Recaps

Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi uncovered the Divine Gu Sect’s secrets while fighting its guardians and confronting its dying Third Elder. The group found a chamber containing a living Mother-Child Gu, and Ye Lin noticed a jade pendant whose Killing Intent and resentment could strengthen his Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art.

• Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi defeated the regenerating monster, and Xinyou devoured it and grew stronger.
• Ye Lin used the Time Gu to devour the Divine Gu inside a cocoon, then exposed an impostor posing as Xu Feng.
• Li Xiaoyao battled the Mountain God over its green pearl, while a counterfeit Ye Lin revealed himself as a mass of insects and the Mountain God died.
• Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi met the dying Third Elder, who admitted he had posed as Xu Feng and offered the sect’s secret in exchange for vital essence.
• After the Third Elder died, Ye Lin found a hidden passage beneath his seat and led the group into an underground chamber of human-headed cocoons.
• The group discovered a furnace containing a mother and child surrounded by Gu insects, and San Zang identified them as a Mother-Child Gu.
• San Zang explained that the Divine Gu Sect had tortured the mother and unborn child to create Heart-Severing Gu, then warned that they could awaken.
• Ye Lin noticed a jade pendant in the mother and child’s arms, and the old man told him its Killing Intent and resentment could be absorbed by his Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art.

Ye Lin used the Human Emperor Sword to cleanse the Mother-Child Gu and claimed Heavenly Dao merit, then his group obtained Soul-Ending Grass and learned that the Eerie had returned. The arc left them traveling through the ruined world as they encountered a woman corrupted by a bizarre spirit.

• Ye Lin took the jade pendant from the pill furnace and fought the Mother-Child Gu as its controlled dead and human cocoons attacked the group.
• San Zang explained that the Mother-Child Gu made its victims undying, while the group found a hidden chamber and was attacked by a powerful old man who repeatedly revived.
• Ye Lin wielded the Human Emperor Sword and the Human Race’s fortune to erase the controlled figures and cleanse the mother and child, earning Heavenly Dao merit that he gave to the sword.
• Wang Tian treated Shuang’er’s damaged Primordial Spirit, and the group left the Divine Gu Sect to search for Soul-Ending Grass.
• Wang Tian discovered that the ancient tree was Soul-Ending Grass and used the Nine Provinces Cauldron to take its trunk and bark while leaving its roots alive.
• After emerging from the passage, Ye Lin identified an unfamiliar aura in the ruined world as the Eerie and warned the group about uncanny beings that could imitate others and corrupt cultivators.
• The group traveled through ruins filled with corpses and encountered a woman corrupted by a bizarre spirit, whom San Zang struck down after Ye Lin judged she could not be saved.

Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi hunted bizarre spirits across the secret realm and uncovered the danger behind places such as Profound Void Temple. When powerful older factions seized the realm, the young prodigies resisted their threats before departing, while Ye Lin followed Gu Qingzhi to the Music Sect for help refining his sword.

• San Zang destroyed sinister spirits that took the forms of his childhood friends, while Ye Lin found the Nine Saints Meteoric Iron and killed a spirit resembling Jian Unrivaled.
• Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi confronted Fu Kong at Profound Void Temple, exposed the resentment beneath it, and escaped as the temple collapsed and a golden Buddha cleansed the ruins.
• Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi investigated the Holy Tower, trapped its spirits inside, and fought the woman who summoned a horde of aberrations.
• More than a dozen powerful Golden Immortals entered the secret realm, claimed it for their factions, and ordered the prodigies to leave.
• Ye Lin explained that older powerhouses were exploiting the great age and that the Heavenly Dao could not directly stop them from manipulating the secret realm.
• Ye Lin, Gu Qingzhi, and their companions stood their ground against the elders, who left after hearing of the group’s powerful connections.
• The prodigies decided to leave the realm, while Gu Qingzhi stayed with Ye Lin and offered to arrange the refining of his sword.
• Ye Lin sent Xinyou with Li Xiaoyao’s group for protection, then followed Gu Qingzhi through a portal into the Music Sect’s territory.

Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi traveled to the Second Region with their companions, only to be trapped in the Great Wasteland, a prison hidden inside a grand formation. Bao Xiaotou broke the array and freed its ancient prisoners, while Ye Lin and his group slipped away as the freed powerhouses fought the heavenly forces.

• Gu Qingzhi brought Ye Lin to the Music Sect, where Gu Qingshan recognized his unusual Fate Rank and urged her to befriend him.
• Ye Lin cultivated for five hundred years, reached the fifth layer of the Golden Immortal realm, and received his sword back from Grandpa Zhong as a high-grade Limitless Artifact.
• Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi left for the Second Region, reunited with their companions at the teleportation array, and entered it with the other prodigies.
• The group emerged in the Great Wasteland, where monstrous creatures attacked them and a glowing willow tree revealed that the region was a prison sealed by a grand formation.
• Bao Xiaotou investigated the formation and tried to locate its exit, but someone repeatedly changed its core and obstructed him.
• With Ye Lin and the others supplying power, Bao Xiaotou damaged the heavens above the prison, drawing an attack that Wang Shang shattered as he vowed revenge.
• Bao Xiaotou destroyed the grand array, freeing the imprisoned powerhouses, who rose to fight the heavenly forces while Ye Lin and his companions quietly departed.