Recaps

Ye Lin and his companions entered the Netherworld Ghost Realm, confronted the people and wrongs haunting them, and emerged after resolving their inner demons. As the group waited for the next secret realm, Ye Lin killed Gu Sect disciples and faced Xiao Yun, whose Time Gu pulled him and Xu Feng into a ruined future.

• After five hundred years of cultivation, Ye Lin led his companions to the Netherworld Ghost Realm, where entrants faced trials shaped by their fears, enemies, and past wrongs.
• Ye Lin entered alone after entrusting Shangguan Wanyu and Luo Yao to the guardian, then defeated Zhang Liang and overcame successive mindscapes without wavering.
• Wang Tian confronted Zhao Li, Bao Xiaotou faced Lan'er, and Li Xiaoyao dismissed the dead figures in his mind before they each left the realm.
• Ye Lin and his companions gathered outside the realm, then resumed cultivation as five hundred years passed and Ye Lin reached the third level of the Golden Immortal Realm.
• Ye Lin killed a group of Gu Sect disciples who had threatened an old man and his granddaughter, prompting Xiao Yun to seek revenge.
• Xu Feng set out after Xiao Yun, and Ye Lin fought the Gu Sect chief disciple, learning that Xiao Yun used Time Gu to appear across different moments.
• Xiao Yun pulled Ye Lin, Xu Feng, and their companions into a spacetime rift and brought them to a future of ruined stars and shattered worlds.

Ye Lin killed Xiao Yun, claimed the Time Gu, and returned to the present with Xu Feng and his companions. He entered the Black Tortoise Secret Realm, claimed an azure pearl, and began a trial that stripped away his power and forced him to cross a desert as a mortal.

• Ye Lin used the Lock of Void to stop Xiao Yun from escaping, took the Time Gu, and killed him with the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and Beginningless True Flame.
• Time Gu recognized Ye Lin as its master, and he used its power to bring Xu Feng and his companions back to the present era.
• Xu Feng warned Ye Lin that Old Gu King would pursue him, then gave him a Spatial Ring of resources and an Identity Token from the Shadowkill Clan.
• After a year of secluded cultivation, Ye Lin and his companions entered the Black Tortoise Secret Realm, where the guardian defended the Identity Token requirement and challenged regional discrimination.
• Ye Lin and Gu Congshuang found a hidden chamber beneath a chair, melted its white door with Beginningless True Flame, and disputed ownership of an azure pearl.
• Gu Congshuang drew most of the prodigies away while Ye Lin fought three attackers and escaped the hall using Time Stop.
• Ye Lin entered a spatial gate and completed the first trial by killing thirty Demon Beasts, earning three Origin Transformation Pills and a Nine-Grade Sacred Lotus.
• Ye Lin continued into a trial that sealed his power and forced him to cross a desert as a mortal, while Gu Congshuang entered a spatial gate guarded by Black Tortoise statues.

Ye Lin survived the desert trial with the help of White Wind’s caravan, then entered a third trial that sent him to serve in the Heavenly Court. Ordered to hunt a Human Race prodigy, Ye Lin defeated Xu Feng and challenged his claim to be humanity’s hope, planning to use the confrontation to change his reputation.

• Ye Lin joined White Wind’s caravan after White Lotus found him in the desert, then killed Li Shou’s attack and helped the group survive Desert Loners and highway robbers.
• Ye Lin taught Wang Hu the Heavenly Star Step, but Wang Hu died protecting him during a giant wolf attack.
• Ye Lin led the caravan through an approaching sandstorm to an oasis, completed the second trial, and received the Starry Formula while the trial voice fulfilled Wang Hu’s wish.
• Ye Lin began the third trial as a Heavenly Court soldier and accepted a mission from Lin Yun to destroy a Human Race prodigy’s body and return his Primordial Spirit.
• Ye Lin led Heavenly Soldiers to World Number Thirty-Eight, where Xu Feng had defied the Heavenly Court after killing its guardian.
• Ye Lin defeated Xu Feng with the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art, then sent his soldiers to search for strange entities.
• Ye Lin warned Xu Feng that his recklessness endangered the Human Race and accused him of being the true traitor, leaving Xu Feng unable to answer.

Ye Lin used his missions and position within the Heavenly Court to weaken it while the Human Race rose against its rule. After agreeing to join the Human Race, he arrived at the Holy Palace as it prepared a full-scale counterattack.

• Xu Feng admitted his mistake, and Ye Lin captured his Primordial Spirit while warning the Human Race elders to hide from other Heavenly Court guardians.
• Ye Lin searched the Southern Wasteland for an anomaly, then ordered his soldiers to kill the people of the Heavenly Origin Sect when the Heavenly Court gave him no more time to investigate.
• Ye Lin completed his mission but learned that Lin Yun would receive the reward, and Lin Yun was sentenced to a hundred years in the heavenly prison after attacking Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin cultivated as the Human Race gained a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal and claimed territory, prompting the Heavenly Court to declare war.
• Ye Lin led his soldiers in world 12308, stalled rather than attacking the Human Race, and secretly ordered his troops to hinder its advance while staying alive.
• Lin Yun’s remaining forces fled to Ye Lin’s world, where Human Race experts killed Lin Yun and his troops, and Ye Lin refused their invitation to defect until the conflict was settled.
• After the Human Race seized half the Heavenly Court’s territory, Ye Lin told the old man he would join its counterattack and later refused a golden-armored general’s order to take his own life.
• Ye Lin arrived at the Holy Palace, where the old man announced that the Human Race would launch a full-scale counterattack and had to capture Myriad Source Mountain within a month.