Recaps

Ye Lin and his companions left the Demon Domain, survived a battle with a Heart-Devouring Demon, and reached the Mist Map Star Region. There, they learned that only thirty thousand contestants could advance to the Third Region and were transported to the deadly competition grounds.

• The Demon Domain’s Golden Immortals gave Ye Lin and his companions gifts before Ye Lin departed aboard Mo Cang’s warship, while Xu Changsheng stayed behind to protect the Shu Mountain Sword Sect.
• On the journey to the Mist Map Star Region, Ye Lin’s group was attacked by a Half-Step Golden Immortal whose body merged with his followers to become a Heart-Devouring Demon.
• Bao Xiaotou used his formation to weaken the demon, then activated its hidden grand formation to destroy it after Wen Xin arrived with her five disciples.
• Wen Xin escorted Ye Lin’s group to the Mist Map Star Region and explained that only thirty thousand prodigies could use the array to reach the Third Region.
• Li Xiaoyao killed Xue Feng’s attendants and then Xue Feng after Ye Lin ordered him to ignore the Snow Mountain Sword Sect’s threats.
• A Golden Immortal announced that contestants had to earn points by killing creatures to qualify for the teleportation array, and Ye Lin received a token marked number one.
• Ye Lin woke in a ruined wooden temple at the competition grounds with Li Xiaoyao and the others behind him.

Ye Lin and his companions entered a deadly trial, fought rival prodigies, and joined a massive assault on a Half-Step Golden Immortal savage beast. As a horde forced them to flee, Li Xiaoyao vanished, and Ye Lin was hurled away while investigating a figure at the assessment grounds.

• Ye Lin’s group discovered that Bao Xiaotou had been taken into a separate formation contest, while Wang Tian received alchemy materials and the rest hunted monsters under suppressed cultivation.
• Ye Lin’s companions fought off Xue Feng’s followers, and Ye Lin killed Xue Feng after turning the God-Suppressing Locks against their owners.
• The trial’s organizers ordered the prodigies to kill five Half-Step Golden Immortal savage beasts for a million points each, and Ye Lin led his group to join the attack on one.
• Ye Lin identified a purple crystal beneath the savage beast as its power source and helped organize the prodigies to attack it while Li Xiaoyao led the frontal assault.
• Li Xiaoyao took the beast’s beam head-on, survived, and began recovering after three young men fed him precious pills.
• Ye Lin shielded the fighters with the Beginningless True Flame as they attacked the crystal’s tentacles, but the beast summoned reinforcements and Ye Lin led the prodigies into retreat.
• The young men guarding Li Xiaoyao fled without him, so Ye Lin, Dugu Feng, and Poison Venerable searched the beast horde for him.
• The trial’s organizers defended the dangerous challenge as training for remote-domain prodigies, and Ye Lin rushed toward a figure at the assessment grounds before an enormous force sent him flying.

Ye Lin and his companions survived the assessment’s dangers, secured Azure Dragon Crystals, and parted with Luo Yao and Shangguan Wanyu. When the Golden Immortals announced valuable rewards for hunting the four Half-Step Golden Immortal beasts, Ye Lin reconsidered his plan to lie low and prepared to compete.

• Li Xiaoyao broke through to the Golden Immortal realm, killed the savage beast boss, and left for the Starry Sky, while Ye Lin and his companions hunted the remaining beasts.
• Shangguan Wanyu warned Ye Lin that she and Luo Yao were surrounded, and Ye Lin’s group rescued them from Chen Zi’ang before Ye Lin killed him and his followers.
• Ye Lin and his companions fled a horde of savage beasts into an underground cave, where they met Gu Qianlan and her sisters, who claimed to be wounded by Bloodthirst Demons.
• Ye Lin fought the Heart-Devouring Demons while Gu Qianlan and her sisters stole the Azure Dragon Crystals, but he called the Great River to defeat the demons and stop their escape.
• Ye Lin killed Gu Qianlan and her sisters, kept two Azure Dragon Crystals, and gave one to Dugu Feng before a Golden Immortal took Luo Yao and Shangguan Wanyu away.
• Ye Lin and Dugu Feng chose to hide until the assessment ended, while Old Wang and the Golden Immortals assembled rewards to motivate the contestants.
• The Golden Immortals announced that the four Half-Step Golden Immortal savage beasts carried Dao Seeds and offered prizes to the leading contestants, prompting Ye Lin to leave his hiding place in pursuit of the rewards.

Ye Lin won the combat ranking after helping defeat a Half-Step Golden Immortal savage beast, while Bao Xiaotou and Wang Tian took first in formations and alchemy. The selected prodigies prepared to enter the third region, and Ye Lin received his repaired sword after the old man failed to make it a Limitless Artifact.

• Ye Lin, Dugu Feng, and Poison Venerable joined the fight against a Half-Step Golden Immortal savage beast, and Ye Lin destroyed its power source before killing it and taking first place.
• After hunting for another month, Ye Lin held the top ranking as the selection ended, while Dugu Feng and Poison Venerable revealed they had placed second and third.
• Bao Xiaotou’s Illusion Formation became a little fatty, and the old man named Bao Xiaotou first in the formation competition after recognizing his skill.
• Wang Tian presented five eight-pattern Clear Mind Pills, and the old man selected him as the alchemy competition’s winner.
• The old man announced that thirty thousand prodigies would advance and distributed rewards before opening the teleportation array to the third region.
• Ye Lin asked the old man to repair the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor, then waited with his companions as Bao Xiaotou and Wang Tian arrived after taking first in their competitions.
• Li Xiaoyao, Shangguan Wanyu, and Luo Yao joined the group, and Li Xiaoyao described his new ability to perceive the Mist Map Star Region, the River of Time, and the forces of karma, destiny, and fortune.
• After two days, the old man gave Dugu Feng and Poison Venerable their finished items and returned Ye Lin’s repaired sword, admitting he had failed to make it a Limitless Artifact.