Recaps

Ye Lin told Elder Wang that he had come from beyond the heavens to help the Human Race return to the pinnacle of the world. Elder Wang recalled how he had become Martial King, suffered grievous injuries fighting three Demon Beast Martial Kings, and was now trapped in the Holy City suppressing the Human Race’s Fortune’s Favor.

• Elder Wang asked Ye Lin where he came from and why he had come, unable to see through him.
• Ye Lin said he came from beyond the heavens and intended to help the Human Race rise again.
• Elder Wang recalled receiving the Human Race’s Fortune’s Favor from the old Martial King and stepping into the Martial King Realm.
• Elder Wang remembered fighting three Demon Beast Martial Kings, suffering severe injuries, and retreating with the Human Race’s experts to the Holy City.
• Elder Wang remained in the Holy City to suppress the Human Race’s Fortune’s Favor while beastmen hunted Human Race prodigies and the Demon Race feared his ability to take a Demon Emperor down with him.

Ye Lin challenged Elder Wang’s despair over the Human Race and its future, provoking the Martial King to defend his lifelong sacrifices. The chapter ended with Elder Wang demanding to know what right Ye Lin had to criticize him.

• Elder Wang reflected on how the Demon Race had weakened the Human Race and how he had stayed behind to suppress its fortune while searching for a Martial King successor.
• Ye Lin dismissed Elder Wang’s bleak outlook and called him a frog at the bottom of a well.
• Elder Wang urged Ye Lin to leave, saying he could live happily elsewhere.
• Ye Lin accused Elder Wang of lacking courage and threatened to find someone else.
• Elder Wang angrily recounted reaching the Martial King realm at fifty and protecting the Human Race for over a thousand years, then demanded grounds for Ye Lin’s criticism.

Ye Lin confronted Elder Wang over his despair and argued that the Human Race’s decline could only be reversed through internal reform. Elder Wang had to decide whether to use his remaining authority—and the new life Ye Lin offered—to lead the Human Race toward renewal.

• Ye Lin told Elder Wang that his fear and resignation were worsening the Human Race’s decline.
• Elder Wang said the burden of leading the Human Race rested entirely on his shoulders and that he saw no way forward.
• Ye Lin offered to heal Elder Wang’s hidden injuries, restore his youth, and help him advance further, then asked whether he could renew the Human Race.
• Ye Lin explained that unequal control of resources and internal conflict threatened the Human Race, and that Elder Wang’s remaining authority made him the best candidate to reform it.

Ye Lin urged Elder Wang to revive the Human Race, promising to help it rise if the Martial King rebuilt its strength and leadership. He healed Elder Wang’s hidden injuries and granted him power to strengthen his meridians, leaving the old leader focused on refining the gift.

• Ye Lin asked Elder Wang whether he still had the courage and determination to lead the Human Race.
• Elder Wang vowed that he could make the Human Race rise if his injuries were healed and he regained his peak strength.
• Ye Lin gave Elder Wang ten years to build a new Human Race, promising future support and saying he would handle the Demon Beasts.
• Ye Lin used Immortal Qi to heal Elder Wang’s hidden injuries and strengthen his meridians.
• Elder Wang began refining Ye Lin’s gift, convinced that Ye Lin could help the Human Race.

Ye Lin healed Elder Wang and helped him break through to peak Martial King, then ordered him to unite the Human Race within ten years. After examining Wang Hou’s fate, Ye Lin settled in to wait while Wang Hou set out to resume his long-abandoned plan.

• Elder Wang recovered from his injuries and advanced from early Martial King to peak Martial King in three days.
• Elder Wang thanked Ye Lin, who gave him ten years to unite the Human Race and said he would watch from there.
• Elder Wang left with renewed fighting spirit to pursue the plan he had failed to fulfill for a thousand years.
• Ye Lin examined Wang Hou’s panel and learned that Wang Hou was destined to unite the Myriad Demon Great World before dying to starry-sky pirates.
• Ye Lin decided to wait for Wang Hou to unite the Human Race, believing that controlling its leader would let him control the entire race.

While Ye Lin remained in seclusion, Wang Hou purged the Holy City, united the Human Race, and expanded its territory by defeating the half-beasts. Five years later, three Holy Cities stood together, the Human Race had grown stronger, and Wang Hou’s power had reached a terrifying level.

• Wang Hou purged the Holy City, replaced its ruling class with his followers, and began sharing martial cultivation techniques throughout the Human Race.
• Wang Hou expanded his territory and slaughtered three half-beast cities before killing their half-step Martial King with a single slap.
• Wang Hou established a second city, drawing civilians and experts to the Holy City as the Human Race’s fortune grew.
• Wang Hou founded a third Holy City, and by the fifth year the three cities sheltered more than ten million people, twenty Heavenly Human Realm experts, and eight half-step Martial Kings.
• Wang Hou stood above the three Holy Cities, bearing the Human Race’s fortune and wielding terrifying combat power.

In the sixth year, Wang Hou led the Human Race into war against the Demon Race after ordering the construction of another Holy City and the extermination of half-beasts and their cultivation techniques. The chapter ended with Wang Hou facing three Demon Emperors in a battle that could decide the Human Race’s survival.

• Zhao Feng reported that the Human Race had grown to fifteen million eight hundred thousand and that the three Holy Cities could no longer hold the arriving pilgrims.
• Wang Hou ordered a new city built and commanded that half-beasts and anyone cultivating half-beast techniques be executed.
• Yun Nan warned Wang Hou that three Demon Emperors were advancing with a vast army, and Wang Hou ordered all martial artists above the Innate Realm to fight.
• One hundred thousand Human Race martial artists split into three forces to resist the Demon Race’s thirty-million-strong army while three half-step Martial Kings guarded the Holy Cities.
• Wang Hou summoned his two Martial Souls and fought the three Demon Emperors after they had faced off for three days and nights.

Wang Hou led the Human Race to victory against three Demon Emperors, ushering in ten years of rapid growth and expansion. At the Holy Palace, he warned his leaders that powerful enemies remained and ordered preparations for an even fiercer second Demon Race attack.

• Wang Hou drew upon the Human Race’s gathered fortune to suppress three Demon Emperors, and after three days of fighting forced them and the Demon Race army to retreat.
• Wang Hou ordered the Human Race to advance its territory by a hundred li, and the resulting surge in fortune helped three experts become Martial Kings.
• Over ten years, the Human Race grew to more than thirty million people, established eight mutually supporting cities, and expanded its legions.
• Wang Hou told the leaders at the Holy Palace that the Demon Race had more than twenty Demon Emperors and that the sea might also harbor Martial Emperor-level Demon Beasts.
• Wang Hou ordered preparations for a second Demon Race attack, warning that it would be fiercer than the first.

Wang Hou returned to Ye Lin after ten years, proved the Human Race had risen, and was granted Martial Emperor cultivation. Ye Lin revealed he intended to control the Myriad Demon Great World, and two years later the Human Race began an all-out war.

• Wang Hou returned to Ye Lin's residence after ten years and found him unchanged.
• Ye Lin praised Wang Hou and used a single point to break his cultivation bottleneck, raising him to the Martial Emperor realm.
• Wang Hou asked why Ye Lin had helped him, and Ye Lin said he wanted to control the Myriad Demon Great World.
• Ye Lin told Wang Hou to act according to his heart and left the reason unexplained, so Wang Hou departed without challenging him.
• Two years later, the Human Race launched an all-out war to expand its territory, while Wang Hou revealed his Martial Emperor cultivation and drove nearby Demon Beasts away.

Wang Hou led the Human Race through decades of war against the Demon Race, but the arrival of five peak Martial Emperor Sea Beasts forced their enemies to unite. The Sea Beasts seized half the mainland in a year, leaving the Human Race and Demon Race facing the threat of losing the entire world.

• The Human Race leader reached the Martial Emperor Realm, and Wang Hou fought the First Demon Emperor to a draw as the Demon Race gathered to destroy the Human Race.
• Wang Hou fought two Demon Race emperors, withdrew when severely wounded, then returned four years later and defeated them; the war lasted thirty years and ended with the Human Race reclaiming half the mainland.
• After returning to the Holy Mountain, Wang Hou suddenly resumed the war against the Demon Race, and the two sides fought while Sea Beasts began landing on the mainland.
• Five peak Martial Emperor Sea Beast emperors arrived at the Human and Demon Ancestral Lands, forcing Wang Hou and the two Demon Race emperors to form an alliance.
• The allied Human and Demon forces suffered repeated defeats as the Sea Beasts landed by the tens of millions each day and seized half the mainland in a year.

Wang Hou unified the Human Territory, destroyed the Demon Race, and sought Ye Lin’s recognition. Ye Lin revealed that Wang Hou’s rise had been a trial for a force beyond the heavens and demanded the Human Territory submit and pay tribute.

• Wang Hou led the Human Territory to the sea but, unable to fight effectively underwater, sealed the coastlines against sea beasts.
• Over thirty years, the Human Territory grew stronger under Wang Hou and Holy City, though Wang Hou remained its only Martial Emperor.
• Wang Hou killed every Demon Emperor and every Demon Race member at the Martial King realm or above, leaving only the Human Territory and sea beast race as powers in the Myriad Demon Great World.
• Wang Hou told Ye Lin that he had unified the Human Territory and asked whether his achievements had earned recognition.
• Ye Lin said he belonged to a force beyond the heavens, declared Wang Hou’s rise a completed trial, and demanded submission, annual tribute of ten percent of the Human Territory’s resources, and cooperation with a future envoy.

Ye Lin demanded ten percent of the Human Race’s resources from Wang Hou and threatened him with death if he refused. He then confronted three powerful Nine-Headed Dragons in the sea region, who asked why he had come after them.

• Wang Hou refused Ye Lin’s demand for ten percent of the Human Race’s resources and offered five percent instead.
• Ye Lin reminded Wang Hou that he had helped him become Human Emperor, threatened to remove him, and gave him three days to decide.
• Ye Lin traveled to the sea region and sensed three beings with strength comparable to late Earth Immortals beneath the water.
• Three Nine-Headed Dragons emerged from the sea after Ye Lin called them out.
• Ye Lin recognized that the Nine-Headed Dragons had come from the Star River and asked how they had entered the Myriad Demon Great World.
• One Nine-Headed Dragon asked Ye Lin why he was trying to drive them to extinction.

Ye Lin attacked the three nine-headed dragons, refusing to trust their promise to leave the land alone. He trapped them in his domain and used time power to freeze them as his sword struck, threatening to strip away a million years of their cultivation.

• One of the nine-headed dragons asked Ye Lin to leave and promised the three brothers would depart after mastering their divine arts.
• Ye Lin rejected their promise and drew the three dragons into his domain.
• Ye Lin formed a sword formation around the dragons, but they broke it and attacked the domain’s weakest point.
• Ye Lin used time power to freeze the three dragons and their thoughts.
• Ye Lin sent his Great River Sword at the frozen dragons, intending to strip away a million years of their cultivation if it wounded them.

Ye Lin trapped the three nine-headed dragons after they escaped a flaw in his domain, then fought them across the Endless Sea. Wang Hou watched from the Holy City and realized how far his strength fell short of Ye Lin’s.

• The three nine-headed dragons found a weak point in Ye Lin’s domain, tore open a breach, and escaped before it repaired itself.
• Ye Lin acknowledged his domain’s flaw, dispersed it, and sealed the sea region with the Four-Directional Sword Array.
• One of the nine-headed dragons understood that Ye Lin was treating them as a trial and attacked him, leaving no chance for reconciliation.
• Ye Lin and the dragons clashed across the Endless Sea, their battle shaking the Myriad Demon Great World.
• Wang Hou watched from above the Holy City, recognized his weakness compared with Ye Lin, and ordered those nearby to continue their duties.

Ye Lin fought three Nine-Headed Dragons, who joined forces to summon a True Dragon projection and suppress his strength with its dragon's might. After being struck into the sea, Ye Lin rose to face them again as their battle devastated the sea region.

• The three Nine-Headed Dragons formed a Dragon Formation and summoned a True Dragon projection.
• The projection's dragon's might suppressed Ye Lin's combat strength by thirty percent.
• Ye Lin met the projection's tail with his Saint-Falling Fist, but the blow sent him crashing to the seabed.
• Ye Lin rose from the sea and faced the dragons again as their battle shattered space and killed many sea beasts.

Ye Lin used Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation to withstand the three Nine-Headed Dragon brothers’ attacks and shatter their True Dragon phantom. He was left badly weakened, while the brothers lay bleeding and motionless on the sea.

• Ye Lin used Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation and blocked the Nine-Headed Dragons’ powerful tail strike.
• The three Nine-Headed Dragon brothers used Dragon Might and True Dragon Breath to fire a purplish-red beam at Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin drove his Saint-Falling Fist through the beam toward the True Dragon phantom despite cracks spreading across his fist.
• Ye Lin’s fist shattered the True Dragon phantom, and Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation exploded.
• Ye Lin swayed in the sky near collapse as the three Nine-Headed Dragon brothers lay motionless, bleeding into the sea.

Ye Lin defeated the three nine-headed dragons and collected the Human Race’s promised cultivation resources from Wang Hou. After declaring his assessment complete and leaving the remaining matters to Wang Hou, Ye Lin prepared to depart.

• Ye Lin approached the dying nine-headed dragon brothers and killed them with Sword One, Sword Piercing the Firmament.
• Ye Lin went to the Holy Mountain to demand an explanation from Wang Hou.
• Wang Hou gave Ye Lin a Spatial Ring containing Blood Crystals made from ten percent of the Human Race’s century’s worth of cultivation resources.
• Ye Lin told Wang Hou that he had dealt with three sea beasts who appeared to be Martial Emperors and left the rest of the world’s affairs to him.
• Ye Lin said his assessment was complete and that it was time for him to leave.

Ye Lin left the Myriad Demon Great World and traveled toward the Firmament Sacred Land, but paused to explore the notorious Fourth Celestial Domain. As he entered its starry sky, he sensed the smell of blood.

• Ye Lin used a Realm-Breaking Talisman to leave the Myriad Demon Great World, unaware that a golden halo had appeared behind him.
• Ye Lin traveled for a year on the Stellar Warboat toward the Firmament Sacred Land and stopped near the Fourth Celestial Domain.
• Ye Lin considered the dangers and opportunities of the Fourth Celestial Domain, then decided to enter and explore it.
• Ye Lin guided the Stellar Warboat toward the domain and sensed the smell of blood as he entered.

Ye Lin entered the Fourth Celestial Domain, where factions were forbidden and powerful cultivators attacked anyone who stood out. He left the chapter facing down a peak Earth Immortal without giving ground.

• Ye Lin watched a sword strike destroy countless warships and learned that factions in the Fourth Celestial Domain were swiftly eradicated.
• A cloaked cultivator noticed Ye Lin’s conspicuous top-grade Immortal-tier warship and eyed it greedily.
• The cloaked cultivator tested Ye Lin by releasing the aura of a peak Earth Immortal.
• Ye Lin revealed his mid-stage Earth Immortal cultivation and challenged the cloaked cultivator’s chances of defeating him.
• Their auras collided across the void, shattering stars, while Ye Lin held his ground.

Ye Lin entered the Fourth Celestial Domain after learning that a mysterious True Immortal had deterred even the Three Great Sacred Lands from interfering there. After a year of travel, he found hundreds of peak Earth Immortals drawing power from a chained crimson star, and a green-robed man appeared beside him.

• The man in black retreated after clashing with Ye Lin, wary that Ye Lin might be connected to one of the Three Great Sacred Lands.
• The man in black recalled how a mysterious True Immortal had once stopped a Sacred Lord from destroying the Fourth Celestial Domain.
• Ye Lin put away the conspicuous Stellar Warboat and traveled alone toward the Fourth Celestial Domain.
• After a year of travel, Ye Lin found hundreds of peak Earth Immortals bound by golden chains to a crimson star above an azure planet.
• A green-robed man appeared beside Ye Lin and remarked that the sight had shocked him the first time he saw it.

Ye Lin met Ye Gucheng, a powerful sword cultivator whose fate and recent opportunity he learned about, and accompanied him to Myriad Phenomena Star. There, Ye Gucheng killed a peak Earth Immortal assassin with one finger, and Ye Lin followed him inside.

• Ye Lin greeted Ye Gucheng and read his panel, learning about his talent, past, fate, and opportunity in the Myriad Phenomena Mystic Realm.
• Ye Lin asked Ye Gucheng to travel together, and they arrived at Myriad Phenomena Star.
• A black-clad man confronted Ye Gucheng and threatened to kill him for a ten-million-immortal-stone bounty.
• Ye Gucheng challenged the man’s unseen backer and killed the black-clad peak Earth Immortal with a single finger.
• Ye Lin examined the dead man’s injuries and followed Ye Gucheng into Myriad Phenomena Star, remarking on the bounty.

Ye Gucheng took Ye Lin through Myriad Phenomena City while searching for his deceased father’s bloodstained broken sword. Three peak Earth Immortals confronted Ye Gucheng, and he advanced to meet them as the crowd watched.

• Ye Gucheng told Ye Lin he had come to Myriad Phenomena Star to find a bloodstained broken sword that had belonged to his father.
• Ye Gucheng warned Ye Lin that following him would bring trouble and said he had been an abandoned infant of Hidden Sword Mountain.
• Three men in blood-red robes, each a peak Earth Immortal, appeared and approached Ye Gucheng.
• Ye Gucheng raised two fingers like a sword and walked toward the three assassins as the pedestrians and vendors retreated to watch.

Ye Gucheng effortlessly killed three peak Earth Immortal attackers with a Sword Qi storm and continued on, leaving Ye Lin to assess his terrifying strength. A site notice announced a new bookshelf grouping feature.

• Three blood-robed peak Earth Immortals surrounded Ye Gucheng and launched attacks from three directions.
• Ye Gucheng unleashed a Sword Qi storm that shattered the attackers' domains and divine souls, killing all three.
• Ye Gucheng glanced at Ye Lin and calmly walked onward without drawing the wooden sword in his sleeve.
• Ye Lin examined the corpses and concluded that Ye Gucheng had killed all three with a single sword strike.
• The site announced that users could group bookshelves and submit suggestions.

Ye Lin and Ye Gucheng reached the Myriad Phenomena Mystic Realm, where Ye Lin learned that the treasure Ye Gucheng sought was held by a ruthless opponent. The two paid the entrance fee and prepared to enter.

• Ye Lin reflected on how far his swordsmanship fell short of Ye Gucheng's, and Ye Gucheng said Ye Lin was too weak to fight him until he reached peak Earth Immortal.
• Ye Gucheng told Ye Lin that the Myriad Phenomena Mystic Realm lay within Myriad Phenomena City, and Ye Lin said he had come to seek its opportunities.
• Ye Gucheng warned Ye Lin that he could easily die inside the Mystic Realm.
• Ye Lin and Ye Gucheng paid ten thousand low-grade immortal stones each to the two Heavenly Immortal emissaries at the entrance.
• The frail emissary recognized Ye Gucheng as the abandoned infant from Hidden Sword Mountain and warned him that the object he sought was held by a ruthless character.

Ye Lin entered the Myriad Phenomena Mystic Realm after the fat old man recognized him as Zhuge Yun’s true disciple and urged him to stay safe. He parted ways with Ye Gucheng and followed the panel’s prompts to the fifth pavilion, where he searched the remains of an old True Immortal faction’s Scripture Depository.

• The fat old man recognized Ye Lin as Zhuge Yun’s true disciple and told him to pass along greetings to his master.
• The fat old man warned that Bloodslaughter Tower should not harm Ye Lin, whom he called Zhuge old man’s final hope.
• Inside the mystic realm, Ye Gucheng told Ye Lin that he was more useful alive than dead, then left to seek the bloodstained aura.
• Ye Lin followed the panel’s prompts, hoping to reach Ye Gucheng’s opportunity first.
• Ye Lin arrived at the fifth pavilion and climbed to its eighth floor, finding scattered cultivation books and few signs that anything valuable remained.