Recaps

Lin Qing received special access to cultivation resources and asked the sect leaders to gather high-tier pill formulas and craft methods for him. After spending five days with Yun Nian, Shen Yurong, and the others in Cloudrise City, he was summoned to the sect's main hall because the requested materials had been gathered.

• Elder He told Lin Qing that he could obtain resources for his cultivation without contribution points and offered to help him find pill formulas and craft materials.
• Lin Qing exchanged the Demon Court disciples' corpses for contribution points and kept various herbs, ores, and other materials from his spoils.
• The sect master asked Lin Qing to list the formulas and methods he wanted, and Lin Qing requested high-tier materials that were inexpensive and easy to gather.
• Lin Qing returned to Sunset Glow Valley's street in Cloudrise City, where Shen Yurong had advanced to Sixth Tier while Yun Nian and the others continued cultivating.
• After five days, the sect master summoned Lin Qing to the main hall and told him the requested materials had been gathered.

Lin Qing left a gathering with Clear-Fate Sect representatives, collected supplies, and entered the Trial Tower to begin secluded cultivation. He reached the hundredth floor, where he started refining his cultivation and skills, while those outside remained unaware of how far he had climbed.

• Lin Qing greeted Mu Yao and Elder Nian Ci but left the main hall after receiving a Storage Ring from the sect master.
• Lin Qing gathered cultivation materials, selected a Sixth Tier technique for Shen Yurong, and prepared Visualization Diagrams for Yun Nian and the others.
• Lin Qing climbed past the floors where Qing Yao's and Juechenzi's names were carved, reaching the hundredth floor.
• Lin Qing found that the Spirit-Gathering Formation accelerated Spirit Core condensation but did not activate it, so others could not tell which floor he had reached.
• Lin Qing sat on a new meditation cushion and began secluded cultivation with the materials he had gathered.

After reaching the Eighth Tier, Lin Qing left seclusion when Qing Yao summoned him to prepare for a journey to the Central Continent. With the trip approaching, he arranged support for Sunset Glow Valley while he was away.

• Lin Qing broke through to the Eighth Tier Unity Realm after half a year of cultivation in the Trial Tower.
• Qing Yao told Lin Qing that their group would leave for the Central Continent in five days, joining cultivators from the Crossing River Sword Sect and the Clear-Fate Sect to travel across the sea toward a secret realm.
• Lin Qing learned that Ling Shu had also reached the Eighth Tier and become one of the Cloud Hermits.
• Lin Qing recorded three more Eighth Tier techniques and worried about Sunset Glow Valley's safety while he was away.
• Lin Qing asked Ling Shu's group to protect the people of Sunset Glow Valley, exchanged Communication Tokens with them, and gave them cultivation resources.

Lin Qing and the Cloudrise Immortal Sect’s volunteers traveled north to Sea-Gazing City to join the expedition to the Central Continent. While they waited for the Crossing River Sword Sect and Clear-Fate Sect, Lin Qing explored the city with Ling Shu and Qing Yao.

• Lin Qing told Lin Qing to seek his help if trouble arose and asked him to visit before leaving.
• Qing Yao warned the volunteers about the dangers and powerful cultivators they might encounter, then led them north aboard the sect’s Flying Vessel.
• The group reached Sea-Gazing City, where Qing Yao told them to make their own arrangements and return before noon the next day.
• Ling Shu invited Lin Qing to explore the city, and Lin Qing invited Qing Yao to join them.
• Lin Qing, Ling Shu, and Qing Yao sampled food as they wandered through Sea-Gazing City, then entered a tavern where Qing Yao ordered three jars of Azure-Wave Brew.

Qing Yao and Lin Qing dominated a drinking contest in Sea-Gazing City, then joined the other sects aboard the Crossing River Sword Sect’s Tenth Tier Flying Vessel for the journey to the Central Continent. The three sects began traveling together, with Yun Feng explaining why his sect had brought so many disciples.

• Qing Yao challenged the tavern patrons to a drinking contest and defeated the bearded man and every challenger who followed.
• Lin Qing joined the contest, and he and Qing Yao were still drinking when midnight came; Ling Shu collapsed after drinking more than a hundred jars.
• Lin Qing paid the tavern owner two hundred thousand Spirit Stones, then walked with Qing Yao toward the shore while Ling Shu followed under spiritual energy.
• The Cloud Hermits gathered aboard their Flying Vessel as vessels from the Crossing River Sword Sect and Clear-Fate Sect arrived, and the groups agreed to travel together aboard the Crossing River Sword Sect’s Tenth Tier Flying Vessel.
• Fei Luo teased Yun Feng about bringing so many disciples, and he said they had eagerly volunteered to explore secret realms in the Central Continent.

Lin Qing perfected all his Eighth Tier cultivation arts while traveling aboard the Crossing River Sword Sect's Flying Vessel, triggering a powerful Five-Element phenomenon. He gained the Origin Spirit Body talent and comprehended Five-Element Will, though its progress remained unexplained.

• Fei Luo introduced Lin Qing to Mu Yao and Xue Ling, prompting Ling Shu to step forward and introduce herself as well.
• The three sects' disciples were assigned rooms aboard the Flying Vessel, which then set off north across the sea.
• Lin Qing declined Qing Yao's invitation to join a gathering and began secluded cultivation to perfect his Eighth Tier arts.
• Seven days into the voyage, Lin Qing perfected his final Eighth Tier art, drawing a huge surge of spiritual energy into his room as Qing Yao blocked Yun Feng and Fei Luo from viewing him with Divine Sense.
• Lin Qing dreamed of passing through the five regions of the elements, then awoke as the World Core's power surged through him and the system recorded his Origin Spirit Body and Five-Element Will.

After a strange spiritual-energy disturbance drew attention aboard the Flying Vessel, Lin Qing worked with Qing Yao to conceal its connection to him by claiming he was refining a magical treasure. A month later, he completed a teleportation robe and demonstrated it to the watching Divine Realm experts, leaving Qing Yao curious about its name.

• Qing Yao warned Lin Qing that the disturbance around his room had attracted attention, and he asked her to keep the matter concealed while he refined a magical treasure.
• Qing Yao told the Cloudrise Immortal Sect disciples that Lin Qing was refining a magical treasure and confined the disturbance’s explanation to them.
• Lin Qing spent a month raising his artifact-refining skill to Eighth-Tier Perfection while Qing Yao concealed the sounds from his room.
• Lin Qing crafted a silver robe from the Void Beast’s fur and embedded formations, including two Ninth Tier teleportation formations.
• Lin Qing activated the robe to teleport into Qing Yao’s room, convincing Yun Feng and Fei Luo that the earlier anomaly came from his artifact.
• Qing Yao admired Lin Qing’s robe and asked what it was called.

Lin Qing asked Qing Yao how to advance to the Divine Realm and learned that cultivators had to transform their divine sense into a Primordial Spirit through Visualization Arts. He realized he needed more advanced Visualization Arts and began collecting them from the Eighth Tier disciples aboard the ship.

• Qing Yao named Lin Qing's silver-white teleporting spirit Yaoshuang.
• Qing Yao explained that advancing to the Divine Realm required Spirit Transformation, achieved by visualizing until divine sense formed an independent Primordial Spirit.
• Qing Yao warned that Spirit Transformation gave no feedback and could take centuries, citing Juechenzi's long effort to reach the Divine Realm.
• Lin Qing concluded that his existing Visualization Arts were insufficient and decided to collect higher-level ones from the Eighth Tier geniuses traveling with them.
• After Lin Qing and Qing Yao drank for two days, Lin Qing helped Shu Ning examine her Visualization Art while Qing Yao went looking for wine.

Lin Qing and the others were caught in a vast storm of Wind Will that overwhelmed even the Divine Realm experts and scattered the disciples. As Qing Yao’s group was swept around the vortex, Lin Qing gained a perfected Natural Visualization Method and awakened the talent Selfless Oblivion.

• Lin Qing helped disciples exchange Visualization Diagrams that suited them better, while old disciples sought his guidance.
• Qing Yao, Yun Feng, and Fei Luo sensed danger as the Flying Vessel slowed before an immense approaching storm, and they ordered everyone to abandon ship.
• Yun Feng put away the Flying Vessel, but the storm tore apart the disciples’ hand-linked formation and separated the three Divine Realm experts.
• Qing Yao held Lin Qing, Ling Shu, and Shu Ning together and used Wind Will to protect them as the group was swept through the storm.
• Lin Qing watched the storm until his spirit relaxed, and the system perfected a new Natural Visualization Method and revealed the talent Selfless Oblivion.

After the storm scattered Qing Yao’s group, she sent Lin Qing toward the Secret Realm while she searched for the missing Cloud Hermits. A month into his voyage with Ling Shu and Shu Ning, Lin Qing spotted Xue Ling fighting two disciples of the Darknight Demon Court and turned to help her.

• Qing Yao decided to search for the missing Cloud Hermits and insisted Lin Qing continue to the Secret Realm with Ling Shu and Shu Ning.
• Lin Qing refined the Ninth-Tier Flying Boat, and Qing Yao gave him Spirit Swords containing strikes at her full strength before he departed.
• After Lin Qing left, Qing Yao contacted Juechenzi, explained what had happened, and promised to try to bring everyone to the Secret Realm in time.
• A month later, Lin Qing spotted Xue Ling fighting two injured Darknight Demon Court disciples on a small island.
• Lin Qing steered the Flying Boat toward the island to intervene.

Lin Qing arrived on the desolate island just as Xue Ling was about to kill herself, then defeated Minghun and intervened when the island began to rise. He discovered that the island was actually a colossal turtle ten thousand li wide.

• Xue Ling prepared to destroy her body rather than submit to Minghun and join the Darknight Demon Court.
• Lin Qing appeared above Xue Ling, Minghun, and the other Demon Seed, stopping Xue Ling and confronting her attackers.
• Minghun attacked Lin Qing with Blade Qi and the Heaven-Sundering Draw Technique, but Lin Qing's spiritual-energy palm dissolved both attacks and crippled him.
• Lin Qing used his Five-Element Will Domain to stop the lower-cultivated Demon Seed from killing himself, then the island began to tremble and rise.
• Lin Qing grabbed Xue Ling and flew upward, killing both Demon Seeds as the ground pursued them.
• Lin Qing's divine sense revealed that the apparent island was a colossal turtle ten thousand li wide.

Lin Qing met Old Turtle, a million-year-old demonic beast who had awakened after sensing Lin Qing’s Five-Element Will. Old Turtle asked Lin Qing to help heal an injury caused by the World Origin, and Lin Qing agreed to try as they reached the wound in Old Turtle’s neck.

• Old Turtle appeared before Lin Qing and asked whether he had used the Five-Element Will.
• Old Turtle healed Xue Ling with Life power, and she flew to Lin Qing’s Flying Vessel to join Ling Shu and Shu Ning.
• Old Turtle told Lin Qing that the World Origin had injured it fifty thousand years earlier and that it had slept to ease the pain.
• Lin Qing explained the World Origin to Old Turtle and agreed to try to heal its injury.
• Old Turtle led Lin Qing to its neck and exposed the enormous blood vessel containing the wound.

Lin Qing entered Old Turtle’s body and removed the Five-Element Will trapped in his heart after using it to advance his own Willpower. Old Turtle rewarded him with spiritual materials and a Divine Sense Mark, and Lin Qing prepared to leave to search for Qing Yao and her disciples.

• Old Turtle brought Lin Qing through a blood vessel to the sphere of Five-Element Will lodged in his heart.
• Lin Qing spent more than ten days studying the sphere, raising his Five-Element Will progress by nearly two hundred points.
• Lin Qing used his Divine Sense to guide the sphere out of Old Turtle’s body and carried it far away, where it dissipated.
• Old Turtle thanked Lin Qing with hundreds of spiritual materials and a turtle shell bearing his Divine Sense Mark.
• Lin Qing asked Old Turtle to locate people wearing the same clothes as those aboard his flying boat, and Old Turtle sent him information about their whereabouts.
• Lin Qing took his leave from Old Turtle.

Lin Qing used Old Turtle’s search to help Qing Yao locate and rescue disciples scattered by the storm, while concealing Old Turtle’s identity. After the search ended with several disciples still missing, the group continued north, and Lin Qing began secluded cultivation.

• Lin Qing returned to the Flying Vessel and used the Divine Sense Mark on his ring to summon Qing Yao.
• Lin Qing sent Qing Yao Old Turtle’s locations for more than thirty groups of scattered disciples and warned her not to investigate the powerful senior who had found them.
• Qing Yao caught up with the Flying Vessel in three days, and the group rescued disciples for the next half month.
• Qing Yao found additional Clear-Fate Sect and Darknight Demon Court disciples; they rescued the former, while Lin Qing killed the latter.
• The group ended the search with around forty disciples aboard and nearly ten still unaccounted for, then headed north as Lin Qing began secluded cultivation.

After arriving at the Central Continent, Lin Qing learned that Juechenzi’s soul lamp had dimmed and his master was in grave trouble. Qing Yao urged Lin Qing to enter the secret realm and grow stronger before trying to rescue him.

• Qing Yao sensed the Central Continent nearby and contacted Juechenzi, but received no response.
• Lin Qing completed his docking duties after the Flying Vessel reached a coastal city, then learned Juechenzi’s soul lamp had dimmed greatly.
• Qing Yao explained that Juechenzi had come to the Central Continent to seek a complete Eleventh-Tier cultivation art.
• Lin Qing feared Juechenzi had been trapped or imprisoned and asked what they should do.
• Qing Yao told Lin Qing to enter the secret realm and train, since he was not yet strong enough to help Juechenzi.

Qing Yao left to investigate Juechenzi’s disappearance, entrusting Lin Qing with the sect’s disciples and the latest plans for entering the Kunxu Secret Realm. As Lin Qing’s group traveled through a border city to reach a Teleportation Array, a local Eighth Tier cultivator insulted them and became enraged when someone approached him.

• Yun Feng and Fei Luo arrived with news that Central Continent’s superpowers would restrict the Kunxu Secret Realm to cultivators of Eighth Tier or above who were under two hundred years old, and require them to obtain passes.
• Qing Yao told Lin Qing she would search for Juechenzi, left the disciples and Flying Vessel in his care, and warned him that an Eleventh Tier senior would arrive in about a month.
• Qing Yao explained Juechenzi’s disappearance to Yun Feng and Fei Luo before departing, and the group headed through a coastal city to take a Teleportation Array.
• A sharp-faced local Eighth Tier cultivator mocked the Eastern Profound visitors and boasted that the city’s rules prevented Divine Realm cultivators from attacking him.
• Lin Qing looked to Yun Feng for approval, and a silver-white figure stepped in front of the taunting cultivator, who angrily demanded that the visitor leave.

Lin Qing punished a local cultivator who insulted him, then killed him despite Wang Xiao’s attempt to intervene. After learning that Wang Xiao was a ranked genius from Qianyuan Heavenly Palace, Lin Qing heard him threaten to tear off his ears.

• Lin Qing slapped the sharp-faced man after he insulted him, and the man tried to turn the dispute into a locals-versus-outsiders conflict.
• Lin Qing pulled the man toward him and knocked down the local cultivators who rushed to attack, while telling his Eastern Profound companions not to interfere.
• Wang Xiao arrived and tried to stop Lin Qing with a flying sword, but Lin Qing dodged and split the sharp-faced man apart.
• Lin Qing recognized Wang Xiao as a Qianyuan Heavenly Palace true disciple listed on the Central Continent Young Masters Ranking.
• Wang Xiao threatened to tear off Lin Qing’s ears, and Lin Qing reacted with surprise that there was more.

Lin Qing effortlessly defeated Wang Xiao and tore off his ear and part of his face, prompting a Divine Realm expert to intervene. Yun Feng blocked the expert’s pressure, and Lin Qing returned to his group as the standoff continued.

• Wang Xiao attacked Lin Qing with spiritual energy and a longsword, but Lin Qing shattered the sword with two fingers and pinned him down with spiritual-energy pressure.
• Lin Qing tore off Wang Xiao’s right ear and more than half of the right side of his face, shocking the onlookers.
• A stationed Divine Realm expert intervened and demanded an explanation, but Yun Feng’s Sword Intent pushed back the expert’s consciousness pressure.
• Lin Qing tossed the torn piece of Wang Xiao’s face back to him and returned to the group while Yun Feng maintained his readiness to fight.

Lin Qing and his companions resolved the confrontation with Qianyuan Heavenly Palace’s law enforcer and continued to Azure Abyss City, where they sought lodging before the secret realm tests. A maid from the Li Family offered them accommodations, and Fei Luo pointed out that the group came from Eastern Profound.

• The Divine Realm expert condemned the sharp-mouthed man and Wang Xiao, then had Wang Xiao taken away and withdrew his will.
• Yun Feng and Fei Luo asked Lin Qing to protect their sects’ disciples in the secret realm, and Lin Qing agreed to help when he could.
• The group traveled by Teleportation Array to Azure Abyss City, where crowds had gathered for secret realm qualifications and to see young prodigies.
• Fei Luo suggested finding lodging, and the group walked through the city because the testing plaza was crowded.
• A maid representing the Li Family offered the group a place to stay, and Fei Luo replied that they were from Eastern Profound.

Li Yaqing invited Lin Qing and his companions to the Li Family estate, hoping they could help with a recent crisis. At the banquet, she learned Lin Qing was a young talent from the Cloudrise Immortal Sect and became hopeful that his group could help the Lineage.

• Li Yaqing offered Lin Qing and his companions early testing slots and invited them to visit the Li Family.
• Lin Qing agreed to go with the group, and Li Yaqing led them in carriages to the Li Family estate.
• Li Chong'an welcomed the group to a banquet, but the Li Family did not explain its troubles.
• Li Yaqing toasted Lin Qing and learned he was not a Divine Realm expert but a young talent from the Cloudrise Immortal Sect.
• Lin Qing introduced Yun Feng and Fei Luo as seniors from the Crossing River Sword Sect and the Clear-Fate Sect, and Li Yaqing hoped they could resolve the Lineage's crisis.

Lin Qing obtained a token to enter the Kunxu Secret Realm and learned that Li Yaqing needed help resisting Zhou Yichen’s demand to take her as a concubine. Li Yaqing offered an ancestral map of the Kunxu Immortal Sect as she explained the sect’s destruction.

• Lin Qing observed the age test, passed the secret realm’s entry tests, and obtained a token.
• Li Yaqing told Lin Qing that Zhou Yichen had demanded to take her as his concubine, and Lin Qing learned that the Zhou Family had two Tenth-Tier Mid-Stage Divine Realm experts.
• Yun Feng said they could handle the Zhou Family but that the Li Family’s offer was not enough to justify their help.
• Li Yaqing explained that the Kunxu Immortal Sect had fallen after a Heavenly Tribulation and a subsequent siege.
• Li Yaqing showed Lin Qing a map of the Kunxu Secret Realm drawn from memory by her ancestor, a former outer disciple of the sect.

Lin Qing accepted Li Yaqing’s offer to help him find information about the Kunxu Secret Realm, hoping its Heavenly Tribulation might point to a rare material for his Life-Bound Treasure. As he prepared for the secret realm, Zhou Yichen arrived at the Li Family estate, and Lin Qing went to meet him.

• Lin Qing agreed to Li Yaqing’s deal and received her memorized map of the Kunxu Secret Realm.
• Li Yaqing told Lin Qing that Zhou Yichen abused and killed his concubines and forced himself on young women.
• Lin Qing bought Ninth-Tier arrays and began training to raise his array mastery before the secret realm opened.
• A maid summoned Lin Qing to the main hall, where Zhou Yichen and a Ninth-Tier cultivator were waiting.
• The Ninth-Tier cultivator sensed Lin Qing’s Divine Sense and loudly ordered him to come forward, so Lin Qing headed to the main hall.

Lin Qing crippled Zhou Yichen after he insulted Lin Qing and threatened Ling Shu and Xue Ling, then arranged for Zhou Yichen to be publicly tormented. Zhou Yichen’s attendant fled with him after he passed out, and Fei Luo confronted Lin Qing about his ruthlessness.

• Zhou Yichen insulted Lin Qing and threatened him unless he handed over Ling Shu and Xue Ling.
• Lin Qing swiftly crippled Zhou Yichen and threw him into a crater in the street.
• Lin Qing offered Spirit Stones to men willing to torment Zhou Yichen, while the crowd watched and Zhou Yichen begged for mercy.
• The men tormented Zhou Yichen until dusk, when Lin Qing stopped them after Zhou Yichen passed out.
• Fei Luo released her suppression of Zhou Yichen’s attendant, who fled with him, then told Lin Qing he was ruthless.

The Zhou Family planned a forceful reprisal after Zhou Yichen was crippled and humiliated, while Lin Qing waited at the Li Family estate for their attack. As the Zhou Family arrived, Fei Luo and Yun Feng confronted their Tenth-Tier experts.

• Zhou Fentian ordered the Zhou Family to march on the Li Family at dawn and summoned his father and Second Uncle to help fight the Tenth-Tier experts.
• Zhou Fentian’s white-haired father rushed out after learning Zhou Yichen had been crippled and demanded to know who had harmed him.
• Lin Qing waited in the Li Family courtyard, then rose to face the Zhou Family party when they called him out at sunrise.
• Fei Luo released her Tenth-Tier pressure and challenged the Zhou Family cultivators for targeting Lin Qing.
• Two Tenth-Tier experts appeared in the clouds, and Yun Feng arrived with his sword intent before telling Fei Luo to protect Lin Qing while he fought them.

Yun Feng overwhelmed the Zhou Family’s two Tenth Tier cultivators, forcing Zhou Fentian to plead for a halt before they were killed. As Yun Feng’s enormous Dharma Aspect faced their two smaller ones, a powerful figure from a superpower intervened and offered to guarantee the Zhou Family’s promises.

• Zhou Fentian asked the Wang Lineage’s head to summon a senior, but the Wang Lineage’s head urged him to withdraw rather than risk retaliation from two Late Tenth Tier experts.
• Yun Feng attacked the Zhou Family’s two cultivators in the sky, shattered their defenses, and wounded them both with a single Sword Qi.
• The two Zhou Family cultivators summoned their Earth and Wind Dharma Aspects, and Yun Feng formed a Dharma Aspect nearly twice their size.
• Zhou Fentian shouted for Yun Feng to stop and offered to pay any price the Zhou Family could afford.
• A figure from a superpower asked Yun Feng to stop and promised to hold the Zhou Family to its word.