Recaps

Ye Lin allied with the Spirit King, supplying captives in exchange for treasures and a powerful puppet. As he expanded his dealings in Divine Capital City, Wang Mingyang sought access to the secret realm, but Ye Lin refused to share that connection.

• The Spirit King revealed the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan’s history and offered Ye Lin treasures in exchange for living blood prey, warning him to keep the secret realm hidden.
• Ye Lin visited Zhao Qing and persuaded the city’s leaders to supply captives, offering them treasures and creation-power rewards.
• The Four Great Families and Sun Sheng seized cultivators beyond the city, and Ye Lin collected their captives for the Spirit King.
• The Spirit King rewarded Ye Lin with treasures and a peak Daluo Golden Immortal puppet, which Ye Lin awakened with his blood and named Ye Xin.
• Ye Lin spent five years cultivating while the city’s leaders continued capturing cultivators, then received a large shipment from Wang Mingyang.
• Wang Mingyang asked Ye Lin to introduce him to the Spirit King, but Ye Lin refused and paid him ten creation-powered treasures for the captives.
• Ye Lin took the captives toward the secret realm, discovered Wang Mingyang following him, and heard him propose that they cooperate without interfering with each other.

Ye Lin introduced Wang Mingyang to the Spirit King and helped arrange cooperation between the Wang Family and the secret realm. After discovering the Origin Chamber of Commerce’s paid cultivation courses, Ye Lin left with a new commission to exchange the Spirit King’s resources for Xuan Yang Jinyi Iron.

• Ye Lin rejected Wang Mingyang’s proposal, then entered the secret realm and told the Spirit King about the Wang Family’s offer to cooperate.
• The Spirit King showed Ye Lin the World Seed that sustained the secret realm, invited him to White King Palace, and sampled his Immortal Peach Wine.
• Ye Lin returned to Divine Capital City and found Luo Yao safe, then agreed to hear Wang Mingyang’s proposal after Sun Sheng had stopped him from taking her.
• Wang Mingyang gave Ye Lin an Origin Chamber of Commerce transaction card, and Ye Lin used it to study a Sword Dao course taught by Bing Ruoxin.
• Ye Lin traveled to the secret realm with Wang Mingyang, Luo Yao, and Xinyou, where the Spirit King’s powerful attendants intimidated Wang Mingyang before negotiations.
• The Spirit King and Wang Mingyang agreed to cooperate, with Wang Mingyang required to obtain Ye Lin’s approval before every transaction.
• Ye Lin said he needed to visit the Origin Chamber of Commerce, and the Spirit King gave him resources to exchange for Xuan Yang Jinyi Iron.

Ye Lin crossed the barrier into the demon-haunted region and hunted Evil Crystals while trying to reach the Origin Chamber of Commerce. After learning how the crystals were made and surviving the darkness, he encountered Bai Xue again and was confronted by a group demanding their possessions.

• Ye Lin left Luo Yao with Spirit King and traveled toward the Origin Chamber of Commerce, where he rescued Chunxin and her senior brother before reaching a barrier around Long River Prefecture.
• Ye Lin paid to enter the sealed region, learned that Evil Demons grew stronger after dark, and discovered that the Origin Chamber of Commerce rewarded Evil Crystals.
• Ye Lin uncovered a trove of 634 Evil Crystals in a ruined city, then found Chunxin captive in a cave and freed her after her senior brother had died.
• Ye Lin encountered Bai Xue in a mountain cave and learned that Evil Demons made Evil Crystals by sealing purified earthly spiritual energy.
• Ye Lin and Bai Xue took the crystals before powerful cultivators arrived, and Ye Lin used Evil Demon blood to remove the stench from his haul.
• Ye Lin fled pursuing Evil Demons through the night underground and surfaced in an unfamiliar place, then confirmed he was heading toward his destination at the Ghost God Sect ruins.
• Bai Xue accused Ye Lin of following her, and a group that had tracked them demanded their Evil Crystals and everything else they carried.

Ye Lin traded for Xuan Yang Jinyi Iron, attended the Origin Chamber of Commerce, and returned to prepare for the Wang Family wedding. The arc left Xinyou’s breakthrough hanging in the balance after the final strike of his Daluo Golden Immortal tribulation destroyed his fleshly body.

• Ye Lin escaped the experts demanding his goods and traveled with Bai Xue to the Origin Chamber of Commerce, where he exchanged his treasures for trade points and bought two hundred tons of Xuan Yang Jinyi Iron.
• Ye Lin watched Heavenly Heart defeat Yun Lie in the Duel Arena, then experienced a thousand lives in Mandarin Duck Valley before leaving the Chamber.
• Ye Lin returned to the secret realm and gave the Spirit King the iron, then agreed to represent him at the Wang Family wedding.
• Ye Lin brought captured beings from the Four Great Families to Sun Sheng for safekeeping and gave him one percent of the Spirit King’s resources.
• Ye Lin stopped to guard Xinyou as the beast began breaking through, while Tang Feng and members of the Supreme Sword Sect arrived on their way to the wedding.
• Liu Zifang and Ji Xue said they wanted to capture and tame Xinyou, while Tang Feng promised to stop Liu Zifang if he attacked.
• Xinyou endured five hours of heavenly thunder and transformed into a colossal white beast, but the final violet-red bolt struck and his fleshly body collapsed.