Recaps

Ye Lin defeated the Vermilion Bird, survived a captivity with Wang Zheng, and accepted an old man’s request to find his granddaughter in Liuli Commandery. He reached Abyss Gate with Ye Xin while Zhang Ling'er and Luo Yao searched separately, but an unseen person confronted him.

• Ye Lin and Xinyou killed the Vermilion Bird, and Ye Lin later found Wang Zheng fighting a giant bear.
• Ye Lin and Wang Zheng were captured by a group guarded by two Quasi-Saints, but the Qilin Saint rescued them after Ye Lin called for help.
• Ye Lin found thirty Blood-Colored Beads in the ruined stronghold and fled before powerful figures arrived.
• In Broken Bone City, a wounded old man asked Ye Lin to find his granddaughter near Abyss Gate in Liuli Commandery and gave him a pouch and eighty million transaction points.
• Ye Lin returned to Mara Temple and set out for Liuli Commandery with Zhang Ling'er, Luo Yao, and Ye Xin.
• The group found a wedding beside a funeral, and Ye Lin learned that the bride had allied with the Zhao Family to avenge her father.
• Ye Lin used Luo Yao’s map to locate Abyss Gate, then sent Zhang Ling'er and Luo Yao to search separately while he went there with Ye Xin.
• At Abyss Gate, Ye Lin found a bare peak surrounded by empty mountains, and an unseen person asked what he was sneaking around for.

Ye Lin found the imprisoned woman he sought and learned the truth behind her promise to return to the Holy Sword Sect, then fought off assassins sent after him. He recovered in seclusion while Nangong Xuanyi waited outside his cave.

• Ye Lin found the woman bound beneath the scorched wasteland, and the old man recognized her as his granddaughter before asking Ye Lin to end her suffering.
• Ye Lin ended the woman’s life and read her diary, learning that she had planted a peach tree linked to her Fate Heart and promised to return to her senior brother.
• Ye Lin showed the diary to the senior brother at the Holy Sword Sect, where the peach tree had bloomed, and the young man embraced the woman’s corpse as the island vanished.
• Ye Lin transferred the old man’s transaction points and gave Zhang Ling'er and Luo Yao cards with points, then set out with them and Ye Xin to find a secluded place.
• A Quasi-Saint and three peak Daluo Golden Immortals attacked Ye Lin and Zhang Ling'er, but Ye Lin killed the three sword-wielding sisters while Zhang Ling'er killed the old man.
• Ye Lin took the others to a protected gorge and entered seclusion to recover, then studied Bing Ruoxin’s late-stage Daluo Golden Immortal lesson and gained insights into the Sword Dao.
• Nangong Xuanyi asked Ye Xin to let him into the cave, was refused, and waited in the distant mountains for three months until Little Dot appeared beside him.

Ye Lin entered the Shenluo Conference to win Bloodthirst Essence for the Spirit King and qualified for the finals after nine consecutive victories. The finals began with Ru Xue defeating Liu Xin and Nangong Xuanyi defeating Ye Xin, while Ye Lin remained among the contestants.

• Nangong Xuanyi and Xuanyuan Liefeng introduced themselves to Ye Xin and asked him to retrieve Nangong Xuanyi’s conference ticket from the occupied cave, but Zhang Ling'er brought out the card and explained that spectators could attend without one.
• Ye Lin learned that the conference’s first-place prize was Bloodthirst Essence, which the Spirit King needed, and decided to compete, and Zhang Ling'er vouched for his entry, and he was assigned to Zone One.
• Ye Lin chose to fight nine matches in a row and defeated eight opponents, including the invisible Wei Cheng, before learning that his ninth opponent would be available the next day.
• Nangong Xuanyi warned Ye Lin about the suicidal Kuang Feng and the formidable Chu Jingming, while Ye Lin refused Kuang Feng’s request to kill him.
• Ye Lin killed the Blood Demon in his ninth match, qualified for the finals, and slept through the month before Sheng Mingyue escorted him to the finalists’ arena.
• Zhang Ling'er told Ye Lin she had bet on him to take first place, and the hosts introduced Chu Jingming as Cloud Province’s top young prodigy before Ru Xue defeated Liu Xin without using a divine ability.
• Nangong Xuanyi and Ye Xin faced each other in the second match, and Ye Lin lent Ye Xin Azure Frost after learning that he had no weapon.
• Nangong Xuanyi used his afterimages and Tide of the Sea, Heaven and Earth Tide—sever to overwhelm Ye Xin, who conceded before the phantom blade could kill him.

Ye Lin fought through the Shenluo Conference and became its champion, then challenged Chu Jingming despite the overwhelming gap between them. After Chu Jingming apparently killed him, Ye Lin met Ye Xiu in a vision and was urged to accept his defeat and make up for what he lacked.

• Ye Lin defeated Chen Changsheng after exposing his attempted ambush, enduring his attacks, and cutting him down until he surrendered.
• Xuanyuan Liefeng overwhelmed Ru Xue, but Chu Jingming intervened and killed Liefeng after letting him land three attacks.
• Ye Lin insulted Chu Jingming, advanced through his remaining conference battles, and became champion when the other finalists withdrew so he could face Chu Jingming at full strength.
• Chu Jingming offered to spare Ye Lin if he knelt, but Ye Lin drew his swords and attacked, only to be repeatedly overpowered.
• Ye Lin activated his Chaos Sword Body and wounded Chu Jingming, then used the Nine Nether Prison Flame and severed his arm.
• Chu Jingming extinguished the flames with the Water Element Pearl’s Supreme Pure Divine Water and overwhelmed Ye Lin with his full aura.
• Chu Jingming pierced Ye Lin’s chest and mind, apparently killing him, while the watching cultivators mourned and a powerful cultivator sensed danger near Ye Lin’s body.
• Ye Lin sat beneath the blue tree and told Ye Xiu he had lost the will to continue, and Ye Xiu offered him wine and urged him to accept the loss and make up for what he lacked.