Recaps

Lin Yi finished trading at the Trade Gathering and received two Vermilion Fruits from the village chief in recognition of his capture of the Bluemane Horses. Back in his hut, he studied a new blood-transporting technique and examined the Sword Embryo as he planned to advance his cultivation.

• Lin Yi found no more valuable goods at the Trade Gathering and returned to the Bluestone Tribe’s stall.
• The Flamewaste Tribe’s guard commander traded Ferocious Beast meat and three Vermilion Fruits for the Bluestone Tribe’s remaining nine Bluemane Horses.
• The village chief gave Lin Yi two of the Vermilion Fruits, saying the horses were his catch and the tribe was already getting a bargain by keeping one.
• Lin Yi read the Mountain-Bearing Blood-Transporting Art and considered incorporating some of its methods into the Savage Bull Art.
• Lin Yi inspected the Sword Embryo, decided to study its incomplete Divine Markings later, and planned to comprehend the Lava Divine Markings that night.

Lin Yi comprehended the Lava Giant Ape Divine Marking and used it to create the Great Wilderness Divine-Pattern Record and Great Wilderness Art. As the village prepared to leave the Trade Gathering, he refused to join the Flamewaste Tribe and prepared to go home, unaware that Little Flame was hiding his sorrow.

• Lin Yi extracted blood-qi enhancement, spiritual-energy absorption, and a fire attribute from the Lava Giant Ape Divine Marking.
• Lin Yi combined the marking with his existing techniques, creating the layered Great Wilderness Divine-Pattern Record and the more efficient Great Wilderness Art.
• After emerging from contemplation, Lin Yi learned that the village would leave the Trade Gathering at daybreak the next morning.
• The village chief asked Lin Yi to join the Flamewaste Tribe, but Lin Yi refused and the chief accepted his decision.
• Lin Yi told Little Flame they were going home and began packing, while Little Flame's divine markings flickered and sorrow showed in his eyes.

Lin Yi cultivated with a Vermilion Fruit overnight, raising his strength to about 105,000 jin before Bluestone Tribe departed the Trade Gathering. When Lin Yi spotted bandits lying in ambush on their route, he and the village chief prepared to face them.

• Lin Yi refined the Vermilion Fruit's energy with the Great Wilderness Art and estimated that his strength had reached 105,000 jin.
• The village chief led Bluestone Tribe away from Flamewaste Tribe with their trade goods loaded onto a cart.
• Lin Yi used his Spirit Eyes to discover a band of more than a dozen ambushers, including a Dragonlike Realm leader and three Mountain-Sinking Realm fighters.
• Lin Yi warned the village chief, who insisted the tribe confront the bandits together.
• The bandit leader mocked Bluestone Tribe for leaving early, and Lin Yi joked that the leader had called the village chief smart.
• The village chief told Lin Yi to finish the fight quickly, and Lin Yi leaped down and activated the Great Wilderness Divine-Pattern Record.

Lin Yi revealed his Dragonlike Realm strength to kill the bandits, then traveled with the hunting team to a cave and began practicing sword movements. The chapter ended when Little Flame's Gilded Divine Markings flared and a strange voice announced it had found something.

• Lin Yi unleashed his Dragonlike Realm aura, killed the bandit leader and three Mountain-Sinking Realm fighters, and let Mang and the hunting team finish off the others.
• The village chief warned Lin Yi that surviving bandits could track them back to their tribe, and the group collected valuables before continuing onward.
• At the cave, Lin Yi worried over Little Flame's unusually long sleep, but the village chief found no immediate problem and said it was exhausted from sensing their surroundings.
• Lin Yi practiced basic sword movements outside the cave while Little Flame slept inside.
• Mang called Lin Yi back when Little Flame's crimson fur lit up and its Gilded Divine Markings flashed; as Lin Yi examined it with Spirit Eyes, a voice said, "Ah, I finally found it!"

Di Qing appeared in the cave and revealed that Little Flame belonged to the Mingdi Spirit Fox Clan, but agreed to let it stay with the Bluestone Tribe for one more day. He also recognized Lin Yi's awakened Divine Ability and left Lin Yi wary of his interest in his eyes.

• Di Qing appeared beside Little Flame, overwhelmed the cave with his pressure, and examined Lin Yi's Divine Markings and Spirit Eyes.
• Little Flame awakened, broke free from Di Qing, and stood protectively before Lin Yi and the Bluestone Tribe.
• Di Qing introduced himself and explained that Little Flame had awakened the bloodline of the Mingdi Spirit Fox Clan and needed to return to its clan.
• Little Flame asked to stay, and Di Qing agreed to leave with it the day after tomorrow.
• Di Qing warned Lin Yi that he wanted to dig out and study his eyes, and Lin Yi silently vowed to become stronger than him.

Lin Yi learned why Di Qing was fascinated by his Divine Ability, then returned to the Bluestone Tribe with the villagers. Di Qing departed with Little Flame, leaving Lin Yi a token whose purpose remained unknown.

• Lin Yi asked Di Qing why his human bloodline had awakened a Divine Ability, and Di Qing explained that such abilities normally belonged to powerful Ferocious Beasts and spirit beasts.
• Di Qing carried Lin Yi, the villagers, their horses, and their carts through the air back to the Bluestone Tribe.
• Lin Yi told Xiao Hu that Little Flame had to return to its own home, and Xiao Hu tearfully said goodbye.
• Di Qing departed with Little Flame and gave Lin Yi a golden token marked with the character "Qing."

After reaching the Blood-Qi Realm’s limit, Lin Yi prepared to enter the Spirit-Nurturing Realm and chose to open the dangerous Baihui Acupoint first. He successfully drilled through its barrier and felt spiritual energy enter his head.

• Lin Yi comforted Xiao Hu after the Trade Gathering and returned to his stone house to plan his training.
• Over the next half month, Lin Yi taught Biao and the hunting team the Savage Bull Art and Savage Bull Diagram while tempering his blood and qi to 150,000 jin.
• Lin Yi practiced eight basic sword movements and devised a temporary way to cover the Sword Embryo with Penetration Divine Markings using blood and qi.
• After reaching the Blood-Qi Realm limit, Lin Yi decided to open the Baihui Acupoint before the other Aperture Points.
• Lin Yi used a slowly rotating drill of blood and qi to pierce the Baihui Acupoint’s barrier and drew in spiritual energy.

Lin Yi broke through into the Spirit-Nurturing Realm after opening the Baihui, Shenting, and Shangxing Acupoints, despite his brain devouring most of the spiritual energy and power. His Spirit Eyes evolved, his strength reached 450,000 jin, and he discovered he could fly as he rose over Bluestone Tribe.

• Lin Yi opened the Baihui, Shenting, and Shangxing Acupoints, while his brain initially absorbed all the spiritual energy entering them.
• Lin Yi merged the three streams of spiritual energy with his blood-qi to form spiritual power, then let his brain consume most of it and break open the extreme point in his brain.
• Lin Yi's Platinum Divine Markings evolved, strengthening his Spirit Eyes by an entire level.
• Lin Yi replenished his spiritual power through the three opened Acupoints and found his strength had reached 450,000 jin.
• Lin Yi discovered he could fly, rose above Bluestone Tribe, and startled Mang and Biao.

After breaking through to the Spirit-Nurturing Realm, Lin Yi tested his new abilities and entered the Great Wilderness to hunt for Ferocious Beasts and Divine Markings. He recorded the markings on a Gu Diao, only to discover their effect was not what he had expected.

• Lin Yi celebrated his Spirit-Nurturing Realm breakthrough by flying over Bluestone Tribe, then tried to comprehend Little Flame's Gilded Divine Markings but decided the process would take too long.
• After opening five more Aperture Points overnight, Lin Yi ate at the village chief's home and announced he was heading into the Great Wilderness.
• Lin Yi flew to the Brown Bear Cave and found a Dragonlike Realm Gu Diao resting inside.
• Lin Yi recorded and comprehended the Divine Markings on the Gu Diao's wings within moments, then realized they did not increase flying speed as he had expected.

After comprehending Divine Markings from Gu Diao and Suanyu, Lin Yi hunted beasts in the Dark Forest and found that spiritual power might let him permanently inscribe Divine Markings onto weapons. The chapter ended with him considering whether spiritual qi was the key.

• Lin Yi comprehended Gu Diao’s Divine Markings, discovered they formed wings for gliding, and killed the beast that had occupied his cave.
• Lin Yi returned to the Dark Forest, used his Spirit Eyes to locate the thirteen Shadowmarked Spiders, and killed them with his Sword Embryo.
• Lin Yi hauled the spider Corpses back to his cave, where Suanyu attacked him from the sky.
• Lin Yi knocked Suanyu into a pit, comprehended its aerial-speed Divine Markings, and killed it.
• Over the next three days, Lin Yi hunted for Divine Markings, found several mostly useless ones, and strengthened the effects of his existing abilities.
• While using his Sword Embryo against a Ferocious Beast, Lin Yi discovered that spiritual power might let Divine Markings settle permanently into weapons.

Lin Yi permanently engraved Divine Markings into weapons using spiritual power, then told the village chief he wanted to leave the Bluestone Tribe and explore the wider world.

• Lin Yi returned to the Bluestone Tribe with several thousand jin of Ferocious Beast prey, and Biao and Mang agreed to handle it.
• Lin Yi permanently engraved the Penetration Divine Marking into his Sword Embryo and pierced through a piece of bluestone.
• Lin Yi demonstrated the technique to the village chief, who was shocked when the spear he engraved displayed a Divine Marking.
• Lin Yi engraved the Penetration Divine Marking into the Hunting Team's weapons while reflecting on his desire to grow stronger beyond the tribe.
• After sharing a quiet meal with the village chief, Lin Yi said he wanted to leave the tribe and go out into the world.

Lin Yi studied the Divine Markings in the Eye of Zheng, integrated their abilities into his techniques, and left Bluestone Tribe with the methods he had created for its people. While traveling through the Great Wilderness, he found a lake rich in spiritual energy and suspected its source lay beneath the water.

• Lin Yi told the village chief he would leave Bluestone Tribe the day after tomorrow and asked to study the Eye of Zheng.
• Lin Yi deciphered the relic’s Divine Markings, adding a divine-light attack to his Spirit Eyes and a will-suppressing aura to the Great Wilderness Divine-Pattern Record.
• The village chief and nearly the entire tribe gathered to see Lin Yi off, and Lin Yi gave the chief a scroll recording his cultivation methods and martial skills.
• Lin Yi flew away from Bluestone Tribe and traveled into the Great Wilderness.
• Lin Yi discovered a lake with unusually dense spiritual energy, found no source along its shores, and decided to search beneath the water.

Lin Yi found a spiritual energy crystal beneath an enormous skeleton at the bottom of a lake, then fought and killed the Water Jiao guarding it. He left the lake with the crystal and the Water Jiao’s corpse.

• Lin Yi dove into the lake, discovered he could breathe through spiritual power, and followed the increasing spiritual energy to the lakebed.
• Lin Yi found an enormous, brittle skeleton and uncovered a fist-sized crystal beneath its chest cavity.
• Lin Yi took the crystal, but the Water Jiao surfaced and attacked him after spotting it.
• Lin Yi dodged the Water Jiao’s lightning, struck it, and broke off its horn while fighting it in the water.
• Lin Yi used the horn to pierce the Water Jiao’s skull, killed it, and dragged its corpse to shore.

After defeating a Water Jiao, Lin Yi used its hide for clothing, ate its meat, and continued deeper into the Great Wilderness while cultivating. He knocked aside a flock of crows and fought a Giant Ape, then spotted a Beast Tide closing in from several directions.

• Lin Yi fashioned clothing from the Water Jiao's hide, roasted its meat, and used a Spiritual Energy Crystal to raise his total to eighteen opened Aperture Points.
• Lin Yi flew deeper into the Great Wilderness while cultivating and scouting with his Spirit Eyes.
• Lin Yi scattered a flock of nearly a hundred Dragonlike Realm crows with spiritual pressure and a punch.
• Lin Yi punched a Mid Spirit-Nurturing Realm Giant Ape into a mountainside.
• Lin Yi sensed countless Ferocious Beasts converging from the east, west, and south and recognized a Beast Tide.

Lin Yi swallowed the Spiritual Energy Crystal to stop its aura from drawing a Beast Tide, then escaped while the beasts turned on one another. After recording several powerful Divine Markings in the resulting battle, he began studying them in a cave but was interrupted by a hunting party seeking shelter.

• Lin Yi realized a Beast Tide was pursuing the Spiritual Energy Crystal, swallowed it, and escaped as the beasts lost their target and fought among themselves.
• Lin Yi observed the fighting beasts and recorded the Divine Markings of three powerful Spirit-Nurturing Realm beasts and numerous lower-ranked beasts.
• Lin Yi found a cave, made its black bear occupant move aside, and incorporated the lower-ranked Divine Markings into the Great Wilderness Divine-Pattern Record.
• Lin Yi prepared to study five Spirit-Nurturing Realm Divine Markings but sensed seven injured hunters approaching the cave.
• Lin Yi blocked the hunting party at the entrance with his aura and told them to find somewhere else.

Lin Yi confronted an injured group from the Glimmering Abyss Tribe, accepted their offer of a martial skill and dagger for shelter, then discovered the skill contained a harmful flaw. When the group challenged him, he attacked and killed six Dragonlike Realm fighters while leaving their leader and the Spirit-Nurturing Realm man gravely injured.

• The injured woman leading the Glimmering Abyss Tribe offered Lin Yi a martial skill and a Spirit Artifact dagger in exchange for shelter for one night.
• After the group entered the cave, the woman wrote out a fist technique, but Lin Yi identified its faulty-meridian trap and rejected it.
• The woman argued that she had not promised a particular grade of martial skill and warned Lin Yi that fighting might attract a High-Rank Ferocious Beast.
• Lin Yi struck the woman and hurled her into the cave wall, then seized the Spirit-Nurturing Realm man's arm, tore it off, and kicked him into the wall.
• The six Dragonlike Realm fighters charged Lin Yi, and he killed all of them with a single kick apiece.
• The wounded woman crawled from the crater as Lin Yi approached her and declared that it was her turn.

Lin Yi killed a wounded woman in a cave, then fought the perfect Spirit-Nurturing Realm Silvermoon Giant Wolf outside and wounded it before it fled. He escaped the battlefield and hid in a tree hollow to recover, planning to use the new Silvermoon Giant Wolf Divine Marking to strengthen his techniques while injured.

• Lin Yi killed the wounded woman, searched the corpses, and took several Spirit Artifacts and a map before a Silvermoon Giant Wolf appeared outside the cave.
• Lin Yi escaped the cave and clashed with the Silvermoon Giant Wolf, whose speed and strength overwhelmed him despite his Spirit Eyes and amplified power.
• While enduring the wolf’s attacks, Lin Yi integrated previously comprehended Divine Markings into the Great Wilderness Divine-Pattern Record and Flowing Light, Fleeting Shadow until his speed caught up.
• Lin Yi pierced the Silvermoon Giant Wolf’s abdomen with the Sword Embryo, and the wounded wolf fled when other Ferocious Beasts approached.
• Lin Yi fled the battlefield, knocked out a black panther occupying a tree hollow, and spent two hours treating his wounds.
• Lin Yi assessed his injuries and resolved to strengthen his cultivation techniques and martial skills while recovering, using the Silvermoon Giant Wolf Divine Marking he had gained.

Lin Yi recovered from his injuries and comprehended six Divine Marking diagrams, then used them to improve his cultivation and combat techniques. After studying a map taken from the Glimmering Abyss Tribe leader, he set off west to investigate its marked location.

• Lin Yi healed while comprehending six Divine Marking diagrams, finishing both tasks by the afternoon of the second day.
• Lin Yi optimized the Great Wilderness Art with the diagrams, doubling its spiritual-energy absorption and adding moonlight absorption that accelerated his comprehension at night.
• Lin Yi raised the amplification limit of the Great Wilderness Divine-Pattern Record and Flowing Light, Fleeting Shadow to fivefold, added a long-range slash to his Sword Embryo, and learned to release flames and lightning separately or as thunderfire.
• Lin Yi made crude shorts from the black panther hide and examined the beast-hide map he had taken from the female leader of the Glimmering Abyss Tribe hunting party.
• Lin Yi used the map and remembered landmarks to locate himself, then flew west toward its circled site.

Lin Yi found a cavern filled with Earth Marrow Milk and killed a worm that guarded it. He entered the pool to absorb its refined energy and heal hidden injuries.

• Lin Yi flew to the map’s marked coordinates and found a cavern filled with increasingly pure spiritual energy.
• Lin Yi discovered a pool of Earth Marrow Milk and used his Spirit Eyes to detect a concealed worm beneath it.
• The worm attacked Lin Yi, expanded into a giant form, and was killed by his amplified punch.
• Lin Yi confirmed the cavern was clear, entered the Earth Marrow Milk, and began absorbing its energy as it repaired his injuries.

Lin Yi absorbed the Earth Marrow Milk, broke through to the Mid Spirit-Nurturing Realm, and awakened Divine Sense along with a powerful new Spirit Eyes attack. He drained the cave’s supply and collapsed the passage to keep the Glimmering Abyss Tribe from harvesting it.

• Lin Yi opened eighty-nine Aperture Points in the Earth Marrow Milk, reaching the Mid Spirit-Nurturing Realm and gaining five-meter Divine Sense.
• Lin Yi’s Spirit Eyes absorbed the Eye of Zheng’s divine-light ability, letting him fire an attack that damaged both bodies and Divine Souls.
• Lin Yi’s physical strength rose from four hundred and fifty thousand jin to seven hundred and fifty thousand jin as he drained the Earth Marrow Milk.
• Lin Yi used the Great Wilderness Divine-Pattern Record to smash the cave walls and destroy the karst cave.
• Lin Yi escaped with Flowing Light, Fleeting Shadow as the cave entrance collapsed, sealing the passages behind him.

Lin Yi cultivated in the Great Wilderness and discovered that Moonlight Spiritual Energy slightly strengthened his Divine Sense. While he remained unaware, the Human Sovereign Trial began, and after dawn he spotted two Soul Extremity Realm beasts fighting over what looked like a token.

• Lin Yi abandoned the idea of searching for the Glimmering Abyss Tribe, continued recording Divine Markings, and settled in a cliffside tree hollow for the night.
• Lin Yi found that Moonlight Spiritual Energy helped condense his Divine Sense, which grew from five meters to a little over six.
• A fissure opened above the Great Wilderness, prompting powerful figures in the eight ancient human domains to announce the Human Sovereign Trial and send their juniors toward it.
• Lin Yi woke with an uneasy feeling but continued flying through the Great Wilderness and recording Divine Markings.
• Lin Yi spotted a Three-Eyed Giant Ape and a Rock-Armored Bear fighting at Soul Extremity Realm, then began recording their Divine Markings.
• Lin Yi noticed the beasts appeared to be fighting over an object radiating spiritual power and suspected it was a token.

Lin Yi waited for the Three-Eyed Giant Ape and Rock-Armored Bear to weaken each other, then killed the bear and escaped with both Soul Extremity Realm corpses and a strange token. He discovered the token was the Human Sovereign Token.

• The Three-Eyed Giant Ape and Rock-Armored Bear fought until the bear feigned defeat, then pinned the ape and crushed its skull.
• Lin Yi attacked the exhausted Rock-Armored Bear with divine light and repeated punches, killing it.
• As more than a dozen High-Rank Ferocious Beasts approached, Lin Yi seized the token, sealed the corpses' wounds, and fled carrying both beasts.
• Lin Yi hid with the corpses in a shallow cave and examined the dark metal token, finding the words “Human Sovereign” on its back.

Lin Yi absorbed the spiritual power on the Human Sovereign Token, which tested his bloodline and left him qualified for the Human Sovereign Trial. With the first stage beginning in ten days, he used the remaining energy to open more Aperture Points and began considering how to grow stronger quickly.

• Lin Yi absorbed the token’s spiritual power, which swept through and cleared his meridians before returning part of itself to the token.
• The Human Sovereign Token dissolved and sent a Divine Marking into Lin Yi’s mind, revealing the trial’s rules and confirming his eligibility.
• Lin Yi learned that the first stage would begin in ten days and that participants could only be challenged by people of their generation.
• Lin Yi refined the spiritual power left in his Dantian and raised his total to 153 opened Aperture Points.
• Lin Yi discovered he could hide and reveal the golden imprint, then turned his attention to getting stronger before the trial.

Lin Yi consumed the meat of two Soul Extremity Realm Ferocious Beasts, strengthened his cultivation techniques, and developed a new claw attack before finding the Great Wilderness strangely empty. Meanwhile, the Wang Household, Gu Chen, Crown Prince Qian Hao, and other heavenly geniuses entered the Great Wilderness to search for Human Emperor Tokens.

• Lin Yi ate the two Soul Extremity Realm Ferocious Beasts and opened thirteen more Aperture Points, bringing his total to 166.
• Lin Yi comprehended the beasts' Divine Markings, improved his techniques and Spirit Eyes, and created the Dread Claw attack.
• Lin Yi searched the Great Wilderness, found only three spirit fruits, and suspected the stronger Ferocious Beasts had fled deeper inside.
• The Wang Household's elder sent its younger generation into the Great Wilderness, where Wang Teng ordered them to split up and search for tokens.
• Gu Chen, Crown Prince Qian Hao, and heavenly geniuses from other factions also entered the Great Wilderness.

After the Great Wilderness filled with descending outsiders, Lin Yi subdued Ye Xing, took his storage ring and flying boat, and learned that the craft was far faster than his own flight. He left Ye Xing behind as the flying boat sped onward.

• Lin Yi saw powerful outsiders descending into the Great Wilderness, and Ye Xing landed nearby and called him a native.
• Ye Xing attacked Lin Yi, who caught his fist, threw him down, and beat him until he gave his name and loosened the ownership mark on his storage ring.
• Lin Yi took Ye Xing's storage ring and found it packed with Spirit Stones, Heavenly Treasures, herbs, and other materials.
• Ye Xing tried to flee on his flying boat and threatened Lin Yi with his parents' safeguards, but Lin Yi guessed they only activated when his life was in danger.
• Lin Yi took ownership of Ye Xing's flying boat and flew away, marveling that it was more than ten times faster than he could travel at full speed.