Recaps

Lin Qing confronted the three Myriad Stars Immortal Court members and effortlessly mocked and overpowered them while fighting off the pursuing insect swarm. As their furious leader summoned a massive Dharma Image, a blood-filled maw lunged at it from the forest.

• Lin Qing detected the three Myriad Stars Immortal Court members approaching and flew to intercept them with Yue Shu.
• The three tried to use concealment arts and draw the insects toward Lin Qing and Yue Shu, but Lin Qing anticipated their plan and cut them off.
• Lin Qing casually killed approaching insects, caught the lead man's blade between his fingers, and threw him back while taunting him.
• Lin Qing dodged another man's sword thrust and mocked his accuracy.
• The humiliated leader roared and summoned a Dharma Image, but a huge blood-filled maw suddenly shot toward it from the forest.

Lin Qing defeated the remaining members of the group that had confronted him, then traveled with Yue Shu out of the fissure. From the mountaintop, they saw the forest, distant water, and a vast city spread across the earth.

• A giant serpentine Divine Lord ambushed the arrogant man, badly injuring him before retreating, and Lin Qing mocked the man as he gave up fighting.
• The remaining man charged Lin Qing and was killed, and Lin Qing killed the woman after she begged to serve him.
• Yue Shu gathered the spoils, and Lin Qing and Yue Shu concealed themselves before carefully crossing the forest and killing beasts that detected them.
• After reaching the mountaintop, Lin Qing and Yue Shu realized their former valley was a fissure in the earth and saw a mountain range, a vast forest, distant water, and a sprawling city.

Lin Qing and Yue Shu traveled toward a colossal city through a secret realm filled with Half-Immortal demon beasts and other cultivators. Their journey left them facing a five-man team from the Myriad Stars Immortal Court, who demanded to inspect their Storage Rings.

• Lin Qing and Yue Shu spotted the distant city and learned from Yue Shu that the enormous demon beasts were suppressed Half-Immortals who could become True Immortals outside the secret realm.
• Lin Qing and Yue Shu proceeded cautiously through the jungle, killing the Twelfth Tier demon beasts that discovered them.
• Lin Qing and Yue Shu encountered increasing numbers of cultivators heading toward the city, including some who had been killed along the way.
• A five-man team from the Myriad Stars Immortal Court stopped Lin Qing and Yue Shu and demanded to inspect their Storage Rings.
• Lin Qing tossed identity tokens taken from three people he had killed at the team's feet and told them to take a look.

Lin Qing confronted a five-person team that insulted Yue Shu and attacked them with his saber. He severed the bald man's fingers and struck him with a Willpower-infused slash before blocking a surprise dagger attack.

• The bald man recognized Lin Qing's identity tokens but dismissed them and leered at Yue Shu, prompting Lin Qing to attack.
• Lin Qing's Drawn-Blade Slash forced all five opponents to evade or defend, and they drew their Life-Bound Treasures.
• The long-haired man turned invisible while the bald man challenged Lin Qing to fight alone, and Lin Qing warned Yue Shu to stay back.
• Lin Qing dodged the bald man's twin hammers and severed the fingers gripping one of them.
• Lin Qing struck the bald man across the crotch with a Willpower-infused slash, then blocked a dagger that appeared beside him.

Lin Qing fought off five members of the Myriad Stars Immortal Court while avoiding drawing Yue Shu into the battle. A Half-Immortal giant eagle seized the bald man, and Lin Qing then attacked the long-haired man, who claimed an Ancient Prodigy would protect him.

• Lin Qing wounded the bald man and forced the Myriad Stars Immortal Court group to attack him together.
• Lin Qing fought all five opponents as their injuries mounted and they began using spells.
• The bald man revealed a twelve-hundred-kilometer Dharma Image, attracting a giant eagle that seized him and flew away.
• Lin Qing retreated to Yue Shu, then used a slight amount of Burning the Boats and charged the long-haired man.
• The long-haired man pleaded for his life, saying he had an Ancient Prodigy behind him.

Lin Qing killed three members of the Myriad Stars Immortal Court team, learned that the Divine Sense Avatar belonged to Xu Bai, and left the area with Yue Shu. After detouring through forests and mountains, they reached the city gates.

• Lin Qing killed the long-haired man despite the appearance of Xu Bai's Divine Sense Avatar, then slapped the avatar and drove it away.
• The three surviving members of the Myriad Stars Immortal Court team split up, but Lin Qing killed the crew-cut man and captured his Primordial Spirit.
• The crew-cut man identified the avatar as Xu Bai, one of the Immortal Court's top three experts, before Lin Qing crushed his Primordial Spirit.
• Lin Qing gathered the spoils and left stealthily with Yue Shu, intending to avoid the dangerous marshes and waterways.
• After five or six days of travel through forests and mountains, Lin Qing and Yue Shu reached the city gates.

Lin Qing and his companion entered a vast city in the secret realm, where native inhabitants openly told outsiders about several supposed paths to immortality. Wary of how freely the opportunities were advertised, Lin Qing waited to see what happened, then went to watch as cultivators prepared to challenge the Trial Tower.

• Lin Qing and his companion reached the enormous city and learned from a gate guard that he could be considered a native inhabitant.
• They explored the city, paid for a meal with Spirit Stones, and overheard cultivators speculate about the city's origins.
• A waiter told Lin Qing that reaching the top of the central Trial Tower, winning one hundred arena matches, and other challenges could lead to immortality.
• Lin Qing doubted the easy availability of these opportunities, so he and his companion stayed at an inn while more outsiders arrived.
• Some cultivators decided to challenge the Trial Tower, and Lin Qing went to watch.

Lin Qing and the other cultivators gathered at the Trial Tower, where a challenger discovered that passing its trials increased his strength. The crowd rushed to enter, and the chapter ended with the tower displaying a different challenger without anyone noticing.

• Cultivators from across the secret realm gathered around the Trial Tower in the center of the city.
• A bare-chested man entered the tower and defeated an Early Twelfth Tier rhinoceros in the first challenge.
• After completing the early challenges, the bare-chested man sensed that his strength had increased.
• Cultivators rushed to enter the tower, and some fought over its entrances until they learned the entrances remained open.
• The tower's outer wall lit up with screens of the many challengers, while the first man's screen quietly switched to someone else.

Lin Qing watched the Trial Tower claim cultivators while those who survived reported brutal, uneven stages that improved their strength but left lasting injuries. Yue Shu entered and returned badly wounded, as the city's cultivators continued risking their lives at the tower and other rumored opportunities; the martial arena remained the main gathering place for powerful outsiders.

• After several days, the first cultivator emerged from the Trial Tower badly injured and reported that its stages grew unpredictably harder, with injuries persisting outside.
• More cultivators returned wounded, while many others died inside chasing stronger opponents and the rumored Immortal Ascension Opportunity; the bare-chested man never came back.
• Yue Shu entered the Trial Tower despite Lin Qing's concerns, failed to clear it, and returned with injuries that would take months to heal.
• Cultivators continued cycling through the Trial Tower and other dangerous opportunity sites, while disciples of great powers and Ancient Prodigies gathered at the western martial arena to fight familiar opponents.

Lin Qing entered the Martial Arena seeking Xu Bai and found a cruel nine-win fighter to challenge. After defeating him and dribbling his severed head around the arena, Lin Qing was seen by Xu Bai as he arrived.

• Lin Qing searched the Martial Arena for Xu Bai but did not find him, then heard rumors of a disguised demonic cultivator killing people near the city gate.
• Lin Qing chose a nine-win fighter who had tortured his previous opponent by playing with the man's severed head.
• Lin Qing blocked the fighter's sword and cut off his head, then sealed it and played with it while the fighter begged for mercy.
• Xu Bai entered the Martial Arena with several people and saw Lin Qing dribbling the severed head.

Lin Qing defeated an opponent in the Martial Arena, then watched Xu Bai arrive and challenge fighters while building a ten-match win streak before facing him. Lin Qing left to investigate why no one had found an Immortal Ascension Opportunity and asked Yue Shu about opportunities from previous openings of the Secret Realm.

• Lin Qing killed his opponent in the Martial Arena, and Xu Bai rushed in but bounced off the arena barrier.
• After learning the arena required a ten-match win streak, Xu Bai vowed to challenge Lin Qing and began fighting on an empty arena.
• Lin Qing waited for an hour, then left for Tingfeng Ferry and questioned why no one had found an Immortal Ascension Opportunity.
• Lin Qing visited the injured Yue Shu and asked her about Immortal Ascension Opportunities from earlier openings of the Secret Realm.
• Yue Shu said the opportunities changed with each opening and agreed to tell Lin Qing what she knew about the previous one.

Lin Qing waited at the Martial Arena to challenge Xu Bai, then faced the Ancient Prodigy in a fierce battle. Lin Qing broke Xu Bai’s Life-Bound Treasure with his Destruction Will, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Yue Shu described several man-made Immortal Ascension Opportunities in the city, and Lin Qing suspected that staying there would be dangerous.
• Lin Qing returned to the Martial Arena and waited for Xu Bai while Xu Bai earned his tenth victory by forcing opponents into battles.
• Xu Bai challenged Lin Qing, and the two entered the arena with Xu Bai wielding a folding fan and Lin Qing drawing his Embroidered Spring Saber.
• Xu Bai attacked with perfected Wind Will and Illusion Will, but Lin Qing countered the illusions with lightning and met Xu Bai’s Killing Intent with Destruction Will.
• Lin Qing closed in and struck Xu Bai’s folding fan, shattering the Life-Bound Treasure and blasting Xu Bai backward.

Lin Qing killed Xu Bai after learning that Xu Bai's household had an Immortal King ancestor, then left the Martial Arena as the Myriad Stars Immortal Court prepared to respond. He and Yue Shu hurried to leave the city, but the guards stopped them at the gate.

• Lin Qing defeated and killed Xu Bai, who revealed that his household's founding ancestor was an Immortal King.
• The crowd erupted after Xu Bai's death, and a nervous Myriad Stars Immortal Court disciple failed to stop Lin Qing from leaving the Martial Arena.
• Lin Qing returned to the inn and told Yue Shu to pack because the Myriad Stars Immortal Court would hunt him.
• Lin Qing and Yue Shu reached the city gate without encountering trouble, but the guards stopped them from leaving.

Lin Qing and Yue Shu left the city after suspecting its Immortal Ascension Opportunities were part of a scheme, but the black-robed figures made the opportunities easier to obtain just after they departed. As they headed toward the eastern mountains, Feng Wu ambushed them and seized Yue Shu, leaving Lin Qing to wound him and stand between them.

• Lin Qing and Yue Shu left the city, and the gate captain reported their departure to the black-robed figures underground.
• The black-robed figures decided to make the Immortal Ascension Opportunities easier to obtain so fewer outsiders would leave.
• A prodigy succeeded in the Trial Tower, and Lin Qing and Yue Shu regretted missing the opportunity before continuing east.
• Feng Wu ambushed them, seized Yue Shu, and used his Divine Sense to immobilize her.
• Lin Qing recognized Feng Wu with Primordial Insight, activated Burning the Boats, and severed Feng Wu's left arm with the Embroidered Spring Saber.

Lin Qing learned from Feng Wu about the Power Limit and suspected the city was hiding a plot, then left with Yue Shu to investigate the wilderness. After a month of travel, Lin Qing found signs of human activity deep inside a narrow mountain crevice.

• Feng Wu explained the Power Limit after recognizing that Lin Qing was far stronger than an Eleventh Tier cultivator should be.
• Feng Wu proposed that he and Lin Qing join forces if trouble arose, but Lin Qing left with Yue Shu without committing.
• Lin Qing and Yue Shu traveled away from the city, and Lin Qing settled several encounters with ease.
• After a month in the mountains, Lin Qing discovered traces of native inhabitants deep inside a narrow crack in a rock wall.
• Lin Qing called to Yue Shu and suggested they enter the crevice to investigate.

Lin Qing and Yue Shu found a group guarding the Heavenly Origin Divine Spring, an Immortal Ascension Opportunity, and took the remaining drops from them. Lin Qing swallowed one drop and gave the bottle to Yue Shu, asking her to look after his friends when they returned to the academy.

• Lin Qing and Yue Shu entered a concealed underground chamber after hearing a sister and brother talking beyond a Divine Sense Shielding Formation.
• Lin Qing revealed himself to five cultivators, and the strongest among them tried to seize him but was quickly overpowered.
• Lin Qing learned that the chamber’s recessed stone platform was used to collect the Heavenly Origin Divine Spring, which could help someone ascend to immortality.
• The woman guarding the spring handed Lin Qing a jade bottle containing about ten drops, and he swallowed one after sensing its Five-Element aura.
• Lin Qing tossed the remaining spring to Yue Shu and asked her to look after his friends when they returned to the academy.

Yue Shu used the Heavenly Origin Divine Spring to complete Five Qi Returning to the Origin in the Secret Realm, leaving her on the verge of becoming an immortal once she escaped. Lin Qing realized he had no use for an Immortal Ascension Opportunity and decided his only remaining goal was to get himself killed inside the Secret Realm.

• Yue Shu swore to protect Lin Qing's two friends at the academy, and Lin Qing urged her to attempt her breakthrough in the Secret Realm.
• Yue Shu drank all nine remaining drops of the Heavenly Origin Divine Spring and cultivated for five days.
• Yue Shu achieved Five Qi Returning to the Origin, but the Secret Realm stopped her breakthrough before she could become an immortal.
• Yue Shu thanked Lin Qing, while he reflected that perfecting his Five-Element Will had not brought him close to the strength of a Half-Immortal.
• Lin Qing concluded he did not need an Immortal Ascension Opportunity and decided to get himself killed inside the Secret Realm.

Lin Qing forced a group of natives to explain why they had collected the Heavenly Origin Divine Spring and what their city was doing to outside cultivators. He learned the natives planned to use the city as a magical artifact to preserve their people when the Secret Realm opened, and he showed little concern as long as their struggle did not affect him.

• The woman tried to kill her four companions to keep the natives' purpose secret, but Lin Qing stopped her and seized the Eleventh Tier man.
• The woman agreed to talk so Lin Qing would not search her younger brother's soul.
• She explained that the natives' ancestors stayed in the Secret Realm after defeating the Myriad Stars Immortal Court and fearing its revenge.
• The woman revealed that the city gathered the bodies and spiritual energy of fallen cultivators so the natives could survive inside it and leave when the exit opened.
• Lin Qing dismissed the natives' plan as no earth-shaking conspiracy and said he did not care which side prevailed if it did not affect him.

After enough cultivators died seeking Immortal Ascension Opportunities, the native Half-Immortals decided they had gathered the flesh-and-blood energy needed to protect their city for three years and moved to end the killings. Before they could retrieve their missing kin, the Myriad Stars Immortal Court found their hidden chamber and arrived to avenge its humiliation from eighty thousand years ago.

• More than fifty cultivators obtained Immortal Ascension Opportunities, and over twenty became Half-Immortals after refining them.
• The black-robed natives reached the required amount of flesh-and-blood energy and agreed to stop sending cultivators to their deaths for more.
• A native Half-Immortal set out to retrieve Xuan'er and the others, who had been told to hide near the passage.
• More than a dozen white-robed Half-Immortals entered the chamber, having found it through soul searches and a Formation Disk.
• The newcomers identified themselves as members of the Myriad Stars Immortal Court, and the black-robed natives realized the court had come to avenge its defeat eighty thousand years earlier.

After learning that the Myriad Stars Immortal Court was massacring the city’s inhabitants, Lin Qing struggled with his instinct to remain indifferent. Yue Shu urged him to follow his true feelings, and he began cultivating the Five-Element Will so he could take control of the battle.

• Xuan'er received a call from her father warning her and her brother to hide because the Myriad Stars Immortal Court would not let them leave the Secret Realm.
• Xuan'er and her companions left to reach the city, and Lin Qing and Yue Shu followed behind them.
• Lin Qing saw the Myriad Stars Immortal Court’s disciples slaughtering the city’s inhabitants while Xuan'er and her companions fought to protect them.
• Yue Shu told Lin Qing to follow his true feelings and flew into the battle.
• Lin Qing sat on the city wall and began contemplating the completed Five-Element Will, determined to grow strong enough to control the fight.

The Immortal Ascension Opportunity drew nearly every outsider away from the city, leaving the native Half-Immortals outnumbered when the fighting resumed. Lin Qing then completed the Five-Element Law and disabled everyone’s ability to use their spiritual energy, once again becoming invincible within the Secret Realm.

• Five-Colored Radiance announced the Immortal Ascension Opportunity, and outsiders rushed toward it, abandoning the battle in the city.
• Feng Wu remained behind after reaching the Half-Immortal realm, while Lin Qing and Yue Shu went unnoticed near the city wall.
• Lin Hao called on the watching Half-Immortals to help the Myriad Stars Immortal Court, and they joined the fight against the natives.
• The Myriad Stars Immortal Court’s reinforcements overwhelmed the native Divine Lords and gravely wounded several native Half-Immortals.
• Lin Qing rose from the city wall after completing the Five-Element Law, and everyone in the Secret Realm lost the ability to call upon their spiritual energy.

Lin Qing arrived to help the native Half-Immortals and used the Five-Element Law to seal the Myriad Stars Immortal Court forces’ spiritual energy. Feng Wu revealed himself as a Half-Immortal, broke free of Lin Qing’s seal, and attacked Lin Hao’s group while Lin Qing watched.

• The Half-Immortals recognized Lin Qing as the one who had killed Xu Bai and realized he wielded the power of Law.
• Lin Hao offered to let the matter of Xu Bai go, but Lin Qing refused to let the Myriad Stars Immortal Court forces leave.
• Feng Wu dropped his disguise, revealed his Half-Immortal cultivation, and approached Lin Hao pretending to offer help.
• Feng Wu crushed Lin Hao’s head, then killed another member of the group and began absorbing his essence, energy, and spirit.
• Feng Wu broke free of Lin Qing’s spiritual energy seal, a move Lin Qing had anticipated.

Lin Qing and Feng Wu slaughtered the native Half-Immortals, and Lin Qing secretly sent Yue Shu away before leaving the city with Feng Wu. The two prepared to fight in a secluded mountain range, where Lin Qing revealed his greatly enlarged Dharma Aspect.

• Feng Wu used a Secret Art and began absorbing the Half-Immortals while Lin Qing sent the natives to prepare the city for concealment.
• Lin Qing and Feng Wu killed the remaining Half-Immortals, then Lin Qing used Voice Transmission to tell Yue Shu to leave and hide until the Secret Realm's exit opened.
• Yue Shu learned that Lin Qing planned to fake his death and leave the academy, then departed without being noticed.
• Lin Qing and Feng Wu flew away from the city and discussed Lin Qing's unknown true form, with Feng Wu guessing he might be a Starry Sky Behemoth.
• Lin Qing chose a secluded spot behind a mountain range and summoned his Dharma Aspect, which stood five thousand kilometers tall.

Lin Qing fought Feng Wu, whose Secret Art let him absorb and return Lin Qing’s attacks, eventually forcing Lin Qing onto the defensive. Lin Qing prepared to use his newly acquired Divine Ability, Unwavering Until Death.

• Lin Qing and Feng Wu traded barehanded blows, and Lin Qing’s superior fighting technique sent Feng Wu flying after more than a hundred moves.
• Feng Wu unleashed his Secret Art to its full power, raising his Dharma Image to six thousand kilometers and pushing his strength beyond the Half-Immortal Power Limit.
• Lin Qing used the Five-Element Law to attack Feng Wu, but Feng Wu absorbed the attacks and returned them at Lin Qing.
• Feng Wu’s greater raw power let him overpower Lin Qing in close combat and send him flying.
• Lin Qing revealed that Burning the Boats had disappeared from his Mastered Wills and that Unwavering Until Death had appeared among his Divine Abilities.

Lin Qing used his newly refined Burning the Boats and a physical attack to bypass Feng Wu’s ability to absorb spells, willpower, and Divine Sense. After hours of battering Feng Wu’s body, Lin Qing destroyed his Primordial Spirit and wondered whether Feng Wu’s bizarre power was a divine ability.

• Lin Qing realized he could use Burning the Boats alongside Selfless Oblivion and chose to fight Feng Wu with pure physical strength.
• Feng Wu attacked Lin Qing with his massive palm, but Lin Qing struck back and forced Feng Wu to retreat.
• Lin Qing shattered Feng Wu’s body with repeated punches, then kept attacking as Feng Wu tried to recover.
• After Feng Wu’s energy ran low, he lamented his fate, and Lin Qing killed him with a punch to his Primordial Spirit.
• Lin Qing looked at Feng Wu’s body and wondered whether his strange ability had been a divine ability.