Recaps

Yuexi explained the danger of the Blazing Fire Beasts’ heartfire, and Ye Lin learned that a double-horned beast carried a pearl that could reveal disguises. When they found three beasts, Yuexi planned to fight two while Ye Lin held off the third.

• Yuexi warned Ye Lin that the Blazing Fire Beasts’ heartfire fed on emotions and could threaten even Heavenly Immortals.
• Ye Lin read Yuexi’s panel and learned about the True-False Pearl inside a double-horned Blazing Fire Beast, then resolved to claim it.
• Yuexi and Ye Lin traveled to the beasts’ territory and found three enormous Blazing Fire Beasts, including one with two horns.
• Yuexi told Ye Lin to hold off one beast while she fought the other two.

Ye Lin drew the double-horned Blazing Fire Beast away from Yuexi while she trapped the other two in her Divine Sword Domain. He found a way to evade its charge, but its heartfire penetrated his chest, and the beast prepared another attack.

• Ye Lin offered to hold off the double-horned Blazing Fire Beast while Yuexi dealt with the other two.
• Yuexi opened her Divine Sword Domain and trapped two Blazing Fire Beasts, leaving Ye Lin to face the double-horned one.
• Ye Lin shattered the space around him to escape the beast's charge, which destroyed distant mountain ranges.
• The Blazing Fire Beast shot heartfire into Ye Lin's chest, burning his internal organs and heart.
• The Blazing Fire Beast stomped toward the void as Ye Lin faced its next move.

Ye Lin defeated the Blazing Beast and took the True-False Pearl. An old man called him the savior, gave him a bronze mirror that could reveal the world's true face, and was interrupted before he could finish warning Ye Lin not to trust anyone.

• Ye Lin resisted the Blazing Beast's heartfire and divine-soul attacks, then used his clones and Sword Qi to exploit its eyes and kill it.
• Ye Lin cut open the Blazing Beast and retrieved the violet True-False Pearl.
• A ragged old man approached Ye Lin, called him the savior, and handed him a scratched bronze mirror that could reveal the truth of the world.
• The old man began warning Ye Lin not to trust anyone, but a woman shouted about traitors and sent Sword Qi toward him.

Ye Lin hid the bronze mirror after Yuexi killed an old man who had tried to speak with him, and learned that the man belonged to a dangerous race from the Strange Forbidden Zone. After completing their mission, Ye Lin asked to remain on Fire Cloud Star to refine his domain, leaving Yuexi to decide whether to return without him.

• Yuexi killed the old man before he could finish speaking, and Ye Lin concealed the bronze mirror in his Spatial Ring.
• Yuexi told Ye Lin that the old man's kind were traitors from the Strange Forbidden Zone who preyed on cultivators and were skilled at bewitching hearts.
• Ye Lin chose not to question Yuexi further and accepted her praise for killing the peak Earth Immortal Fiery Beast.
• Yuexi gave Ye Lin a Heaven-Mending Pill, then prepared to return after their mission was complete.
• Ye Lin asked to stay on Fire Cloud Star for a few days to use its Great Dao of Fire to refine his domain, and Yuexi hesitated.

After Yuexi left, Ye Lin discovered that the bronze mirror let him see a horrifying truth beneath the pleasant world around him. Seeking answers from Liu Bai, he hurried to the Fire Cloud Kingdom’s capital.

• Ye Lin opened Yuexi’s gift and was about to refine the pill when the damaged bronze mirror flew into his sea of consciousness.
• Ye Lin used the mirror’s power and saw a desolate world of bones and maggots, while the fragrant pill appeared to be a ball of maggots.
• Ye Lin stopped using the mirror, put the pill away, and decided to find Liu Bai, believing the reincarnated Primordial Unity Golden Immortal might know what was happening.
• Ye Lin borrowed the mirror’s power several times on his journey and saw that the living creatures around him were covered in rotten flesh and maggots.
• Ye Lin reached the bustling capital of the Fire Cloud Kingdom after asking locals for directions.

Ye Lin negotiated with the Fire Cloud Clan Chief for access to the clan treasury, hoping to find a cultivation technique. After offering a Heaven-Mending Pill and a top-grade Immortal Artifact, he was allowed to choose one item from the treasury, excluding its three supreme treasures.

• Ye Lin used the bronze mirror to see that the capital’s apparent residents were rotting flesh crawling through the darkness.
• Ye Lin reached the imperial palace gate and asked to meet the Fire Cloud Clan Chief, presenting his Firmament Sacred Land Inner Sect Identity Token.
• The Fire Cloud Clan Chief met Ye Lin and reacted angrily when he asked to enter the treasury.
• Ye Lin offered a Heaven-Mending Pill, then added a top-grade flaming spear when the Chief said the pill was not enough.
• The Fire Cloud Clan Chief accepted the offer and let Ye Lin choose one treasury item, except for the three supreme treasures.

Ye Lin entered the Fire Cloud Clan’s treasure vault and found an ancient cultivation technique that could help him perfect his domain. He left within minutes, while the Fire Cloud Clan Chief inspected the vault and reacted with uncertainty to what Ye Lin had taken.

• The Fire Cloud Clan Chief gave Ye Lin half an hour in the vault and warned him to leave when time was up.
• Ye Lin searched the vault and found an ancient book that taught him to simulate a world’s workings within his body.
• Ye Lin realized the technique could help him perfect his domain and left the vault after less than five minutes.
• The Fire Cloud Clan Chief sent Ye Lin back to the gate and then examined the vault with his divine sense.
• The Fire Cloud Clan Chief’s expression flickered uncertainly after he discovered what Ye Lin had taken.

Ye Lin traveled to the Firmament Sacred Land, where Liu Bai urged him to enter the Inner Sect Grand Competition and then left for a mission on Fire Cloud Star. After Liu Bai misremembered how they first met, Ye Lin realized the person was an impostor and used the bronze mirror to examine him.

• Ye Lin boarded a Flying Boat to the Firmament Sacred Land and saw that its passengers appeared as corpses through the bronze mirror.
• Liu Bai met Ye Lin and told him to enter the Inner Sect Grand Competition, which would take place in a year and offer valuable rewards.
• Liu Bai said he was leaving for Fire Cloud Star to deal with a traitor and the creatures threatening it.
• Ye Lin asked Liu Bai about their first meeting, but Liu Bai gave the wrong answer.
• Ye Lin concluded that the person was not Liu Bai and looked at him with the bronze mirror.

Ye Lin left the Firmament Sacred Land for Fire Cloud Star, hoping the rioters there could explain the horrors shown by the bronze mirror and his missing memories. On the way, a mysterious woman stopped him and urged him to trust his own judgment and instincts.

• After seeing the monstrous world in the bronze mirror, Ye Lin decided to seek answers from the rioters on Fire Cloud Star.
• Ye Lin stopped using the bronze mirror's power and sped through the Star River, splitting obstructing stars and dealing with starry-sky bandits.
• A beautiful barefoot woman appeared in Ye Lin's path, and he discovered that his panel would not respond in her presence.
• Ye Lin apologized to the woman as a junior and changed direction to continue toward Fire Cloud Star.
• The woman told Ye Lin that what the eyes saw and ears heard might not be true, and advised him to trust his judgment and instincts.

Ye Lin wondered whether the disturbing visions around him were an illusion, then chose to focus on perfecting his domain. An injured Heavenly Immortal hailed him as the Redeemer and declared him the Star River Cosmos’s only hope.

• Ye Lin found the woman gone and questioned whether the monsters and the world around him were real.
• Ye Lin considered that he might be trapped in an illusion, but wondered how he could still use the panel.
• Ye Lin decided not to dwell on the mystery and headed toward the Firmament Sacred Land to comprehend his domain.
• A wounded old man with a powerful aura rushed up to Ye Lin and called him the Redeemer.
• The old man said they had waited millions of years for Ye Lin and that he was the Star River Cosmos’s only hope.

An old man told Ye Lin that he was the Star River Cosmos’s prophesied hope and gave him a bronze mirror meant to reveal its true purpose in his hands. Before the old man could finish warning him, a Daoist-robed man killed him, and Ye Lin denied hearing anything.

• The old man explained that the bizarre ominous beings had corrupted the Star River Cosmos and that its surviving supreme experts had made a vow to summon a sliver of hope.
• The old man told Ye Lin that he was that hope, gave him a bronze mirror, and warned him not to let the bizarre ominous beings discover him.
• A massive palm print crushed the old man before he could finish speaking.
• A Daoist-robed old man appeared and accused the dead man of being a rat who sought to overturn the Star River Cosmos.
• Ye Lin calmly told the Daoist-robed old man that the dead man had said nothing before being killed.

Ye Lin received a mirror from a Daoist-robed old man, then returned to the Firmament Sacred Land and spent a century in seclusion. He emerged having perfected his domain and grasped how its rules could converge toward the Great Dao.

• A Daoist-robed old man gave Ye Lin a mirror that could distinguish the so-called rats from cultivators, and told him to kill the rats if he encountered them.
• Ye Lin used the mirror to see that the drifting chunks of flesh were rotten carrion crawling with maggots, leaving him unsure whom to trust.
• Ye Lin returned to the Firmament Sacred Land and entered seclusion, avoiding worldly affairs for a hundred years.
• Ye Lin emerged with a powerful domain that could rewrite the world's rules, declaring that within his domain, his rules were the true rules.
• Ye Lin concluded that the Rules of Destruction and Time could unite the myriad Daos into laws, pointing toward the Great Dao and transcendence.

Ye Lin examined how domains advanced into laws and Dao, realizing that doing so required comprehending and inscribing the traces of myriad Daos. He tested his domain’s power by creating a phantom sun, while the chapter ended with a site notice about new bookshelf grouping and ad-free VIP features.

• Ye Lin reflected that perfecting a domain required comprehending myriad Daos and inscribing their traces onto his primary Dao.
• Ye Lin recognized that observing a Great Luo expert’s Dao could provide a shortcut, though such an opportunity was practically unheard of.
• Ye Lin used a thought to raise a phantom sun that illuminated the pitch-black space of his domain.
• The site announced bookshelf grouping and an ad-free VIP membership feature.

After a hundred years of seclusion, Ye Lin emerged having comprehended a domain built on the Laws of Destruction and Time. Liu Bai reminded him of their appointment to explore the Taiyi Mysterious Immortal ruin, where Ye Lin hoped to find the incomplete volume of One Breath Becomes Three Purities, and they prepared to set out.

• Ye Lin reflected on how domains differed from small worlds and considered the power of his two primary Dao laws.
• Ye Lin withdrew his domain and recognized that his mastery had placed him among the heavenly geniuses.
• Liu Bai greeted Ye Lin after his hundred years of seclusion and asked whether he remembered their unfinished business.
• Ye Lin recalled his promise to Apocalypse and anticipated finding the incomplete volume of One Breath Becomes Three Purities in the Taiyi Mysterious Immortal ruin.
• Liu Bai agreed that it was time to leave, and they prepared to set out.

Ye Lin and Liu Bai joined Apocalypse aboard his father’s concealed warship to travel to a Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal’s ruin. As the ship sped through the star systems, Ye Lin continued comprehending the Law of Fire, and Apocalypse said they would reach their destination in ten hours.

• Apocalypse waited outside the Firmament Sacred Land and greeted Ye Lin and Liu Bai after they arrived late.
• Apocalypse took Ye Lin and Liu Bai aboard his father’s warship, which vanished using its concealment device.
• Apocalypse boasted about the warship’s speed as it carried them toward the distant ruin.
• Ye Lin comprehended the Law of Fire, and Apocalypse and Liu Bai praised his diligence and potential.
• Apocalypse said they would reach the ruin in ten hours and that he would take Ye Lin and Liu Bai back after they explored it.

Apocalypse led Ye Lin and Liu Bai through a shattered star system to the ruins of a Taiyi Mysterious Immortal. They entered through a vortex and arrived in a desolate world under a blood moon, where Apocalypse warned them about its eerie aura.

• Apocalypse revealed the ruins at the center of a destroyed star system and used the Flying Boat's shield to guide them through deadly divine lights.
• Ye Lin, Liu Bai, and Apocalypse survived the dangerous crossing and reached the ruins.
• Apocalypse activated the Sword Talisman, opening a black vortex, and entered it first.
• Ye Lin and Liu Bai followed Apocalypse through the vortex and found themselves in a desolate world filled with grotesque monsters and soul-rending screams.
• Apocalypse warned Ye Lin and Liu Bai to guard their souls against the eerie aura.

Apocalypse led Ye Lin and Liu Bai through the realm toward the great curtain, warning them about monsters born from the evil thoughts of dead Taiyi Mysterious Immortals. Ye Lin grew suspicious of Liu Bai, while Apocalypse demonstrated that he could keep the monsters and their aura a hundred meters away.

• Apocalypse summoned the Jade Flute and led Ye Lin and Liu Bai forward, warning them about the strange creatures.
• Ye Lin used the bronze mirror and saw that the monsters were actually helpless cultivators, then cut off the connection when Liu Bai questioned him.
• Liu Bai offered Ye Lin wine that he claimed could ward off divine soul attacks, but Ye Lin refused and became more wary of him.
• A horde of monsters surrounded Apocalypse, who declared that they could not come within a hundred meters of him and forced them back.

Ye Lin learned that Apocalypse’s Words Become Law created a small domain before the group reached Mo Yuan’s great tomb. Finding the tomb already breached, Apocalypse rushed inside, and Ye Lin left the others to investigate a figure he glimpsed in a dark corridor.

• Liu Bai explained that Words Become Law manipulated the rules within a small domain around its user.
• Apocalypse identified the tomb as the resting place of a Taiyi Mysterious Immortal and described its four guardian tombs and generals.
• Apocalypse discovered that someone had already entered the breached tomb and charged inside with Ye Lin and Liu Bai following.
• Ye Lin noticed signs of another person and glimpsed a figure in a side corridor.
• Ye Lin told Liu Bai to continue ahead and entered the corridor alone.

Ye Lin encountered a Liu Bai who claimed that half an hour had passed and urged him toward a battle, but the mirrors showed Liu Bai as rotten flesh. As Ye Lin followed, he spotted a white figure and chased after it instead.

• Liu Bai appeared and told Ye Lin that they had entered the ruins with Apocalypse, who had gone ahead to fight someone.
• Liu Bai claimed that a strange and ominous creature had impersonated him and led Ye Lin away, while Ye Lin found the claim contradicted his own memories.
• Ye Lin used the bronze mirror and the Daoist's mirror to inspect Liu Bai, and the second mirror showed Liu Bai as rotten flesh.
• Ye Lin followed Liu Bai toward the central area, then spotted a white figure and chased it until Liu Bai's figure emerged beside him.

Ye Lin grew tired of the illusion’s shifting Liu Bais and began killing every one he saw, advancing his comprehension of the Killing Dao. He realized the scene was an illusion with many flaws, despite its ability to deceive the panel, and prepared to end it.

• Liu Bai scolded Ye Lin for trusting the Delusion Divine Mirror, and Ye Lin attacked and killed him.
• Ye Lin continued slashing apart every Liu Bai he encountered until killing intent gathered around him and he neared the threshold of the Laws of the Killing Dao.
• Ye Lin expanded his blood-red domain, crushing countless Liu Bais while they pleaded with him to stop.
• Ye Lin declared that the Killing Dao would break the illusion and recognized that he had trusted the panel too blindly.
• Ye Lin’s comprehension expanded without limit as he stood blood-red, poised to end the illusion.

Ye Lin passed the second floor of the Heaven-Reaching Tower and chose to claim its reward rather than skip ahead to the eighth floor. He received a Stellar Warboat and prepared to continue, confident that his experience with domain power would help him master it in the real world.

• The artifact spirit congratulated Ye Lin on passing the second floor in three hours and offered him a Stellar Warboat or a jump to the eighth floor without intervening rewards.
• Ye Lin chose the Stellar Warboat, deciding to take the available reward before attempting harder trials.
• The artifact spirit gave Ye Lin the warboat and a half-hour to rest before the third-floor trial began.
• Ye Lin checked the system shop and discovered the enormous prices of finest immortal-grade warboats, including one equipped with a Domain Cannon.
• Ye Lin stored the Stellar Warboat in his Spatial Ring and reflected that he had not truly gained domain power, though he expected to master it within ten years.

Ye Lin advanced through the Heaven-Reaching Tower’s talent and deduction trials, then withdrew when the fifth-floor challenge proved beyond his abilities. Outside the tower, he accepted that he would need more time to grow before he could hope to advance further.

• Ye Lin passed the third-floor talent trial, which rated his overall talent as superior.
• Ye Lin identified the faction responsible for destroying the ruined faction and cleared the fourth-floor trial.
• Ye Lin withdrew from the fifth-floor trial after learning he had to fight three peak Earth Immortal experts who had mastered domain power.
• Ye Lin left the Heaven-Reaching Tower without regret and thought that he might reach the fifteenth floor or higher after a hundred years of cultivation.

Ye Lin waited outside the Heaven-Reaching Tower as cultivators failed its trials, then Liu Bai emerged after a tower-wide phenomenon with a jade fan and a likely Golden Immortal inheritance. The Firmament Sacred Land disciples congratulated Liu Bai, seeing him as a future Golden Immortal.

• Ye Lin sat outside the Heaven-Reaching Tower and contained the violent power around him as failed challengers were expelled.
• After a day, the Heaven-Reaching Tower erupted with golden light, shook, and expelled everyone except Liu Bai.
• Liu Bai emerged with a jade-white folding fan after destroying a Golden Immortal remnant thought and gaining its insights.
• The Firmament Sacred Land disciples congratulated Liu Bai, believing he had obtained the Golden Immortal inheritance.

After Liu Bai was recognized as the heir to a Golden Immortal inheritance, the surrounding factions sought to befriend him, while Ye Lin struggled with the killing impulse the trial had left behind. Gu Tianxing led the three holy lands away to protect Liu Bai, and the other factions departed to spread the news.

• Liu Bai praised Ye Lin for grasping the power of a domain, while Ye Lin restrained himself from drawing his sword against him.
• Beings from many races and factions discussed Liu Bai’s future and ordered investigations so they could make his acquaintance.
• Gu Tianxing decided the group should withdraw because Liu Bai had attracted attention and might face danger.
• The three holy lands’ warships departed together, and the remaining factions left to report that Liu Bai had obtained a Golden Immortal opportunity.

Demon Subduer welcomed the three Sacred Lands’ warships back from the Kunlun Secret Realm and escorted their disciples home. He then dismissed the other Firmament Sacred Land disciples and kept Liu Bai, Yuexi, Heavenly Star, and Ye Lin behind.

• Demon Subduer waited outside the Kunlun Secret Realm and saw three Sacred Lands’ warships emerge together.
• The disciples aboard the vessels saluted Demon Subduer, while Liu Bai remained standing because bowing would have brought disaster upon the Holy Lord.
• Demon Subduer drew the three warships into his body and returned with them to the Firmament Sacred Land.
• Demon Subduer sent the disciples of the other two Sacred Lands on their way home.
• Demon Subduer dismissed the other Firmament Sacred Land disciples and ordered Liu Bai, Yuexi, Heavenly Star, and Ye Lin to remain.