Recaps

Ye Lin and his companions escaped the Crimson Wasteland and entered Great Qin, where they rescued the poisoned Third Prince, Qin Unrivaled. As they escorted him toward the Imperial Capital, White Lotus Cult pursuers tracked them to the Ten Thousand Sword Sect’s ceremony, where Qin Unrivaled confronted three black-clad figures.

• Ye Lin killed Mo Long, escaped the pursuing demons aboard the Cloud-Piercing Shuttle, and learned that the Demon-Monster Realm planned to seize the Immortal God Realm’s Heavenly Dao.
• Know-All dropped Ye Lin and his companions in Western Qin Phoenix Province, where Great Qin soldiers registered them before allowing them to enter.
• Ye Lin rescued the poisoned Qin Unrivaled from his pursuers and agreed to escort him to the Imperial Capital in exchange for a promised reward.
• Qin Unrivaled warned the group about White Lotus Sect checkpoints, and they evaded Dragon Hunt City before crossing the Desolate Plains.
• Yin-Yang Sacred Sect attackers ambushed the group, but Ye Lin and his companions killed them and hurried toward the Ten Thousand Sword Sect.
• Ye Lin chose to attend the Young Sword Master’s Mountain Descent Ceremony rather than cross dangerous forbidden lands or take a long detour.
• At the ceremony, Ye Lin recognized three approaching black-clad figures as White Lotus Cult members, and they addressed Qin Unrivaled as their Fifth Imperial Brother.

Qin Unrivaled escaped Qin Rulie’s attack and gathered Ye Lin and Yun Zhilan’s help to reach the Imperial Capital. As the princes prepared an ambush at Silver Moon Valley, the group chose to travel straight through it.

• Qin Rulie arrived at the Ten Thousand Sword Sect, revealed Qin Unrivaled’s presence, and ordered his forces to kill the gathered cultivators.
• Ye Lin rescued Qin Unrivaled and held off Wang Cang, while several companions left the group and Ye Lin claimed their treasury quotas.
• Ye Lin took Qin Unrivaled to Liuli Sacred Land, where Yun Zhilan agreed to help escort him to the Imperial Capital.
• Yun Zhilan led the group aboard her Flying Boat as the princes learned she was accompanying Qin Unrivaled and began planning an ambush.
• The princes chose Silver Moon Valley as their interception point and mobilized their guards, sect allies, and pledged followers.
• Qin Unrivaled warned the group that Silver Moon Valley was unavoidable and likely held an ambush, but Ye Lin rejected taking a detour.
• Yun Zhilan chose the route through Silver Moon Valley, and the Flying Boat turned toward the valley as she noted the princes’ mutual distrust.

Qin Unrivaled and his companions survived the ambush at Silver Moon Valley and exposed the princes’ schemes, then returned to the Imperial Capital. Ye Lin claimed rare treasures from the imperial treasury and began cultivating with the Wordless Heavenly Book and a Transcendent’s blood.

• Yun Zhilan deduced that the other princes were using the White Lotus Sect and Yin-Yang Sacred Sect to make Qin Unrivaled eliminate the First Prince and take the blame.
• Qin Unrivaled explained that his brothers sought the throne to retain the Great Qin Imperial Dynasty’s national fortune and planned to sacrifice its citizens to seize the Heavenly Dao’s authority.
• At Silver Moon Valley, Ye Lin fought off the attackers while Yun Zhilan confronted Wang Cang, and Qin Unrivaled learned that the other princes had turned against the First Prince.
• Yun Zhilan defeated and killed Wang Cang, then led Qin Unrivaled and the others to the Imperial Capital, where Qin Unrivaled refused an audience with his suspected conspirators and ordered investigations into the princes.
• Qin Unrivaled brought Ye Lin and his companions into the treasury, where Ye Lin took a Substitute Doll, a Transcender’s blood crystal, a Divine Splendor Fruit, a Wordless Heavenly Book fragment, and a primordial pill box.
• Qin Unrivaled let Ye Lin keep the treasures after acknowledging their agreement, then invited him and his companions to stay at his residence.
• Ye Lin returned Qin Unrivaled’s soul of fate, and the group dispersed to travel, pursue breakthroughs, or cultivate in secluded places.
• Ye Lin found the Wordless Heavenly Book blank, then prepared the Transcendent’s blood and Bloodthirsty Demon Sword as the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar sent him memories of its secret technique.

Ye Lin agreed to protect Yue Qingyi for ten years and repeatedly changed her fate while trying to keep her alive. After taking her beyond the Yue Family to see the world, he left for Black Wind Mountain when a purple-gowned woman abducted her.

• Ye Lin fed Great Luo Transcendence blood into the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword until an elderly artifact refiner stabilized it, raised it to the Boundless rank, and asked Ye Lin to marry his granddaughter, Yue Qingyi.
• Ye Lin agreed to stay with Yue Qingyi for ten years, learned that the Heavenly Dao had destined her to die, and persuaded her to keep living when she learned how little her clan valued her.
• Ye Lin stopped Yue Qingyi’s wedding, changed her fate, and discovered that the pills sustaining her were preserving the last trace of her life after she had already died.
• Ye Lin secretly used immortal fortune to sustain Yue Qingyi, then took her away from the Yue Family after her fate panel warned that assassins would come for her.
• Ye Lin brought Yue Qingyi to a city and killed a fighter who threatened her during a marriage contest at the Arena.
• Ye Lin and Yue Qingyi spent the night at an inn, where a purple-gowned woman confronted Ye Lin over his disruption of the contest and abducted Yue Qingyi.
• Ye Lin left for Black Wind Mountain after the woman promised Yue Qingyi would remain safe for three days.