Recaps

Ye Lin fled from a Demon Beast that blamed him for killing her child, but he insisted he had been framed and suspected Li Shanchang. After they fought, Ye Lin offered the Demon Beast one last chance to hear the truth.

• The Demon Beast attacked Ye Lin, who fled with her pursuing him while Bai Ziran and Yang Xiu watched.
• The Demon Beast accused Ye Lin of killing her child when she was wounded and said she had already killed three others who denied knowing her.
• The Demon Beast unleashed demon qi that killed everything within a thousand li, then attacked Ye Lin with a massive black palm.
• Ye Lin destroyed the black palm with a sword strike, but his attack shattered when it touched the Demon Beast.
• Ye Lin denied killing the Demon Beast's child, suspected Li Shanchang had tampered with him, and offered to explain himself.

Ye Lin fought a True Immortal Demon Beast, realized she was being controlled, and freed her from the influence. When she saw him, she became hostile again, so Ye Lin set out to investigate what had happened to her.

• The Demon Beast attacked Ye Lin with claws and black-purple chains, while Ye Lin defended himself with sword intent and lightning-wreathed swords.
• Ye Lin slowed the Demon Beast with an oppressive aura and recognized that her blood-red eyes showed she was under someone’s control.
• Ye Lin sent a streak of light into the Demon Beast’s brow, clearing the red from her eyes and transforming her into a horned woman.
• The woman saw Ye Lin and attacked him, but he scattered her palm strike with a slap.
• Ye Lin resolved to discover why she lost control when he approached and what she was.

Ye Lin defeated Zhang Yue'er and questioned why she had attacked him, learning that a mysterious group had murdered her child and manipulated her into killing her husband. Zhang Yue'er’s demonic aura erupted as she described the tragedy, leaving her consumed by grief and vengeance.

• Ye Lin caught Zhang Yue'er's wrist, twisted it, and kicked her into a distant mountain range.
• Ye Lin told Zhang Yue'er that distance weakened the influence affecting her, while she said it was growing stronger and apologized for wanting to kill.
• Ye Lin asked Zhang Yue'er why she had changed and targeted him.
• Zhang Yue'er recounted how black-cloaked strangers took and killed her newborn after attacking her husband.
• Zhang Yue'er said the strangers obscured her spiritual awareness and placed their aura on her husband, causing her to kill him before the aura vanished.

Zhang Yue'er recounted how she had killed her husband and explained that the aura left by the black-robed people made her lose control and kill anyone who carried it. She lost control again and attacked Ye Lin, who countered her with the Saint-Falling Fist.

• Zhang Yue'er said her husband had died by her hand after she sensed the filthy aura, and that she could not resist losing control whenever it appeared.
• Zhang Yue'er became engulfed in demonic aura and fixed her scarlet eyes on Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin considered how Li Shanchang had tampered with him without leaving any detectable trace.
• Zhang Yue'er recalled that five humans at the Heavenly Immortal realm had died before her during her bouts of losing control.
• Ye Lin destroyed Zhang Yue'er's black-violet lightning, but she appeared directly before him with killing intent.
• Ye Lin unleashed the Saint-Falling Fist, surrounding his right arm with a brilliant crimson light that dispersed the demonic aura.

Ye Lin killed Zhang Yue'er to end her suffering, then crushed a black sphere containing a mysterious wisp. He returned to Bai Ziran and Yang Xiu, who learned that the Demon Beast had likely been sent by one of Ye Lin's enemies, while Li Shanchang quietly assessed Ye Lin's strength.

• Ye Lin pierced Zhang Yue'er's brow with Sword Qi, destroying her Primordial Spirit and ending her suffering.
• Ye Lin examined a black sphere, crushed it, and watched a wisp of black silk dissipate.
• Ye Lin rejoined Bai Ziran, Yang Xiu, and Li Shanchang, claiming he had escaped the Demon Beast by luck.
• Bai Ziran told Ye Lin that her master had divined the Demon Beast's origins and suspected an enemy from another province had sent it after him.
• Ye Lin said there was no need to trouble Bai Ziran's master.

After returning to the Dao Heaven Sect, Ye Lin resumed cultivation, but three months later Li Unrivaled contacted him for help against Li Shanchang and a powerful group of black-robed people. Ye Lin agreed to assess a possible Star River prodigy as the threat approached Mountain-Shaking City.

• Ye Lin warned that Li Shanchang must have powerful backing, then dismissed Li Shanchang's threats as the sects left the secret realm.
• Li Shanchang privately plotted to kill two Star River prodigies, wipe out the Firmament Sacred Land, and take control of the Purple Cloud Star System.
• Ye Lin returned to the Dao Heaven Sect and entered closed-door cultivation for three months.
• Li Unrivaled contacted Ye Lin and asked for help against Li Shanchang and black-robed people who were refining living beings across Yang Province.
• Li Unrivaled said the group, including three peak True Immortals and five late-stage True Immortals, would reach Mountain-Shaking City in three days, and asked Ye Lin to assess someone suspected of being a Star River prodigy.

Ye Lin left seclusion to meet Li Shanchang, suspecting that the matter involved him, and set out for the Dao Heaven Sect’s mountain gate. On the way, he encountered Yang Xiu and said he planned to investigate the Demonic Cultivators in Yang Province.

• Ye Lin decided to go see what Li Shanchang was doing after hearing from Li Unrivaled.
• Ye Lin refused An Xin’s request to come along, promising to bring him a toy instead.
• Ye Lin headed toward the Dao Heaven Sect’s mountain gate after leaving An Xin behind.
• Ye Lin met Yang Xiu, who was carrying spirit plants, and said he was going to investigate the Demonic Cultivators in Yang Province.
• Yang Xiu warned Ye Lin that the Demonic Cultivators were powerful and might have come from another province.

Ye Lin went to Mountain-Shaking City to investigate Li Shanchang and found Li Unrivaled waiting there with intelligence about the Evil Cultivators. The chapter left Ye Lin facing a possible threat from a powerful black-robed man linked to Star River Cosmos.

• Ye Lin left Yang Xiu and traveled toward Mountain-Shaking City, passing fields of desiccated corpses and drained Demon Beasts.
• Ye Lin arrived in Mountain-Shaking City and found Li Unrivaled atop a towering structure overlooking the city she had seized.
• Li Unrivaled told Ye Lin that her intelligence linked the Evil Cultivators to Star River Cosmos and placed Li Shanchang among them.
• Li Unrivaled explained that she had fought Li Shanchang before, but a black-robed man of comparable strength had rescued him.
• Ye Lin realized the black-robed man could be a formidable opponent and that Li Unrivaled might be the group's target.

Li Unrivaled and Ye Lin faced Li Shanchang and a group of black-clad figures, where Li Unrivaled discovered that Qin An was among them. After Ye Lin saw Qin An’s extraordinary panel, Qin An tried to persuade Li Unrivaled to join him, then threatened to take her by force when she refused.

• Li Unrivaled sensed the approaching black-clad figures and readied her saber as they arrived with Li Shanchang.
• Li Shanchang asked Qin An to severely injure Ye Lin so their karmic connection could be severed, but Qin An ignored him and revealed himself to Li Unrivaled.
• Ye Lin read Qin An’s panel and was stunned by his powerful Fate Traits, including a Sacred Gold trait that prevented his death before reaching the Zenith Heaven realm.
• Qin An asked Li Unrivaled to become his woman and help release the Devil Race’s sealed ancestor, but she refused and accused him of wanting to use her against her father.
• Qin An declared that he would take Li Unrivaled to the Devil Race by force.

Ye Lin destroyed Qin An’s six puppets in his domain, then seized Li Shanchang and demanded to know what other plans he had. Li Shanchang denied targeting Ye Lin and refused to yield, while Li Unrivaled and Qin An continued fighting in the distance.

• Qin An ordered his six black-robed puppets to attack Li Unrivaled while he fought her with a demonic spear.
• Ye Lin pulled the six puppets into his domain, stopped time, and reduced them to dust.
• Ye Lin reappeared beneath the open sky and caught Li Shanchang by the neck before he could react.
• Ye Lin demanded that Li Shanchang reveal his plans, but Li Shanchang denied targeting him and said Ye Lin could kill him if he did not believe him.
• Ye Lin pierced Li Shanchang’s neck, then released him and wiped the blood from his hand.

Ye Lin released Li Shanchang while keeping his own plans hidden. At Mountain-Shaking City, Li Unrivaled faced Qin An, whose half-step True Immortal power and Devil Race treasure threatened to overwhelm her.

• Ye Lin decided Li Shanchang was still useful, then released him and claimed he trusted him.
• Qin An struck Li Unrivaled into Mountain-Shaking City, destroying half the city and revealing his half-step True Immortal cultivation.
• Li Unrivaled stood her ground against Qin An despite her injuries.
• Li Unrivaled summoned the Dawn War Armor and golden saber, drawing on the power of Venerable Taiyi's legacy.
• Qin An formed the top-grade Supreme Artifact Immortal-Slaying Spear from devilish qi, and Li Unrivaled recognized the danger it posed.

Ye Lin and Li Shanchang watched Li Unrivaled and Venerable Taiyi's daughter fight with legendary weapons. The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar awakened, learned where Ye Lin was and who the fighters were, and watched the battle with excitement.

• Ye Lin and Li Shanchang watched the battle as Ye Lin admired Li Unrivaled's armor and spear.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar awakened and asked Ye Lin about his cultivation and their location.
• Ye Lin explained that he was a Heavenly Immortal in a training ground formed from a Daluo Golden Immortal's body.
• Ye Lin told the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar that the fighters were Venerable Taiyi's daughter and the young master of the Devil Race.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar recognized the older generation's grudges in the fight and grew excited to watch.

The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar told Ye Lin how Venerable Taiyi fell in love with a Devil Race woman, was hunted by the Devil Race, and later fought its Grand Elder. It left Ye Lin with the revelation that Venerable Taiyi’s daughter was still alive and that the two juniors’ battle echoed their elders’ old feud.

• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar told Ye Lin that Venerable Taiyi fell in love with the Devil Race clan chief’s daughter and later discovered they had a daughter together.
• After the woman left, Venerable Taiyi slaughtered three major forces, then found his daughter and was hunted by the Devil Race for several million years.
• Venerable Taiyi broke through to the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm and killed his pursuers, prompting the Devil Race clan chief to send its Grand Elder after him.
• Venerable Taiyi defeated and sealed the Grand Elder, forcing the Devil Race to hand over his daughter and granddaughter.
• The Devil Race clan chief killed his own daughter and wounded his granddaughter, but Venerable Taiyi preserved his daughter’s life with Divine Source and withdrew from the world.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar revealed that Venerable Taiyi’s daughter was still alive and compared the juniors’ battle to the old conflict between their elders.

Ye Lin learned that the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar had mysterious strength as Qin An defeated Li Unrivaled and tried to make her join him. As Qin An reached for her, the Dawn War Armor unleashed a terrifying aura that began to collapse the world.

• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar recalled a similar battle between Venerable Taiyi and the Devil Race's Grand Elder and refused to reveal its rank to Ye Lin.
• Qin An defeated Li Unrivaled and offered to spare Ye Lin if she joined him and helped him rule the cosmos.
• Li Unrivaled refused to let Qin An use her to threaten her father, despite her severe injuries.
• Qin An reached for Li Unrivaled, but her Dawn War Armor emitted golden light and an aura that cracked space and threatened to collapse the world.

Ye Lin confronted Qin An to take Li Unrivaled away, but Qin An overwhelmed him with the Immortal-Slaying Spear. Ye Lin brought out the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar, which instantly neutralized the spear’s attack and stripped away its demonic aura.

• Qin An used the Immortal-Slaying Spear to suppress Li Unrivaled’s Dawn War Armor.
• Ye Lin stepped onto the battlefield and challenged Qin An, warning that he was already injured.
• Qin An struck Ye Lin with the spear’s aura, badly injuring him.
• Li Unrivaled offered Ye Lin the Dawn War Armor, but he refused it.
• Ye Lin summoned the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar, which stopped Qin An’s spear attack and drained the Immortal-Slaying Spear of its divinity.

The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar frightened the Immortal-Slaying Spear into helping Qin An flee, leaving Ye Lin amazed by the jar’s power. Li Unrivaled thanked Ye Lin for saving her and wondered about the artifact on his shoulder.

• The Immortal-Slaying Spear’s spirit emerged and respectfully greeted the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar as Venerable One.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar challenged the Immortal-Slaying Spear to spar, but the spear’s spirit refused and fled with Qin An.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar returned to Ye Lin’s shoulder, and Ye Lin wondered about its master, the Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord.
• Li Unrivaled asked Ye Lin what the jar was, but he called it a secret.
• Li Unrivaled thanked Ye Lin for saving her from Qin An and said she owed him another favor.

Qin An learned that the Immortal-Slaying Spear had fled because the broken jar came from the Primordial Era and was beyond even his father’s knowledge. After Qin An left, Ye Lin warned Li Unrivaled to stay alert, while privately valuing the friendship he hoped to build with her.

• Qin An questioned the Immortal-Slaying Spear about the broken jar, but the spear said it had saved his life and refused to explain further.
• The Immortal-Slaying Spear revealed that the jar came from the Primordial Era and was too mysterious for even Qin An’s father to know about.
• Qin An accepted that the spear would not tell him more, then left while planning to seek another chance to capture Li Unrivaled.
• Ye Lin warned Li Unrivaled that Qin An would likely return and urged her to stay in contact with him.
• Li Unrivaled thanked Ye Lin and acknowledged that she owed him two favors, while Ye Lin privately hoped to gain her friendship.

Ye Lin left Li Unrivaled after helping save his life, then returned to the Dao Heaven Sect and visited Bai Ziran to ask her to teach him formations. He planned to stay close to Bai Ziran so he could use her against Yang Xiu two months later.

• Ye Lin told Li Unrivaled he was leaving and resolved to plan how to bring down Yang Xiu.
• Ye Lin avoided targeting Qin An because he feared being traced through divination after returning to the Star River Cosmos.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar refused to reveal the origins of the Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord, and Ye Lin set aside his curiosity.
• Ye Lin arrived at the Dao Heaven Sect and went directly to Bai Ziran's dwelling, stopping outside her Illusion Formation.
• Ye Lin praised Bai Ziran's formation skills and asked her to teach him, offering to compensate her.
• Ye Lin planned to invite Bai Ziran to watch a grand performance and use her to turn Yang Xiu against his senior sisters.

Bai Ziran challenged Ye Lin to break the Illusion Formation in her courtyard, which her master had laid. After Bai Ziran played her Jade Flute, Ye Lin realized he had already been drawn into an illusion resembling his past.

• Bai Ziran explained that the formation in her courtyard was an Illusion Formation and invited Ye Lin to try breaking it.
• Bai Ziran warned Ye Lin that the formation would conjure illusions from what he imagined and could not let go of.
• Bai Ziran played her Jade Flute, and Ye Lin shut his eyes to guard his mind.
• Ye Lin opened his eyes on a muddy country road, where three young men urged him to hurry to the Azure Cloud Sect's disciple recruitment ceremony.
• Ye Lin realized the flute music had trapped him, while the young men teased him about being lovesick and missing little bellybands.

Ye Lin found himself back at the beginning of his journey to Azure Cloud Sect, now crippled and without talent, and traveled with Gu Qing, Li Luo, and another young man toward the sect. With recruitment two days away and Beast Forest blocking their route, the group faced a dangerous crossing and asked Ye Lin for a plan.

• Ye Lin recognized that he had returned to the start of his journey to Azure Cloud Sect, though he was now a cripple with trash talent.
• Ye Lin joined three young men, including Gu Qing and Li Luo, and traveled with them for a month through difficult terrain.
• Gu Qing explained that Azure Cloud Sect's recruitment assembly would begin in two days and that the group had to cross Beast Forest to reach the sect.
• Li Luo urged the group to brave Beast Forest together, confident they could handle its wild beasts.
• The group asked Ye Lin whether he had any ideas for crossing Beast Forest.

Ye Lin and the other three entered Beast Forest as part of the Azure Cloud Sect trial, where they discovered signs of enormous beasts. A giant python attacked them, and as they fled, Gu Qing warned that someone would have to lure it away or they would all die.

• Ye Lin agreed to enter Beast Forest despite his doubts about whether his life as a Heavenly Immortal had been only an illusion.
• Li Luo, Qin Feng, Gu Qing, and Ye Lin entered the forest after resting briefly.
• Qin Feng identified droppings and a massive shed skin that suggested tigers, elephants, and a huge python lived in the forest.
• A giant python emerged from the bushes, and the four fled as it pursued them, smashing stones and trees.
• Gu Qing shouted that the python was too fast and someone needed to lure it away.

After Li Luo sacrificed himself to distract the python, Qin Feng, Gu Qing, and Ye Lin faced an impassable gorge and worked together to make a rope from tree bark. They reached the bottom of the cliff, where Qin Feng declared that their next goal was to climb back up.

• Li Luo drew the python away so Gu Qing, Qin Feng, and Ye Lin could escape, but the python swallowed him when he ran out of strength.
• Gu Qing, Qin Feng, and Ye Lin found themselves unable to cross a hundred-meter-wide gorge and began weaving tree bark into a rope.
• Qin Feng kept working despite his bloody hands, and Gu Qing and Ye Lin joined him after an immortal cultivator streaked overhead.
• After a day and night, the three finished the rope, secured it to a tree, and climbed down to the bottom of the cliff.
• Qin Feng pointed toward the cliff face and said their next goal was to climb back up.

Bai Ziran guarded Ye Lin as he remained trapped in an illusion for five days. Inside it, Ye Lin and Gu Qing climbed toward the Azure Cloud Sect, and Ye Lin was left questioning why he felt no grief after Qin Feng fell to his death.

• Bai Ziran noted that Ye Lin had been motionless in the illusion for five days and sat beside him to guard him.
• Ye Lin, Gu Qing, and Qin Feng climbed a dangerous cliff to reach the Azure Cloud Sect's disciple recruitment ceremony in time.
• Exhausted and unable to continue, Qin Feng released his grip and fell to his death after asking Ye Lin and Gu Qing to carry on.
• Ye Lin and Gu Qing continued climbing, while Ye Lin wondered why he could feel no sorrow for his fallen friends.
• Ye Lin and Gu Qing reached the summit and fell asleep from exhaustion.

Ye Lin and Gu Qing woke late for the disciple-taking ceremony, only to encounter a Tiger. Gu Qing charged the beast to give Ye Lin a chance to reach the world of immortal cultivation, leaving Ye Lin to carry their brothers’ hopes forward.

• Gu Qing woke Ye Lin and rushed him toward the disciple-taking ceremony after they slept through the night.
• A Tiger emerged from the shadows, and Gu Qing realized they could not escape by running.
• Gu Qing recalled how he, Ye Lin, Li Luo, and Qin Feng had dreamed of becoming immortal cultivators and traveling together.
• Gu Qing urged Ye Lin to go on without him and charged the Tiger with a wooden stick.
• Ye Lin watched Gu Qing fight while feeling no fear or grief, and Gu Qing called on him to flee.

Ye Lin escaped Beast Forest and learned that Azure Cloud Sect had offered other candidates safer routes, while his three brothers had died because of his mistaken judgment. He reached the sect’s mountain gate, where a disciple healed his injuries.

• Gu Qing shouted at Ye Lin to run and attacked the tiger, while Ye Lin fled through the forest without stopping.
• Ye Lin emerged from Beast Forest and met Wang Dong, who explained that other candidates had taken safer roads to Azure Cloud Sect.
• Ye Lin grieved over the deaths of his three brothers as he followed Wang Dong toward Azure Cloud Sect.
• Ye Lin and Wang Dong arrived at the sect’s mountain gate, where a disciple recognized Ye Lin and healed him with a green light.