fleeing, while his five disciples ran toward their sect in search of its supreme treasure. As the disciples fled, a winged Tiger spotted them and roared.

• The Vanguard General’s five disciples abandoned him and fled when the Demonic Sect member confronted them.
• The Demonic Sect member fought the Vanguard General, cutting through his chains and knocking him away with a saber strike.
• The wounded Vanguard General vanished, and the Demonic Sect member pursued the disciples instead.
• The senior brother led the disciples toward their sect, hoping to find its supreme treasure, and guessed that their Master might be dead.
• A winged Tiger spotted the fleeing disciples and roared at them.