Recaps

Lin Tian entered the Secret Realm and received detailed intelligence from Mu Chunfeng about the young geniuses of the Three Great Royal Courts. As the Secret Realm connected to the Divine Shaman Royal Court appeared before him, Lin Tian recognized the muscular group from the Divine Martial Royal Court and wondered how their body cultivation compared with his Demon-Subduing Golden Body.

• Lin Tian entered the Secret Realm and found himself on an ancient stone road beneath a starry sky, with a vast sphere of light and a continent visible below.
• Mu Chunfeng called Lin Tian over and passed him detailed information about the current generation of geniuses from the Three Great Royal Courts.
• Lin Tian returned to his place and quickly studied the intelligence before the Secret Realm opened further.
• A second semicircular plaza moved into view, revealing people from the Three Great Royal Courts who could see but not touch Lin Tian's group.
• Lin Tian recognized the heavily built people as members of the Divine Martial Royal Court and wondered how their body-tempering techniques compared with his Demon-Subduing Golden Body.

Lin Tian and the others saw the Three Great Royal Courts through a barrier, and the Royal Court representatives mocked the Dao Origin Sect alliance for their fearful reaction. Elder Zhou traded insults with them before both sides used their Tokens to begin opening the Secret Realm, leaving two halos above a newly raised platform.

• The two semicircular plazas merged, alarming Lin Tian and the others until a light-screen barrier separated the two sides.
• The people of the Three Great Royal Courts mocked the alliance after seeing them recoil, while Yu Xiangtian and the elders noticed their loss of momentum.
• A rune-faced elder addressed Yu Xiangtian and taunted the alliance, prompting Yu Xiangtian to send Elder Zhou to answer him.
• Elder Zhou insulted the Royal Court representatives, and Baturu nearly attacked before another elder stopped him.
• The rune-faced elder and Elder Zhou brought out their Tokens, and the plazas shook as a high platform rose between them.
• Both sides threw their Arenas onto the platform, their Tokens vanished, and two halos appeared above it.

Lin Tian and the Dao Origin Sect watched as prodigies entered the Secret Realm, while he remained wary of the Three Great Royal Courts’ unexplained preparations. Soon, five Dao Origin Sect cultivators died inside, and three badly wounded survivors returned, leaving Elder Zhou and the others desperate to learn what had happened.

• The Three Great Royal Courts sent their first prodigies onto the platform, and Elder Zhou sent Mu Chunfeng and the chosen Dao Origin Sect cultivators after them.
• The platform transported the cultivators into the Secret Realm, leaving behind Teleportation Tokens that could reveal deaths or return their bearers to safety.
• After several batches entered without incident, five Dao Origin Sect Tokens shattered in quick succession, signaling five cultivators’ deaths.
• The Three Great Royal Courts’ elders mocked Elder Zhou over the losses, while he focused on discovering what had happened inside.
• Three Dao Origin Sect cultivators crushed their Tokens and reappeared on the Arena, drenched in blood and near death; one had lost an arm.

After the Royal Court Faction’s coordinated attacks killed seven Upper Sect True Essence Realm cultivators, Mu Chunfeng proposed entering the Secret Realm early to gather their forces and break the deadlock. Elder Zhou approved, and Mu Chunfeng led the fourth group toward the platform to enter.

• Elder Zhou and Elder Ling questioned three wounded cultivators, who said Royal Court experts had ambushed them.
• Lin Tian realized the Upper Sect geniuses faced coordinated attacks and began considering how the Royal Court Faction tracked and assembled its forces.
• Two more Upper Sect Tokens shattered, bringing the True Essence Realm deaths to seven and deepening the Upper Sect Faction’s alarm.
• Mu Chunfeng proposed entering the Secret Realm early and quickly gathering their forces, with himself taking the lead against the Royal Court geniuses.
• Elder Zhou accepted the risks, and Mu Chunfeng headed to the raised platform with several others as the fourth group to enter.

Lin Tian watched the Upper Sect Faction send Mu Chunfeng and other elite True Essence Realm disciples into the Secret Realm, hoping they could turn the tide after mounting losses. Their arrival led to a sudden reversal, as the Royal Court Faction lost more Tokens than the Upper Sect Faction, and its elders realized they had underestimated the Dao Origin Sect’s strongest disciples.

• Lin Tian recognized Mu Chunfeng and the other elite True Essence Realm disciples and understood that the Upper Sect Faction was using them to stop the Royal Court Faction’s attacks.
• As Upper Sect Faction Tokens continued to shatter, Lin Tian worried that the disciples would lose their resolve and that he might have to face the Secret Realm alone.
• Mu Chunfeng and his companions entered the Secret Realm while the Royal Court Faction showed no reaction, leaving Lin Tian unsure whether they had planned ahead or were simply overconfident.
• The Royal Court Faction’s Tokens began breaking in a chain, and its losses soon surpassed those of the Upper Sect Faction.
• The Royal Court Elders realized that Mu Chunfeng and the other newly arrived disciples were responsible, and understood they had dismissed the Dao Origin Sect’s elites when gathering intelligence.

The Upper Sect Faction and the Royal Court Faction erupted into a brief, large-scale battle inside the Secret Realm, and the Royal Court suffered far heavier losses. Lin Tian learned that Mu Chunfeng’s True Scripture had been crucial to the victory, while the Royal Court’s elders appeared unwilling to let the matter go.

• Guerdo summoned another batch of Royal Court geniuses after the Upper Sect Faction sent its own into battle.
• The fifth through tenth batches entered the Secret Realm without incident, leading Lin Tian to wonder whether both factions had agreed to coexist peacefully.
• As the eleventh batch entered, Tokens shattered in a sudden battle, and wounded cultivators began returning from the Secret Realm.
• The Royal Court lost twenty-five cultivators and saw thirty withdraw, while the Upper Sect Faction lost five and had ten withdraw.
• Lin Tian learned that Mu Chunfeng had killed more than half of the Royal Court geniuses in the battle and realized the True Scripture had enabled his strength.

Lin Tian decided to enter the Secret Realm alone to intimidate the Royal Court and secure its resources, despite Elder Zhou’s concerns about the danger. Elder Zhou reluctantly accepted after Lin Tian promised he could escape, but changed the plan so the others would enter after five batches rather than ten.

• The Secret Realm’s two sides settled into a cautious deadlock, and the final True Essence Realm disciples entered before the lower-realm disciples were due to take their turn.
• The Upper Sect disciples and elders looked to Lin Tian to become their answer to the Royal Court’s threat.
• Lin Tian chose to step forward because he needed the Secret Realm’s cultivation benefits and Origin Crystals, and believed he could withstand its dangers.
• Lin Tian ascended the high platform alone and secretly told Elder Zhou he planned to face the next ten batches by himself.
• Elder Zhou objected, then reluctantly agreed after Lin Tian explained he could crush his Token to escape, but limited the solo plan to five batches.

Lin Tian stepped forward alone to challenge the Three Great Royal Courts’ geniuses and provoked them with a gesture. Agul and Guerdo recognized that he was trying to build momentum like Mu Chunfeng, and Guerdo began planning to kill him in the Secret Realm.

• Lin Tian agreed to Elder Zhou’s revision and stepped onto the platform alone, while the disciples behind him learned of his plan through voice transmissions.
• Lin Tian gestured at the Royal Court camp, enraging its geniuses and elders as they realized he meant to challenge them alone.
• Baturu urged the Divine Martial Royal Court’s geniuses to attack Lin Tian, but Agul warned that Lin Tian was trying to repeat Mu Chunfeng’s strategy and undermine their prestige.
• Guerdo restrained Baturu, stressed that the upper sect alliance was stronger than expected, and declared that Lin Tian should be made to die in the Secret Realm.

Guerdo devised a plan to make Lin Tian reveal his secret technique before sending stronger Royal Court fighters to kill him. Lin Tian entered the Secret Realm, headed for a nearby resource point, and the Royal Court geniuses began gathering to hunt him down.

• Guerdo convinced Baturu and Agul to send ten strong but not their strongest geniuses against Lin Tian, then follow with an even stronger pair after Lin Tian used his trump card.
• The ten Royal Court geniuses confronted Lin Tian on the Arena, made a Royal Court decree of certain death, and entered the Secret Realm with him.
• Lin Tian checked his surroundings, used Mu Chunfeng's map to locate a nearby Earth Vein Origin Power resource point, and set off toward it.
• The Royal Court geniuses used gu worms to find one another and began gathering in the Secret Realm.
• A burly man encountered Guercha near a swamp and demanded Lin Tian's location so he could kill him.

Guercha tried to keep Balu focused on the mission to expose Lin Tian's trump cards, but Balu insisted on hunting him alone until Guercha invoked the three elders' orders. As seven members of the team gathered, Guercha began using a crystal to locate Lin Tian, revealing the Divine Shaman Royal Court's ability to control the timing of heaven.

• Guercha warned Balu that their mission was to force Lin Tian to reveal his trump cards, not kill him, and urged him to wait for the others.
• Balu dismissed Guercha's caution and demanded Lin Tian's location so he could hunt him alone; Agushi arrived on his Blackfeather Eagle as the gu insects indicated the others were near.
• Guercha warned Balu that the three elders would hold him responsible if he ruined the mission, making Balu's ambition subside.
• Several more members arrived, leaving only three of the original ten-person team absent, and Guercha and Balu stopped arguing.
• Guercha chanted over a fist-sized crystal and channelled power into it to locate Lin Tian.

Guercha gathered the ten members of the Royal Court Faction and used a crystal ball to lead them toward Lin Tian. Meanwhile, Lin Tian discovered a medium-sized Origin Power Spring, unaware that the others were closing in.

• Guercha's crystal ball detected Lin Tian's aura and pointed the Royal Court Faction toward him.
• Guercha warned the other nine members not to disrupt the elders' mission before Lin Tian was found, and they agreed.
• The ten Royal Court members set off, and Guercha sensed that Lin Tian was moving closer to them.
• Lin Tian entered a cavern and sensed an unusually rich concentration of Secret Realm Origin Power.
• Lin Tian found a glowing pool that he recognized as a medium-sized Origin Power Spring and prepared to gather its power.

Lin Tian used a black Origin Storage Crystal to absorb Secret Realm Origin Liquid while the ten geniuses of the Royal Court tracked him to his cave. He emerged to confront them, and Balu charged ahead to claim the credit as Guercha rushed to catch up.

• Lin Tian regretted that he could not absorb the Secret Realm Origin Liquid himself, then tossed the black Origin Storage Crystal toward the spring and watched it absorb the liquid.
• Guercha led the nine other Royal Court geniuses to Lin Tian’s cave after his crystal ball located the target.
• Agushi and Guercha claimed that Lin Tian was absorbing Secret Realm Origin Power, persuading the others that the cave was not an ambush.
• Lin Tian sensed the group approaching and appeared at the cave entrance, startling the ten geniuses.
• Balu charged at Lin Tian and slashed back the people trying to overtake him, while Guercha hurried after them to avoid losing the chance to earn credit.

Lin Tian unleashed five fused strands of true qi against the Royal Court geniuses in the Secret Realm, while the Upper Sect Faction watched the Token display outside. After eight Royal Court Tokens shattered, Gu Qingshuang realized Lin Tian had hidden strength and feared they could not compete with him for Secret Realm Origin Crystals.

• Lin Tian charged Balu with his spear wrapped in Spear Intent, a golden layer around his body, and five fused strands of Primordial True Qi.
• A Royal Court Token shattered outside the Secret Realm, prompting the Upper Sect Faction to suspect Lin Tian was fighting the Royal Court group.
• Eight Tokens belonging to Royal Court geniuses who had entered with Lin Tian shattered in rapid succession.
• Gu Changyuan and Gu Qingshuang were stunned by Lin Tian's apparent ability to kill eight opponents of the same realm at once.
• Gu Qingshuang recalled that Lin Tian had hidden his strength when they fought and worried that her group could not compete with him for Secret Realm Origin Crystals.

Guercha escaped the Secret Realm after Lin Tian killed the Royal Court Faction’s other nine fighters, and he reported what he had witnessed to the three elders. He then offered to provide another crucial piece of information, leaving the elders waiting to hear it.

• Two Tokens began flashing, signaling that the last Royal Court Faction fighters were about to emerge from the Secret Realm.
• Another Token shattered, and Guercha appeared on the platform, collapsing in terror.
• Guerdo and the other elders questioned Guercha about the casualties and their failed mission.
• Guercha recounted that Lin Tian had killed the fighters one by one with his Long Spear, including Agushi as he tried to escape.
• Guercha stood up and offered the elders another piece of extremely important information.

Guerdo learned that Guercha claimed he could guide Royal Court disciples to Lin Tian, and planned to use the information to gather an ambush. Lin Tian waited for the Royal Court’s response while collecting Secret Realm Origin Power and considered how to use their Energy Storage Crystals.

• Guercha told Guerdo he could guide incoming disciples to Lin Tian, and Guerdo considered gathering dozens of top Gang Realm geniuses to attack him.
• Guercha concealed that Lin Tian had told him he was waiting in the Secret Realm, and falsely claimed he had planted a tracking mark.
• Lin Tian returned to the Origin Power Spring, prepared for the Royal Court’s attack, and took out a compass to search for a Secret Realm Origin Crystal.
• Lin Tian’s Energy Storage Crystal displayed a white trace showing it had collected enough Secret Realm Origin Power for ten Gang Realm martial artists to cultivate.
• Lin Tian considered how much Origin Power he would need to strengthen his five strands of True Gang and reach the True Essence Realm, then examined looted Royal Court Energy Storage Crystals and formed an idea.

Lin Tian discovered that his Formless Combat Technique could manipulate Secret Realm Origin Power, letting him store it in Energy Storage Crystals without relying on the sect. While investigating the Broken Sword in his mind, he sensed its spatial attribute and encountered the Martial Dao Will inside it, which suddenly surged toward him.

• Lin Tian used his Formless Combat Technique to pull Secret Realm Origin Power from an Energy Storage Crystal and realized he could control origins.
• Lin Tian placed two more crystals at the Origin Power Spring, leaving three crystals to absorb Secret Realm Origin Power.
• Lin Tian investigated the Broken Sword in his Sea of Consciousness and sensed that it possessed a spatial attribute like the Energy Storage Crystals.
• Lin Tian recalled how the Broken Sword had bypassed his spear in the Dao Derivation Tower and suspected it was an offensive Spatial Spirit Treasure.
• Lin Tian sensed the powerful Martial Dao Will within the Broken Sword, and it suddenly shot toward him and collided with his own.

Lin Tian learned that the Broken Sword, named Void, was a Spatial Spirit Treasure and tested its ability to open a distant storage rift, but he could not decipher most of the Martial Dao Will’s fragmented information. Outside the Secret Realm, the Royal Court sent in a fifth group of talents while the Upper Sect Faction debated whether to send anyone to support Lin Tian.

• Lin Tian received fragmented information from the Martial Dao Will and learned that his broken sword was a battle-focused Spatial Spirit Treasure called Void.
• Lin Tian opened Void’s storage space at different locations, tested it with a crystal, and stored all his crystals inside.
• The Royal Court sent a fifth group of talents into the Secret Realm, bringing the total to nearly forty Gang Realm talents.
• Guerdo asked Guercha about the new talents’ landing positions, then watched the Upper Sect Faction’s camp and resolved not to let it gain an advantage.
• An elder and the Upper Sect Faction’s disciples asked Elder Zhou whether they would send support to Lin Tian, worried he would face the Royal Court talents alone.

Lin Tian confronted the first of three teams sent to surround and kill him, revealing true qi so powerful that it resembled a True Essence Realm expert’s true essence. He launched the burly Divine Shaman Royal Court attacker away, leaving the surrounding prodigies stunned.

• Elder Zhou refused to let the other disciples interfere with Lin Tian’s plan, despite another elder’s concerns.
• Lin Tian sensed the attackers forming an encirclement and rushed toward one team of a dozen or so figures.
• A burly Divine Shaman Royal Court expert attacked Lin Tian with a saber, but Lin Tian blocked the strike with one hand.
• The Royal Court prodigies attacked together, then hesitated when Lin Tian unleashed overwhelming primordial true qi.
• Lin Tian swung his spear and sent the burly attacker flying backward, apparently covered in blood.

Lin Tian overwhelmed the Royal Court geniuses pursuing him, but a Divine Shaman Royal Court genius used weather-control witchcraft to stop his attack and summon reinforcements. Elsewhere, the other Royal Court teams learned that Lin Tian was attacking their allies and headed toward the danger.

• Lin Tian killed several Royal Court geniuses with his spear as the rest tried to flee.
• Lin Tian targeted the rune-marked Divine Shaman Royal Court genius, who summoned black clouds and struck at him with lightning.
• The Divine Shaman Royal Court genius weakened after using his power, while a Divine Shepherd Royal Court genius sent flying insects to call for reinforcements.
• Lin Tian advanced on the regrouped Royal Court geniuses instead of stopping the insects from escaping.
• Two other Royal Court teams noticed the dark clouds, and a Divine Shepherd Royal Court genius warned their leader Batutian that Lin Tian was overwhelming the team ahead.

Lin Tian used the battered Royal Court geniuses as bait, nearly killing them when no reinforcements appeared. Several newcomers finally arrived and blocked his attack, but three of them struggled to withstand its power.

• Lin Tian held back as he repeatedly struck Gutaduo and the other Royal Court geniuses, keeping them alive as bait for reinforcements.
• Two Royal Court geniuses tried to flee by crushing their Tokens, but Lin Tian killed them with his spear.
• When the reinforcements failed to appear, Lin Tian launched a stronger attack intended to finish the remaining geniuses.
• Several figures arrived and blocked Lin Tian's attack, giving the battered geniuses a chance to escape.
• Three newcomers charged at Lin Tian's attack but were halted and barely managed to block it.

Lin Tian ambushed Batutian after killing the Royal Court prodigies sent to attack him. Batutian tried to use their clash to escape, but Lin Tian's spear left him badly injured and unable to flee.

• Batutian ordered the Royal Court prodigies to swarm Lin Tian while he turned to question Gutaduo and the others.
• Gutaduo and his companions crushed their Tokens in terror as Lin Tian struck Batutian from behind with his spear.
• Lin Tian killed every Royal Court prodigy Batutian had sent against him and charged Batutian again.
• Batutian blocked Lin Tian's next thrust but was gravely injured when he tried to use its force to retreat.
• Batutian realized he could not escape Lin Tian, and a voice called out, "Stop!"

Lin Tian annihilated another group of Royal Court geniuses, while the Royal Court’s newly arrived third team encountered the wounded Batutian. After Gutaduo escaped and reported Lin Tian’s overwhelming strength, Elder Guerdo realized Lin Tian could nearly match a True Essence Realm cultivator despite being in the Gang Realm.

• The Royal Court’s third team arrived between Lin Tian and Batutian, and Batutian secretly planned to use them as a shield so he could escape.
• Batutian hid what had happened from Atuotian, the third team’s leader, and checked that the earlier battle’s remains were out of sight.
• More than a dozen Royal Court Tokens shattered, shocking the elders and renewing the Upper Sect Faction’s hope of entering the Secret Realm safely.
• Gutaduo and the other wounded Royal Court geniuses crushed their Tokens and emerged from the Secret Realm, prompting Elder Guerdo to question them.
• Gutaduo described Lin Tian’s strength, and Guerdo concluded that Lin Tian was nearly as powerful as someone in the True Essence Realm.

Lin Tian’s defeat of the Royal Court geniuses left the elders and disciples stunned, while Elder Zhou and Yu Xiangtian recognized the resources his victories could bring the Dao Origin Sect. As the remaining disciples prepared to enter the Secret Realm, dazzling radiances suddenly poured out from within it.

• Batutian and Atuotian returned from the Secret Realm badly wounded, and the elders learned that nearly all the geniuses who had entered with them had died to Lin Tian.
• Elder Zhou and Yu Xiangtian realized Lin Tian’s victories could secure the Dao Origin Sect a massive share of the Secret Realm’s resources.
• The Upper Sect disciples were stunned by Lin Tian’s defeat of the Royal Court geniuses, and the True Disciple Candidates abandoned hopes of challenging him.
• Elder Zhou instructed the assembled disciples to enter the Secret Realm, and they headed toward the high platform.
• Dazzling radiances suddenly poured out from the Secret Realm as the disciples prepared to enter.

Lin Tian secretly collected another Secret Realm Origin Crystal without triggering the earlier disturbance, while He Qingwu led a Dao Origin Sect team to prioritize survival over gathering resources. She proposed seeking protection from Lin Tian, the only powerful figure able to shelter them in the Secret Realm.

• The Secret Realm briefly shone with pillars of light, but Yu Xiangtian found it safe for entry, and Elder Zhou ordered the disciples to proceed.
• The Upper Sect Faction and Royal Court Faction sent their disciples into the Secret Realm to compete for resources.
• Lin Tian used his Compass to locate and retrieve another Secret Realm Origin Crystal, this time without causing a disturbance.
• He Qingwu advised her team to gather only small resources and focus on surviving rather than contesting major resource sites.
• He Qingwu told the team that they should seek protection from Lin Tian, the only strong person who could shelter them.

He Qingwu and the Upper Sect disciples resolved to find Lin Tian for protection in the Secret Realm. The Royal Court geniuses argued over whether to target the Upper Sect or gather resources first, and Gushendu secured an agreement to delay attacks until they had collected enough resources.

• He Qingwu explained that the Royal Court feared Lin Tian alone and urged the Upper Sect disciples to find him and join forces.
• Royal Court disciples used Gu insects to gather quickly after entering the Secret Realm.
• A Divine Martial Royal Court genius and a Divine Shepherd Royal Court genius argued that the Royal Court should claim all the resources despite Lin Tian’s strength.
• Gushendu warned that Lin Tian had not revealed his full strength and urged the Royal Court to avoid needless risks.
• Gushendu conceded that the Royal Court could target the Upper Sect later, and the radicals agreed to gather resources first.