Recaps

Ye Lin hunted Heavenly Demons, uncovered the resentment and severed arm hidden beneath the Heaven-Hiding Sacred Land, and led his companions through the Path of Life. After securing their Identity Tokens, the group prepared for the coming secret realms and the next stage of the trial.

• Ye Lin discovered that Heavenly Demons stopped when he stood still and could be killed by striking the golden point on their chests, then shared the weakness with his companions as they hunted for enough points to secure their spots.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar revealed that the Heavenly Demons were puppets formed from resentment and that a genuine Great Luo expert’s severed arm lay sealed beneath the Heaven-Hiding Sacred Land.
• Ye Lin brought Xinyou into the ruins, where Xinyou absorbed the resentment and advanced to the Golden Immortal realm before Ye Lin left without studying the arm.
• Ye Lin reunited with his companions and led them onto the Path of Life, where he refused Li Rufeng’s demand for a slot and defeated Xu Feng in a duel near the Land of Life.
• The guardian gave Ye Lin and his companions Identity Tokens and explained that they had three thousand years to qualify for entry into the second region, with Xinyou arriving in time to claim a spot of its own.
• The guardian announced that the first secret realm would descend in one thousand years and larger numbers of secret realms in two thousand years, then allowed the prodigies to leave.
• Ye Lin and his companions began preparing for seclusion, while Li Xiaoyao departed to seek his own opportunity and Ye Lin turned a barren star into a small world for cultivation.

Ye Lin watched Luo Yao’s small-world adventure unfold as the Human Race endured invasions, political collapse, and civil war. Li Zheng founded Great Qin, which rebuilt its strength and began taking the fight to the Demon Beasts.

• Ye Lin completed the True King Sacred Body’s first layer, then took Luo Yao into a mortal world where Qi Xinxian asked him to save the Human Race.
• After Ye Lin taught Qi Xinxian martial arts, the court killed Qi and Wang Xinyue for trying to change the Great Wild Goose Dynasty, and their followers carried on their work.
• Demon Beast sieges devastated Solitary City, while Wang Yun and the old teacher died and the dynasty fell amid rebellion and civil war.
• Ye Lin placed his hopes in Li Zheng, who left Solitary City and led a million-man army to establish Great Qin beside the imperial capital.
• Great Qin consolidated its rule, spread martial arts, and sent a million soldiers to the Great Wall, where fewer than thirty thousand survived the Demon Beast assault.
• Li Zheng ordered Great Qin to invade the Anxuan Realm, and its army fought the Demon Beasts to a stalemate before reinforcements helped it defeat them and expand its territory.

Ye Lin and his companions entered the Water Spring Secret Realm to collect crystals, fighting Jiang Chenfeng and surviving a month-long Water Spring Worm frenzy. After using the crystals to cultivate, they left their cave to resume the search.

• Ye Lin refused Li Zheng’s offer to become Great Qin’s Imperial Preceptor, then left with Luo Yao as Li Zheng resolved to hunt Demon Beasts and unify the Anxuan Realm.
• Ye Lin reunited with his companions and joined them in entering the Water Spring Secret Realm, where they learned that Water Spring Crystals could strengthen their foundations and that the realm’s worms were deadly.
• Ye Lin led the group into a cave filled with Water Spring Crystals, where Xinyou devoured the Water Spring Worms and grew stronger before Jiang Chenfeng confronted them over the crystals.
• Ye Lin fought Jiang Chenfeng while Li Xiaoyao, Bao Xiaotou, Wang Tian, and Xinyou battled Jiang Chenfeng’s companions, and Shangguan Wanyu collected crystals, and Jiang Chenfeng escaped after Ye Lin’s attacks destroyed his body and reduced his cultivation.
• Ye Lin divided the collected crystals among his companions, and the group searched the mountains for more before a vast swarm of Water Spring Worms forced them into Bao Xiaotou’s cave.
• Ye Lin used a Water Spring Crystal to comprehend the Destruction Sword Dao Law, while his companions cultivated and the others in the realm hid from the month-long worm frenzy.
• After the worms dispersed, Ye Lin agreed to help Bao Xiaotou find more crystals, then led the group out of the cave to continue searching.

Ye Lin used Shangguan Wanyu’s talent to gather Water Spring Crystals, while his group fought off Jian Changfeng and avoided the desperate prodigies hunting for supplies. After leaving the secret realm safely, Ye Lin led his companions to a star where they planned to cultivate in seclusion for five hundred years.

• Ye Lin followed Shangguan Wanyu’s directions to crystal-rich mountains, drew the Water Spring Worms away so his companions could collect crystals, and used the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar to devour the swarm and bind the recovered artifact to himself.
• Jian Changfeng accused Ye Lin’s group of stealing Jiang Chenfeng’s Water Spring Crystal and demanded their crystals, but Ye Lin and his clones defeated him and the jar consumed his vital essence and Primordial Spirit.
• Ye Lin relied on Shangguan Wanyu to locate more crystal deposits while prodigies across the secret realm grew desperate and began robbing one another.
• Xu Feng resolved to rob other cultivators after finding only three small crystals, while Ye Lin’s group stayed out of the fighting and prepared to leave.
• Ye Lin disguised his group’s injuries and slipped out of the Water Spring Secret Realm before its closure, as prodigies fought over who carried the crystals.
• Ye Lin led Li Xiaoyao and the others away from the ensuing battle and, after they reached a star, told them to cultivate in seclusion for five hundred years as part of the Third Region’s trials.