Recaps

Ye Lin and Liu Bai traveled together through the Star River after Liu Bai removed the Blood Baleful Sect’s tracking mark. The chapter ended with Liu Bai leading Ye Lin deeper into the stars, while Ye Lin remained puzzled by Liu Bai’s cryptic warning about his wine.

• Liu Bai returned Ye Lin to the Star River and explained that the illusion had fooled even an Earth Immortal.
• Liu Bai told Ye Lin that he had removed the mark that let the Blood Baleful Sect track him, and they set off together.
• Ye Lin guarded Liu Bai while Liu Bai encountered an opportunity to comprehend the Dao.
• After three days of enlightenment, Liu Bai completed a breakthrough and thanked Ye Lin for guarding his Dao.
• Liu Bai and Ye Lin continued deeper into the Star River, and Ye Lin recalled Liu Bai saying he was not yet fated to taste the wine.

Ye Lin and Liu Bai arrived at Saintess Star, where Liu Bai explained the value of the heaven-and-earth variants and challenged Ye Lin to a contest to hunt them. The chapter ended with Ye Lin learning that losing the bet would cost him an enormous amount of Star Brew.

• Ye Lin and Liu Bai arrived at Saintess Star and descended to its bustling surface.
• Liu Bai identified a mountain-sized white creature as a heaven-and-earth variant and explained that its Demon Core could be sold for immortal stones.
• Liu Bai drew his cyan sword, and Ye Lin challenged him to see who could kill more variants in one hour.
• Liu Bai wagered that Ye Lin would have to pour a ton of Star Brew into his wine gourd if he lost, while promising to teach Ye Lin a sword-art divine ability if he lost.
• Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar told Ye Lin that half a jin of Star Brew cost ten thousand low-grade immortal stones.

Ye Lin and Liu Bai slaughtered strange creatures on Saintess Star while its general rejected a subordinate’s proposal to kill them, deciding their presence could ease the fighting. Ye Lin learned that the creatures’ blood could revive mortals and extend ordinary cultivators’ lifespans, though it was useless to immortals.

• Ye Lin balked at the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar’s price for the creature’s blood, then resolved to prove himself against Liu Bai.
• Ye Lin charged into battle with the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword and kept Bai Ling concealed to avoid attracting attention in the Star River.
• A young general urged the golden-armored general to execute Ye Lin and Liu Bai before they revealed Saintess Star’s strange creatures to other factions.
• The golden-armored general refused, warning that the two were too powerful to confront and that their killing of the creatures could ease the defenders’ burden.
• Ye Lin killed an Earth Immortal realm creature, whose blood made plants erupt across the land, and the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained the blood’s benefits to mortals and ordinary cultivators.

Ye Lin searched for Liu Bai’s opportunity on Saintess Star and found the Mutated Sacred Gold inside a spatial rift before Liu Bai could claim it. After leaving with his gains, Ye Lin faced someone who accused him of slaughtering their people and threatened to execute him.

• Ye Lin noticed that Saintess Star held many powerful exotic creatures of heaven and earth and suspected the star hid a great secret.
• Liu Bai killed three early Earth Immortal exotic creatures with a sword strike while Ye Lin searched for signs of Liu Bai’s opportunity.
• Ye Lin deliberately walked ahead of Liu Bai and found the spatial rift containing the Mutated Sacred Gold.
• Ye Lin entered the rift, retrieved the golden crystal, and left before the power of the void could threaten him.
• Ye Lin weighed two Demon Cores and accepted that he might lose before an accuser declared him guilty of slaughtering their people and sentenced him to death.

Ye Lin faced Bai Cai, a late-stage Earth Immortal and White Fox Clan elder, after killing Bai Cai’s clansmen. Bai Cai accepted Ye Lin’s blunt explanation and challenged him to a fight to the death.

• Bai Cai arrived and confronted Ye Lin over the White Fox Clan members he had killed.
• Ye Lin learned that Bai Cai possessed the White Fox Sacred Body, which could awaken Heavenly Fox blood when he was grievously wounded.
• Bai Cai demanded that Ye Lin answer for killing his clansmen, while Ye Lin said he had done it to grow stronger.
• Bai Cai approved of Ye Lin’s honesty and declared that one of them would die in their battle.

Ye Lin and Bai Cai fought one-on-one while Liu Bai watched, and the White Fox Clan held back from intervening. When Liu Bai decided it was time to leave, Ye Lin broke off the battle and escaped with him from Saintess Star.

• Bai Cai charged at Ye Lin, and the two began fighting as the White Fox Clan gathered to watch.
• Bai Cai ordered his clansmen not to interfere, declaring that he would accept defeat rather than win through numbers.
• Ye Lin and Bai Cai traded spells without either gaining the upper hand, while Liu Bai watched from the shadows.
• Liu Bai told Ye Lin to stop playing around and leave.
• Ye Lin taunted Bai Cai, then fled toward the heavens with Liu Bai, and the two departed Saintess Star.

Ye Lin and Liu Bai escaped Bai Cai without fighting, and Liu Bai urged Ye Lin to open his heart as he pursued the Great Dao. Ye Lin reflected on how his encounters had changed him but resolved to keep walking his own path.

• Bai Cai let Ye Lin leave, then departed after a white fox asked why he had not pursued them.
• Liu Bai asked Ye Lin why he had spared Bai Cai, and Ye Lin said Bai Cai had no grudge against him and that killing him could draw a Celestial Immortal.
• Liu Bai told Ye Lin that he had once been cold, bloodthirsty, and distrustful, and advised him to open his heart to the world.
• Ye Lin reflected that loneliness had made him guarded, though he had wanted to pursue Xiaoyao's great freedom.
• Ye Lin concluded that his Dao heart was already firm and that he would continue along his own path, even as people and events influenced him.

Ye Lin entered the dangerous state of questioning the heart as Liu Bai reflected on the perils of reaching Da Luo and urged him to correct his Dao while he still could. Liu Bai recognized the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar and advised it to consider beginning anew, leaving its future choice unresolved.

• Ye Lin stood motionless in the Star River as he questioned why his Dao differed from the one he had envisioned.
• Liu Bai returned, recognized Ye Lin’s questioning-the-heart state, and warned that awakening late could ruin a cultivator’s path.
• Liu Bai revealed that he had once abandoned his cultivation and reincarnated after questioning his own heart too late.
• Liu Bai addressed the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar, which greeted him as its former master’s old friend, Lord Sword Immortal.
• Liu Bai explained that the Devil Ancestor had sacrificed himself to preserve the jar and suggested the Devil Ancestor might return through the river of time.
• Liu Bai urged the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar to consider taking Ye Lin as its master or casting everything aside to begin anew.

After five days in a mysterious state, Ye Lin awakened with a major breakthrough and met Yuexi, a powerful saintess whose opportunities and future he learned about. The three traveled together to Sky Cloud Star, where Yuexi was searching for the child of her master's old friend.

• Liu Bai and Yuexi watched Ye Lin remain shrouded in mist for five days, and Liu Bai worried that he might have become lost in his state of cultivation.
• Ye Lin awakened, declared his resolve to remain true to himself, and unleashed an aura that shattered the surrounding stars.
• Ye Lin greeted Yuexi and used his panel to learn about her background, her foretold fate, and her opportunities, including a Purifying White Lotus on Sky Cloud Star.
• Liu Bai teased Ye Lin for staring at Yuexi, and Ye Lin claimed she reminded him of an old acquaintance.
• Ye Lin, Liu Bai, and Yuexi traveled together for three days and nights and arrived at Sky Cloud Star.

Yuexi, Ye Lin, and Liu Bai entered Sky Cloud Star, where Yuexi’s Holy Land identity won them immediate passage. Yuexi directed Liu Bai and Ye Lin toward the sacred mountain in the north and gave them her token before leaving to handle her own business.

• Ye Lin decided that he would need to buy a Flying Boat to avoid wasting time on long journeys.
• Liu Bai explained that Sky Cloud Star required visitors to pass through a checkpoint and register.
• Yuexi showed her Identity Token to the Earth Immortal guard, who recognized her status and escorted the three inside without an inspection.
• Yuexi told Liu Bai that what he sought was in the sacred mountain to the north, and Liu Bai said Ye Lin was headed to the same destination.
• Yuexi gave Liu Bai and Ye Lin her token to make their journey easier, then left to attend to her own business.

Yuexi gave Liu Bai an Identity Token before leaving, and Ye Lin inspected Liu Bai’s extraordinary fate and opportunities. The chapter ended with Ye Lin doubting that Liu Bai would receive an immortal-tier secret art merely because he pleased a mysterious old man.

• Yuexi handed Liu Bai an Identity Token and said farewell to him and Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin wondered why Yuexi had not given him a token and examined Liu Bai’s identity and fate.
• Ye Lin learned that Liu Bai was destined to gain a divine soul secret art, discover a mysterious pearl, and rescue Yuexi.
• Ye Lin read that Liu Bai’s mysterious pearl was one of the twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls, which could grant three wishes when gathered together.
• Ye Lin scoffed at Liu Bai’s luck and doubted that a mysterious old man would give him an immortal-tier secret art just because he looked pleasing.

Liu Bai and Ye Lin approached the Sacred Mountain to seek a secret soul technique, despite being warned away. Liu Bai showed Yuexi’s Identity Token, and the golden figure recognized it and welcomed them in.

• Liu Bai invited Ye Lin to visit the Sacred Mountain, and they headed there together.
• A voice warned Liu Bai and Ye Lin that unauthorized visitors would be killed if they continued.
• A golden figure appeared and demanded to know why they had entered the Sacred Mountain.
• Liu Bai explained that they sought a secret soul technique, but the golden figure said outsiders could not enter during the young lord’s celebration.
• Liu Bai presented Yuexi’s Identity Token, and the golden figure recognized it as the Saintess of the Firmament Sacred Land’s token and let them pass.

Liu Bai and Ye Lin entered the sacred mountain to seek the divine soul secret art, while the golden figure left them to rely on themselves. Outside Sky Cloud Star, visiting factions mocked the Third Elder of the Blood Baleful Sect over his disheveled appearance and the sect’s war.

• Liu Bai used the Firmament Sacred Land Saintess's Identity Token to enter the sacred mountain with Ye Lin, and the golden figure warned them that obtaining the divine soul secret art was up to them.
• The golden figure said he had warned the sacred mountain's inhabitants not to cause trouble, then vanished.
• Liu Bai chose to head east, trusting his instincts, and Ye Lin followed him.
• Representatives of numerous factions gathered outside Sky Cloud Star for the young master's birthday.
• The Third Elder of the Blood Baleful Sect endured taunts about his appearance and the war with the Peaceful Billows Domain, then told the others to mind their own affairs.

Ye Lin watched as an old beggar tried to recruit Liu Bai as his disciple, but Liu Bai refused and accepted a cultivation method instead. The chapter left Liu Bai studying the seemingly chaotic book, which he recognized as containing profound mysteries.

• The Third Elder entered Sky Cloud Star while rival factions discussed the war between Peaceful Billows Domain and the Blood Baleful Sect and hoped to profit from the old ghosts' deaths.
• Ye Lin watched as a ragged old beggar circled Liu Bai and offered to make him his disciple.
• Liu Bai refused, explaining that he would not accept anyone as his master.
• The old beggar offered Liu Bai a method to strengthen his Soul Power and handed him a book titled Tathagata Palm.
• Liu Bai opened the book, recognized the disordered text's hidden mysteries, and thanked the old beggar.

An old man gave Ye Lin a book concealing a divine soul secret art, while Ye Lin learned that the Holy Spring lay at the center of the Holy Mountain. He headed there under disguise, planning to slip into the young master's birthday celebration and steal some of the treasure.

• The old man handed Ye Lin a book titled Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms and vanished, and Liu Bai warned Ye Lin not to underestimate it before disappearing as well.
• Ye Lin asked the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar where the Holy Spring was, and it directed him to the center of the Holy Mountain.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar suggested Ye Lin blend in with the guests at the young master's birthday celebration and sneak inside to steal treasure.
• Ye Lin concealed his aura with talismans and headed toward the center of the Holy Mountain.
• Distinguished figures from across Sky Cloud Star arrived at the lavish celebration, presenting gifts and gathering to discuss business.

Ye Lin entered the Holy Mountain celebration by presenting a valuable sword as a gift, then followed the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar toward the Holy Spring. He slipped into the forbidden grounds and continued toward the spring, where an old Celestial Immortal might be guarding it.

• Ye Lin presented a top-grade Heaven Grade long sword and registered as Rogue Cultivator Li Bai.
• Ye Lin followed the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar's directions, picking up and eating treasures along the way.
• Two Mahayana cultivators stopped Ye Lin at the entrance to the Holy Mountain's forbidden grounds and warned him not to enter.
• After the guards left, Ye Lin concealed himself and slipped into the forbidden grounds.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar directed Ye Lin toward the Holy Spring and warned him to avoid the old Celestial Immortal stationed nearby.

Ye Lin reached the forbidden grounds and found the Sacred Spring beneath a chained Black Tortoise, who asked him to break the lamp on its back in exchange for helping him take the spring. Ye Lin agreed and began striking the lamp, while the Black Tortoise remained bound.

• Ye Lin found a ten-thousand-meter Black Tortoise chained in the forbidden grounds, with the Sacred Spring beneath its body.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar told Ye Lin that the Black Tortoise clan was powerful and would retaliate if it learned of the captive's plight.
• The Black Tortoise revealed that it had hidden Ye Lin from the Celestials and offered to help him obtain the Sacred Spring if he smashed the lamp on its back.
• Ye Lin agreed, climbed onto the Black Tortoise, and punched the green lamp until its light dimmed.

Ye Lin freed the Black Tortoise, which broke its chains and promised to draw its enemies’ attention while he collected the Holy Spring water. The Black Tortoise warned him to stay hidden on Sky Cloud Star, and Ye Lin learned that its clan was powerful enough to dwarf the forces gathered there.

• Ye Lin extinguished the flames, causing the runes on the Black Tortoise’s chains to fade.
• The Black Tortoise rose, snapped its chains, and gave Ye Lin a pearl token before charging toward the plaza to confront its captors.
• Ye Lin rushed to the Holy Spring and filled containers with its water while the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained the Black Tortoise clan’s immense power.
• Ye Lin reconsidered the scale of Sky Cloud Star and the Purple Cloud Star System after hearing the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar’s warning.

A Black Turtle Ancestor received a distress signal from a member of his clan and ordered Xuan Dang to travel to the Purple Cloud Star System and kill anyone who opposed them. Other Black Turtles also hurried there, leaving the fate of the imprisoned clan member and the system uncertain.

• The Black Turtle Ancestor sensed a distress signal from his clan's bloodline and learned that a descendant had been imprisoned.
• The Black Turtle Ancestor summoned Xuan Dang and ordered him to kill anyone who blocked him or refused to submit.
• The Black Turtle Ancestor's words destroyed surrounding star systems, killing their inhabitants and terrifying the True Immortals who survived.
• Xuan Dang bowed to the Black Turtle Ancestor and entered the river of time to travel faster.
• Other Black Turtles set out for the Purple Cloud Star System, enraged that one of their descendants had been attacked.

Ye Lin collected Sky Cloud Star’s Holy Spring and found a Sea-Calming Divine Pearl hidden beneath it. He escaped the Holy Mountain as a battle erupted over an enraged Mysterious Turtle, while Liu Bai remained inside.

• Ye Lin collected the Holy Spring and followed a hidden passage to a chamber beneath it.
• Ye Lin took the Sea-Calming Divine Pearl, one of the twenty-four pearls said to grant a wish, and hoped to use them to become a Great Luo.
• Ye Lin heard the Holy Mountain’s visitors panic and argue over who had released the Mysterious Turtle as the battle began.
• Ye Lin concealed his aura, escaped the Holy Mountain, and watched from a distance as the surrounding peaks collapsed.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar celebrated their gains and suggested they wait for the battle to end before leaving Sky Cloud Star.

Ye Lin refined the Holy Spring in a cave, spending ten years in cultivation while Liu Bai waited outside and struggled to understand why Ye Lin left no imprint on the river of time. Liu Bai expected news within three days, even as danger closed around Sky Cloud Star.

• Ye Lin entered a cave, swallowed three jars of Holy Spring, and used the Phoenix Bathing Heaven Technique to refine it.
• Ten years passed while Ye Lin cultivated, leaving Liu Bai unable to find his imprint on the river of time or calculate his fate.
• Yuexi urged Liu Bai to leave, but Liu Bai insisted that fate bound him to Ye Lin and that Ye Lin would not leave before their connection was exhausted.
• Liu Bai said he expected news in three days and warned that outsiders were planning to destroy Sky Cloud Star, potentially trapping its inhabitants.
• Liu Bai relaxed with his wine while Yuexi reminded him that he still owed her Star Brew.

After ten years of secluded cultivation, Ye Lin had advanced the Nine Lives Tower to Lesser Success and gained soul strength comparable to a peak Earth Immortal, though his cultivation remained at the middle stage. The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar advised him to focus on insight and let his cultivation settle, noting that he had exhausted his supplies.

• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar praised Ye Lin’s improved soul strength and the power of the Nine Lives Tower.
• Ye Lin reflected that the Nine Lives Tower could protect his soul and kill peak Earth Immortal cultivators, even though his cultivation would not advance beyond the middle stage.
• Ye Lin checked his status and saw that his destiny still ended with his death in the Golden Immortal Battlefield Ruins.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar told Ye Lin not to rush his cultivation because his insights were lacking and his foundation needed to settle.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar pointed out that Ye Lin had spent all his immortal stones and used up his other treasures during ten years of cultivation.

Ye Lin reflected on his lack of guidance after the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar advised him to find a master. After ten years of cultivation, he accidentally unleashed an aura that devastated the surrounding region and wondered whether Liu Bai had left.

• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar told Ye Lin that he needed a capable master to guide his cultivation and correct his mistakes.
• Ye Lin considered how he had explored cultivation on his own and agreed to think about finding a master.
• Ye Lin rose and accidentally released an aura that destroyed the mountain ranges within a million li and killed countless beings.
• Ye Lin recalled that ten years had passed and wondered whether Liu Bai had already left.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar reminded Ye Lin to hunt a hundred peak Earth Immortal creatures for it to absorb.

Ye Lin completed the initial cultivation of the Nine Lives Tower and reunited with Liu Bai, who had agreed to join the Firmament Sacred Land. Yuexi invited both of them to enter as Inner Sect disciples, offering resources and the possibility of a True Immortal’s guidance.

• Ye Lin spent most of the Holy Spring and more than ten thousand low-grade immortal stones to cultivate the Nine Lives Tower’s phantom to minor accomplishment.
• Liu Bai sensed Ye Lin’s arrival and demonstrated a sword strike infused with an imitation of Ye Lin’s Rule of Destruction.
• Ye Lin greeted Liu Bai after removing his mask and changing his aura, and Liu Bai said he had agreed to join the Firmament Sacred Land as an Inner Sect disciple.
• Yuexi introduced herself as the Firmament Sacred Land’s Saintess and invited Ye Lin and Liu Bai to join, describing the disciples’ monthly resources and chance to receive a True Immortal’s guidance.

Ye Lin agreed to follow Liu Bai to the Firmament Sacred Land, where he hoped to find a master and cultivation resources. After learning that Sky Cloud Star was under blockade because of the Black Turtle Clan, Ye Lin said he had a way to resolve the problem.

• Ye Lin laughed and agreed to go wherever Liu Bai went, hoping to gain opportunities and find a master in the Firmament Sacred Land.
• Yuexi said the Sacred Land had sent experts to negotiate with the Black Turtle Clan so they could leave Sky Cloud Star.
• Yuexi explained that the Black Turtle Clan had blockaded Sky Cloud Star after its forces abused a hatchling and a True Immortal took it away.
• Ye Lin recognized the incident and told Yuexi and Liu Bai to follow him because he had a way to deal with it.