Recaps

Lin Yi took control of Ye Xing’s flying vessel, studied its Divine Markings, and cultivated with the treasures in Ye Xing’s storage ring. After three days, Ye Xing found a Human Sovereign Token, where two Soul Extremity Realm fighters were battling nearby.

• Lin Yi examined the flying vessel’s Divine Markings and had Ye Xing explain the cultivation realms and the vessel’s speed.
• Ye Xing agreed to pilot the vessel and search for a Human Sovereign Token after Lin Yi refused to let him leave empty-handed.
• Lin Yi inventoried Ye Xing’s storage ring, put on a defensive outfit, and cultivated while recording the vessel’s Divine Markings.
• After three days, Ye Xing called Lin Yi out and reported that he had found a token.
• Lin Yi saw the token lodged in a cliff fissure beside two Soul Extremity Realm fighters, who stopped attacking when his flying vessel approached.

Lin Yi defeated two Soul Extremity Realm cultivators and claimed a token, then used their cultivation arts to upgrade the Great Wilderness Art. The chapter ended when Ye Xing urgently called him about a One Dao Realm genius.

• Lin Yi used his Spirit Eyes to exploit gaps in two Soul Extremity Realm cultivators’ techniques, defeated them, and took their token.
• Lin Yi recorded the pair’s saber and whip cultivation arts, then returned to the flying boat with Ye Xing.
• Lin Yi discovered the token’s spiritual power could only be absorbed once and stored it away.
• Lin Yi combined the two cultivation arts with the Great Wilderness Art, raising its meridian utilization to seventy percent and nearly tripling its refinement efficiency.
• Ye Xing urgently called Lin Yi to report a One Dao Realm genius.

Lin Yi watched Wang Teng and Gu Chen fight over a Human Sovereign Token, then recorded their cultivation arts and martial techniques. After Gu Chen won the token, Lin Yi returned to the lounge to study what he had learned before the Human Sovereign Trial.

• Lin Yi and Ye Xing saw Wang Teng and Gu Chen confront each other over a Human Sovereign Token, and Ye Xing identified them as renowned prodigies from different ancient domains.
• Wang Teng and Gu Chen fought in the sky while Lin Yi used his Spirit Eyes to record their cultivation arts and martial techniques.
• Gu Chen's Sword Apex split Wang Teng's Tribulation Fist and struck his chest, prompting Wang Teng to concede the token.
• Gu Chen claimed the token and departed, while the spectators dispersed.
• Lin Yi told Ye Xing to alert him if another battle between prodigies occurred, then returned to the lounge to study the techniques he had recorded.

Lin Yi rebuilt the Great Wilderness Art around his meridians and advanced his studies while traveling through the trial. After learning that high-level cultivation arts required Dao Scriptures, he headed with Ye Xing to the Wang Household to sell their Human Sovereign Tokens.

• Lin Yi found that his records of Wang Teng's and Gu Chen's cultivation arts lacked their Dao Scriptures, then adapted their meridian principles into a more efficient Great Wilderness Art.
• Over three days, Lin Yi refined his new cultivation art, studied Tribulation Fist and Sword Apex, recorded the flying boat's Divine Markings, and examined Little Flame's Illuminated Truth Divine Markings.
• Lin Yi opened all 361 main Aperture Points and stabilized at the Perfect Spirit-Nurturing Realm, but realized his physical body had not caught up with his spiritual power.
• Lin Yi collected five Human Sovereign Tokens from battles and gave one to Ye Xing before deciding to sell the rest at the Wang Household's camp.
• Ye Xing explained that cultivation arts and martial techniques above the Nirvana Realm had corresponding Dao Scriptures, and the flying boat arrived near the Wang Household's gathering place.

Lin Yi traded five Human Sovereign Tokens to Wang Teng for three Imperial Dao Realm techniques, then focused on mastering the Sky Roc Traversing Step before the trial. The Human Sovereign Mark announced that the first stage would begin in an hour, and Lin Yi told Ye Xing he already knew.

• Lin Yi and Ye Xing entered the Wang Household camp and met Wang Teng, who exchanged three high-tier techniques for Lin Yi's five Human Sovereign Tokens.
• Lin Yi examined the cultivation method and fist technique, then focused on comprehending the Sky Roc Traversing Step because the trial was near.
• Lin Yi practiced the movement technique and found it granted great speed at the cost of nearly a tenth of his spiritual energy per use.
• Lin Yi received a message from his Human Sovereign Mark that the first stage would begin in an hour and participants would be sent to the Human Sovereign Realm.
• Lin Yi left the resting room and told Ye Xing that he knew the trial was about to begin.

Lin Yi entered the Human Sovereign Realm, where participants had to seize each other’s seals while the realm shrank toward its center. After defeating the saber-wielding youth and taking his seal, Lin Yi continued toward the center and came upon Gan Hao fighting another participant.

• Lin Yi arrived in the Human Sovereign Realm and learned that defeated participants would be eliminated, the realm would shrink over five days, and only ten people could win.
• Lin Yi found the saber-wielding youth hiding behind a boulder and defeated him, taking his Human Sovereign Seal.
• Lin Yi briefly sensed the Imperial Law profundity from the fused seals but failed to comprehend it before it faded.
• Lin Yi headed toward the center and saw Gan Hao overpowering another participant, who shouted at Gan Hao for fighting him to the death.

Gan Hao killed Qian Ling and claimed the Human Sovereign Mark, then fought Lin Yi to a standstill. As both men unleashed their full Blood-Qi powers and prepared to clash again, an unknown voice interrupted them.

• Gan Hao overpowered Qian Ling’s Blood-Burning Secret Art and blasted him to the ground.
• Qian Ling begged Gan Hao to spare him and offered the Human Sovereign Mark, but Gan Hao killed him and absorbed the mark.
• Gan Hao noticed Lin Yi watching, and Lin Yi stepped out and challenged him.
• Lin Yi and Gan Hao exchanged more than twenty close-quarters attacks without either gaining the advantage.
• Gan Hao manifested a dragon phantom, while Lin Yi summoned Ferocious Beast phantoms with his Divine Markings.
• A voice interrupted as Lin Yi and Gan Hao prepared to strike at their limits.

Lin Yi encountered Gan Hao and Xuan Mi, then hunted contestants to gather Human Sovereign Seals and comprehended the Blood-Qi Realm portion of the Human Emperor's Prison-Suppressing Scripture. He continued searching for seals until an angry curse sounded nearby.

• Xuan Mi intervened between Lin Yi and Gan Hao, and Gan Hao agreed to leave if the monk endured one punch.
• Xuan Mi withstood Gan Hao's blow without retreating, so Gan Hao departed and challenged Lin Yi to meet him in the core region.
• Lin Yi used his Spirit Eyes to record parts of both men's cultivation techniques, then began searching for seals along a spiral route toward the center.
• Over three days, Lin Yi defeated seventy-three contestants and fused their Human Sovereign Seals.
• Lin Yi comprehended the Blood-Qi Realm portion of the Human Emperor's Prison-Suppressing Scripture, which awakened the body's sealed source points.
• Lin Yi prepared to continue hunting when an angry curse rang out in the distance.

Lin Yi rescued Ye Xing from the contestant chasing him, then gathered more Human Sovereign Marks as the trial area shrank. He reached the central arena beneath the Human Sovereign Cauldron, where five powerful contestants had gathered, and introduced himself to Gan Hao.

• Ye Xing ran to Lin Yi for protection, and Lin Yi knocked out his pursuer and took the man's Human Sovereign Mark.
• Ye Xing explained that he had accidentally punched his pursuer in a sensitive spot while attempting a sneak attack, prompting Lin Yi to scold him before they continued together.
• Lin Yi and Ye Xing collected another fifty Human Sovereign Marks over the next two days as the trial regions contracted.
• Lin Yi and Ye Xing reached the core area and saw the massive bronze cauldron that Ye Xing identified as the Human Sovereign's Dao-proving imperial artifact.
• Lin Yi stepped onto the arena, sensed the eight negative emotions stirred by the black-cloaked contestant, and suppressed them with the Great Wilderness Art.
• Gan Hao challenged Lin Yi to state his name, and Lin Yi introduced himself as Lin Yi of the Great Wilderness Ancient Domain.

As the Human Sovereign Realm arena shrank, Lin Yi exposed Chu Lianxi’s enchanting cultivation art and joined the core-area melee. After the contestants cleared out the weaker fighters, eight powerful competitors remained, and Gan Hao declared that the real battle was about to begin.

• Chu Lianxi introduced herself and Jiang Shuhan, and Lin Yi used his Spirit Eyes to identify Chu Lianxi’s enchanting cultivation art after it caused Ye Xing and Lin Yi to lose composure.
• The Human Sovereign Realm shrank to the arena, and the contestants learned the rules for the core-area melee and the final top-ten contest.
• Gan Hao, Lin Yi, and the other powerful contestants attacked the weaker fighters, while Lin Yi observed the black-robed man’s and Chu Lianxi’s methods.
• Lin Yi knocked the final weaker contestant off the arena, leaving ten people; Ye Xing then voluntarily conceded, reducing the group to nine.
• Lin Yi faced Gu Chen, Wang Teng, Gan Hao, Xuan Mi, the black-robed man, Chu Lianxi, and Jiang Shuhan as Gan Hao announced the start of the real battle.

Lin Yi and Gan Hao fought a brutal, escalating battle in the arena while the other contestants faced off around them. Lin Yi finally defeated Gan Hao, who admitted defeat and immediately healed himself with a pill.

• Lin Yi unleashed his strengthened Great Wilderness Divine-Pattern Record and clashed with Gan Hao as Wang Teng fought Gu Chen, Jiang Shuhan faced Ye Qing, and Chu Lianxi tested Xuan Mi.
• Gan Hao’s Dragon Art accelerated his qi and manifested three dragon images, and Lin Yi copied its operation into his technique before answering with Wrath of Myriad Beasts.
• Gan Hao and Lin Yi traded reckless blows until both were badly injured, and the other fighters stopped to watch their battle.
• Gan Hao’s final punch missed after Lin Yi’s body dodged by a fraction, allowing Lin Yi to strike Gan Hao’s abdomen and knock him into the rubble.
• Gan Hao admitted that he had lost, then swallowed a medicinal pill that rapidly healed his injuries and restored his strength, leaving Lin Yi cursing in disbelief.

Lin Yi recovered with Gan Hao’s Nirvana Pill and joined the expanding eight-person melee. Chu Lianxi, Ye Qing, and Wang Teng were eliminated, while their Human Sovereign Marks strengthened Gan Hao, Lin Yi, and Gu Chen.

• Gan Hao gave Lin Yi his last Nirvana Pill, and Lin Yi used it to recover from his injuries and restore his strength.
• Chu Lianxi’s seductive arts briefly affected Xuan Mi, but he resisted and countered with his Great Compassion Palm as their fight continued.
• Gan Hao, Lin Yi, Gu Chen, and Wang Teng turned their separate duels into an eight-person melee that spread across the arena.
• Gan Hao knocked Chu Lianxi out of the arena and absorbed half of her Human Sovereign Mark.
• Ye Qing unleashed demonic qi that stirred the others’ inner evils, but Lin Yi resisted, knocked Ye Qing out, and absorbed half of his mark.
• Wang Teng succumbed to his resentment and charged Gu Chen, who struck him out of the arena and absorbed half of his mark.

Lin Yi, Gan Hao, Jiang Shuhan, Gu Chen, and Xuan Mi unleashed their final attacks, leaving all five wounded and nearly out of blood and qi. Lin Yi eliminated Jiang Shuhan and gained another Human Sovereign Mark, leaving him and Gu Chen as the final two contenders.

• Lin Yi, Gan Hao, Jiang Shuhan, Gu Chen, and Xuan Mi collided in a decisive clash that shattered the arena and left them all badly injured.
• Xuan Mi defeated Gan Hao and sent him beyond the arena, after which Xuan Mi also stepped down.
• Lin Yi recovered with Heavenly Treasures while Gu Chen and Jiang Shuhan used medicinal pills, and Jiang Shuhan regained her peak combat aura with a trace of blood and qi.
• Lin Yi challenged both remaining opponents, then struck Jiang Shuhan's sword attack with his fist and knocked her off the arena.
• Jiang Shuhan's half Human Sovereign Mark merged into Lin Yi's mark, giving him a fuller vision of the Human Sovereign's punch.
• Gu Chen and Lin Yi faced each other as the last two contenders and prepared to decide the victor.

Lin Yi defeated Gu Chen in the Human Sovereign Trial after awakening source points and pushing his body beyond its limits. He won first place, received the complete Human Emperor's Prison-Suppressing Scripture, and returned to the Great Wilderness, where Ye Xing celebrated his victory.

• Lin Yi awakened ten source points during his battle with Gu Chen, gaining enough pure physical strength to catch Gu Chen's punch and strike him back.
• Gu Chen comprehended sword intent and injured Lin Yi, but Lin Yi awakened more source points and knocked him out with a headbutt.
• Gu Chen conceded defeat and gave Lin Yi half of his Human Sovereign Mark, which fused with Lin Yi's mark.
• A golden phantom restored the top ten, lifted the seal on their spiritual power, and transmitted passages of the Human Emperor's Prison-Suppressing Scripture according to their marks.
• The phantom announced Lin Yi as first place, Gu Chen as second, and Jiang Shuhan as third, then said the next trial would begin in one hundred years.
• Gan Hao gave Lin Yi a communication token before Lin Yi teleported back to the Great Wilderness, where Ye Xing excitedly congratulated him.

Lin Yi agreed to let Ye Xing travel with him, then declined Gan Hao’s offer to help him claim the Great Gan Dynasty throne. He began seclusion aboard his flying boat while Ye Xing stayed outside to guard him.

• Lin Yi agreed to let Ye Xing follow him after learning Ye Xing had no guardian or flying boat.
• Gan Hao invited Lin Yi to help him ascend the Great Gan Dynasty throne, but Lin Yi refused and chose to remain independent.
• Lin Yi reviewed the cultivation techniques and other tasks he planned to work on during seclusion.
• Lin Yi released his flying boat and entered seclusion, leaving Ye Xing to stand guard outside.

Lin Yi spent thirteen days cultivating, awakening all 10,000 Origin Points and perfecting the Spirit-Nurturing Chapter, while Ye Xing weathered a Beast Tide in the flying vessel. Lin Yi then enhanced his Spirit Eyes with Little Flame’s Gilded Divine Markings and prepared to study the flying vessel’s Extreme-Speed Divine Markings and the techniques from Wang Teng.

• Lin Yi consumed his remaining cultivation resources, integrated the Eight Domains’ cultivation arts and combat techniques, and cultivated in seclusion for thirteen days.
• Ye Xing spotted a Beast Tide rushing out from the core region and took refuge aboard the flying vessel, whose saint-grade defensive markings withstood the beasts’ attacks.
• Lin Yi awakened his 10,000th Origin Point, perfected the Spirit-Nurturing Chapter, and completed his integration of the Eight Domains’ arts and combat techniques.
• Lin Yi fused Little Flame’s Gilded Divine Markings into his Spirit Eyes, which absorbed them and gained Illumination Insight, Life Sense, and Unerring Insight.
• Lin Yi planned to study the flying vessel’s Extreme-Speed Divine Markings and the cultivation arts and combat techniques he had obtained from Wang Teng.

Lin Yi completed Desolate Fist and created the mid holy-tier movement martial art Great Dao's Carefree Song during seclusion. After Ye Xing told him that a massive beast tide had fled the core area, Lin Yi flew there to investigate and seek cultivation resources.

• Lin Yi opened all the hidden apertures in his body, increasing his spiritual qi absorption speed threefold, and finished comprehending Wanjun Boxing.
• Lin Yi combined Wanjun Boxing with several other techniques to create Desolate Fist.
• Lin Yi integrated the holy-tier Extreme-Speed Divine Marking and Sky Roc Traversing Step into Flowing Light, Fleeting Shadow, renaming the finished movement art Great Dao's Carefree Song.
• Lin Yi tested his new movement art and found Ye Xing watching the area below the flying boat; Ye Xing told him a beast tide of high-rank ferocious beasts had fled the core area.
• Lin Yi decided to investigate the core area for the cause of the beast tide and for cultivation resources, then flew toward the trail of destruction.

Lin Yi and Ye Xing reached the scorched core region, where Lin Yi discovered a Kui Ox killed by Heavenly Tribulation while it carried a mysterious decayed aura. After collecting the beast corpses and having Ye Xing roast the Kui Ox’s legs, they pondered what the aura might be as another bolt of lightning appeared.

• Lin Yi found the core region charred and littered with powerful Ferocious Beast Corpses, including a one-legged Kui Ox still wrapped in lightning.
• Lin Yi discovered that Heavenly Tribulation lightning had pursued and destroyed a decayed aura inside the Kui Ox, killing it in the process.
• Lin Yi cut off the Kui Ox’s hind legs for Ye Xing to roast and stored the rest of its body.
• Lin Yi collected more than twenty One Dao Realm Ferocious Beast Corpses that bore traces of tribulation lightning and decay.
• As Lin Yi and Ye Xing sat by the campfire, Ye Xing trembled and asked if the Heavenly Tribulation Lin Yi had mentioned was the lightning before them.

Lin Yi and Ye Xing escaped a Heavenly Tribulation that struck the ground where the Kui Ox's Corpse had lain, then returned to investigate what it had destroyed. At the bottom of the pit, Lin Yi found and stored a strange bronze plate that Ye Xing thought resembled a coffin lid, and they continued downward.

• Lin Yi grabbed Ye Xing and fled as a Heavenly Tribulation unleashed destructive lightning into the ground beneath them.
• After reaching safety, Lin Yi ate the Kui Ox leg, then took Ye Xing back toward the strike site despite his protests.
• Lin Yi found a deep pit where the lightning had erased the dense decaying aura and spotted something embedded in its depths.
• Lin Yi pulled a heavy bronze plate from the pit wall and stored it after Ye Xing said it looked like a coffin lid.
• Lin Yi led Ye Xing farther down into the pit.

Lin Yi and Ye Xing discovered a mysterious woman in a bronze coffin, and she asked them to escort her to a destination in exchange for an Emperor Scripture and an imperial-tier martial technique. The woman gave Lin Yi the Qilin Origin Imperial Scripture and coordinates, then sealed the ruin inside her scroll as they prepared to travel together.

• Ye Xing spotted a woman in the coffin, and Lin Yi confirmed she had appeared there despite his earlier Spirit Eyes scan.
• The woman froze the space around them with her scroll, then asked what era and year it was.
• After Ye Xing answered, the woman offered Lin Yi a deal: take her to coordinates in exchange for a reward, while warning that her presence would attract misfortune.
• Lin Yi negotiated for an Emperor Scripture and an imperial-tier martial technique, and the woman agreed to both.
• The woman gave Lin Yi the Qilin Origin Imperial Scripture and coordinates, then used her scroll to absorb the ruin and coffin.
• Ye Xing asked whether they really had to escort the woman, and Lin Yi warned that refusing could get him killed.

After Heaven’s Annoyance caused a pit to collapse, Lin Yi and Ye Xing prepared to deliver the Qilin Origin Imperial Scripture to the red-robed woman in the Ten Thousand Races Battlefield. They set off for the Primordial Beginning Ancient Domain, the first step of a long journey that would require teleportation arrays.

• The pit collapsed as Lin Yi and Ye Xing escaped, and they blamed the disaster on Heaven’s Annoyance.
• Lin Yi copied the Qilin Origin Imperial Scripture into Ye Xing and ordered him to help deliver it.
• Lin Yi found that the Heavenly Tribulation had driven away the ferocious beasts, ruining his plan to carve their divine markings.
• Ye Xing identified the red-robed woman’s coordinates as being in the Ten Thousand Races Battlefield and explained the journey would cross eight ancient domains.
• Lin Yi and Ye Xing flew toward the Primordial Beginning Ancient Domain, which they expected to reach in about three days.

Lin Yi comprehended the Qilin Origin Imperial Scripture, broke through to the Soul Extremity Realm, and evolved his Spirit Eyes while in seclusion aboard the Flying Boat. He emerged as the vessel reached its first life-bearing ancient star and learned that Ye Xing had endured repeated meteor strikes and fourteen days without rest.

• Lin Yi studied the Qilin Origin Imperial Scripture and strengthened his foundation by thirty percent.
• Lin Yi opened his Sea of Consciousness, formed a Divine Soul, and expanded his Divine Sense to a five-kilometer range.
• Lin Yi absorbed moonlight and Stellar Origin to complete his Spirit Eyes’ evolution, greatly enhancing their abilities.
• After fourteen days of seclusion, Lin Yi emerged as the Flying Boat reached a pale green life-bearing ancient star.
• Ye Xing told Lin Yi that meteors had struck the Flying Boat 113 times and that he had gone fourteen days without rest, then asked whether Lin Yi’s conscience hurt.

Lin Yi and Ye Xing landed on a remote ancient star and found its city far poorer than Lin Yi had imagined. After selling one Ferocious Beast Corpse and learning there was no teleportation array nearby, they got a star map to Cangxuan Ancient Star and planned to browse the market before setting out.

• Lin Yi and Ye Xing entered the city through its gate and found its streets, buildings, and cultivators humble and rundown.
• Lin Yi sold one One Dao Realm Ferocious Beast Corpse to a shopkeeper for nine thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones, but the shopkeeper could not afford to buy the others.
• The shopkeeper told Lin Yi there was no teleportation array on the ancient star and gave him a star map showing the route to Cangxuan Ancient Star, along with ten thousand low-grade spirit stones.
• Lin Yi examined the low-grade spirit stones, then read the star map and learned the flight would take about twenty days.
• Lin Yi told Ye Xing they would look for bargains in the city before deciding whether to leave for Cangxuan Ancient Star.

Lin Yi and Ye Xing were pursued by a Starry Sky Beast and swallowed along with their Flying Boat. Trapped in its stomach, Lin Yi discovered the beast had Divine Markings with possible devouring abilities and began to see their predicament as a potential opportunity.

• Lin Yi and Ye Xing left an ancient star after finding no worthwhile spirit herbs, and Lin Yi resumed cultivating and refining the Great Wilderness Art aboard the Flying Boat.
• Ye Xing warned Lin Yi that a Starry Sky Beast was chasing them and that their Flying Boat could not outrun it with their current spiritual energy.
• Lin Yi and Ye Xing poured their spiritual energy into the Flying Boat, but the beast's devouring force pulled it into its mouth.
• Lin Yi and Ye Xing found themselves inside the Starry Sky Beast's stomach, where Lin Yi noticed Divine Markings on its flesh and deduced they might have devouring abilities.

Lin Yi integrated the Starry Sky Beast’s Devouring Divine Markings into the Great Wilderness Art, gaining the ability to absorb spiritual energy from cultivators and ores. He and Ye Xing collected Star Marrow Ores and Moon Marrow Ores inside the beast’s stomach as it continued feeding, joking that they looked like parasites.

• Lin Yi comprehended the Starry Sky Beast’s Devouring Divine Markings and integrated them into the Great Wilderness Art, nearly doubling his spiritual energy absorption speed.
• Lin Yi tested his new devouring ability on Ye Xing, draining his spiritual energy briefly before stopping and giving him a pouch of Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• The Starry Sky Beast fed and dropped Star Marrow Ores and Moon Marrow Ores into its stomach, and Lin Yi discovered he could use the Great Wilderness Art to devour their spiritual energy.
• Lin Yi and Ye Xing stored the ores as the Starry Sky Beast continued swallowing more, leaving it puzzled by its lack of fullness.
• Ye Xing remarked that they looked like parasites inside the beast, and Lin Yi told him to shut up.