Recaps

Ye Lin and Murong Hanxuan reached Tongtian Pavilion while pursuing their target, then entered its recruitment trials. Chu Yunxiao and He Yunyu displayed extraordinary talent, and Ye Lin and Murong Hanxuan prepared to take the final assessment.

• Ye Lin and Murong Hanxuan escaped the Ten Thousand Demon Cavern and reached the Northern Frontier, where they tracked their target to Hundred Flowers Tower.
• Ye Lin hired Chen Liu to kill Murong Hanxuan, but Murong Hanxuan confronted Chen Liu and joined Ye Lin in fighting him.
• Chen Liu overwhelmed Ye Lin with his Killing Path Domain, but Ye Lin used his clones and Space Halt to kill him, then absorbed his memories and power.
• After Ye Lin finished cultivating, he and Murong Hanxuan set out to find their target in Tongtian Pavilion, whose gates opened early to recruit human prodigies.
• Ye Lin and Murong Hanxuan joined the recruitment trials, climbed the Tongtian Ladder, and crossed the Rainbow Bridge while Ye Lin killed a three-headed dragon with one strike.
• Chu Yunxiao produced a ninety-nine-meter pillar of light in the final assessment, while He Yunyu reached ninety-five meters and vowed to defeat Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin and Murong Hanxuan approached the stone stele to take their final assessment.

Ye Lin and Murong Hanxuan entered Tongtian Pavilion, where their feud entangled Tang Qingru and led to a deadly confrontation. After Murong escaped, Ye Lin waited for him to draw Long Wu into the hunt.

• Ye Lin and Murong Hanxuan passed the stele trial and joined Tongtian Pavilion under the Chief Seat, who warned them not to fight inside the sect.
• At the Grand Competition, Ye Lin identified Tang Qingru as their target and told her that Murong Hanxuan planned to kill her, while Murong secretly recruited her to help trap Ye Lin with Spirit-Seizing Talismans.
• Tang Qingru warned Ye Lin about Murong’s plan, and Ye Lin told her to leave on a mission as bait while he prepared to expose Murong’s betrayal.
• Murong Hanxuan trapped Ye Lin in a city and attacked him, but Ye Lin broke free as Chu Yunxiao and He Yunyu escaped, and Murong fled after summoning a Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox phantom.
• Ye Lin destroyed the phantom, which had devastated the city, then caught up with Murong and tested Tang Qingru’s loyalty before Murong escaped again.
• Ye Lin made a hut by a river and waited for half a month until lightning appeared over a distant mountain and he said the fish had taken the bait.
• Long Wu arrived to meet the injured Murong Hanxuan, revealed he had gained the Thunder Ancestor Sacred Body, and agreed to help kill Ye Lin.

Ye Lin and Tang Qingru left the Northern Frontier and followed Chu Yunxiao and He Yunyu toward the Central Region, where they encountered a starving city and a demon-held island. After joining forces with the wounded Li Unrivaled, they planned a diversion to escape the island and reach Kong Tian.

• Ye Lin killed Murong Hanxuan, while Tang Qingru killed Long Wu and absorbed the power released by his death.
• After refining Murong Hanxuan’s power for a hundred years, Ye Lin gained thirty-eight Myriad Dao Imprints and left Tongtian Pavilion with Tang Qingru.
• Ye Lin and Tang Qingru followed Chu Yunxiao and He Yunyu to Chaotic Mountain City, where they witnessed its starving residents and watched the Bone Clan prodigy take the pair captive.
• The young man freed He Yunyu and Chu Yunxiao after learning of their powerful family connections, and Ye Lin decided to follow them to the Central Region.
• On the island, Ye Lin and Tang Qingru sheltered Li Unrivaled, who explained the dangers of killing six cultivators in the Heavenly Heart Realm and recovered with extraordinary speed.
• Ye Lin learned that a True Immortal-level grand demon guarded the teleportation array, while He Yunyu and Chu Yunxiao departed after its repair.
• Ye Lin agreed to Tang Qingru’s plan to create a commotion, then lured Kong Tian into a forest and offered to help him escape the island.

After escaping the Blazing Fire Demon Race, Ye Lin recovered in An Ran’s village, trained An Xin, and reunited with Li Unrivaled and Tang Qingru. He helped defeat a giant demon and accepted a place in the Dao Heaven Sect, where he planned to get close to Yang Xiu and kill him.

• Kong Tian helped Ye Lin seize a bell and escape the Blazing Fire Demon Race, but a golden palm struck Kong Tian as Ye Lin was transported away.
• An Ran took the injured Ye Lin into her home, where he met An Xin and later taught him the Five Elements Qi Refining Art.
• Ye Lin reunited with Li Unrivaled and Tang Qingru, then stayed in the village for six months as he recovered and An Xin grew stronger.
• Ye Lin left the village, but returned when he learned a giant demon was attacking the formation around it and moved An Ran and An Xin to safety.
• Ye Lin joined Yang Xiu and two Dao Heaven Sect cultivators in fighting the giant demon, and Yang Xiu ultimately destroyed it with the Myriad Thunder Killing Formation.
• Yang Xiu and the two women carried Ye Lin to the Dao Heaven Sect, where Bai Ziran cared for him and introduced him to her master.
• The elder offered Ye Lin the position of Ninth Elder, and Ye Lin accepted after claiming he was a hunted rogue cultivator from another province.
• Ye Lin resolved to use his outsider identity to put Yang Xiu at ease while plotting to kill him.