Recaps

Lin Yu tracked down the cultivators hidden beneath the military camp and killed all eight by poisoning them and fighting through their spirit array. He returned to question Zhang Shuai, then entered the mist again and heard a voice demanding to know who he was.

• Lin Yu trained with the soldiers to learn more about the people close to Bing Sheng.
• Lin Yu threatened Zhang Shuai, who revealed that cultivators were hiding beneath the military camp.
• Lin Yu poisoned the eight cultivators as they emerged, then fought through their spirit array and killed them.
• Lin Yu sensed a powerful aura in the camp and wondered whether its source had come for him.
• Lin Yu returned to Zhang Shuai, asked about other hidden experts, and secretly gave him more poison.
• Lin Yu entered the mist and told the voice questioning his powerful spiritual sense to get lost.

Lin Yu confronted Flame Dragon, the powerful cultivator who had stopped him from assassinating the generals, and learned that the old man wanted to teach him the principles of the Assassination Path. After Flame Dragon left, Lin Yu accepted the lessons and promised to end the battle soon.

• Lin Yu searched the military camp and confronted an aged cultivator who identified himself as Flame Dragon, a guest of the Flame Emperor.
• Flame Dragon stopped Lin Yu from attacking the generals, and their clash revealed that Lin Yu carried poison capable of harming them both.
• Flame Dragon questioned Lin Yu’s understanding of the Assassination Path and began teaching him its principles.
• Flame Dragon told Lin Yu to master speed, precision, ruthlessness, emotional control, and cold-bloodedness before leaving.
• Lin Yu thanked Flame Dragon and promised that the battle would end soon.

Lin Yu killed Zhang Shuai and other enemy commanders to break the army’s morale and bring the war to an end, then waited for Yan Ting and Yan Tian and killed them as well. As thousands of soldiers surrounded the command tent, Lin Yu faced the remaining threat and considered avoiding further slaughter.

• Lin Yu reached the fourth stage of Body Tempering and decided to kill enemy commanders during the moonless night.
• Lin Yu killed Zhang Shuai, then cut down more generals as funeral bells rang and the enemy army’s morale collapsed.
• Lin Yu revealed to the soldiers sharing the tent that he was an infiltrator, and he killed Zhang Qingchun after the old general accepted his death.
• Mo Ce’s camp learned that eighteen funeral-bell tolls signaled the enemy’s losses, while Yan Ting and Yan Tian rode toward the battlefield.
• Lin Yu killed Yan Ting and Yan Tian, dismissed the remaining soldiers, and found thousands of enemy troops surrounding the command tent.

Lin Yu arrived at the Ancient Imperial City with Mo Ce and challenged his account of the campaign before the Ancient Emperor. He accused Mo Ce of taking credit for his achievements and denying their past, leaving the dispute unresolved as Mo Ce continued to deny everything.

• Lin Yu teased Mo Ce during the journey and entered the Ancient Imperial City ahead of him.
• Mo Ce reported to the Ancient Emperor that Lin Yu had infiltrated the army and killed two men, while Lin Yu objected to Mo Ce's version of events.
• Lin Yu refused to kneel to the Ancient Emperor, who let the insult pass and asked whether Lin Yu was the suspected spy.
• Lin Yu accused Mo Ce of hiding his defeat, breaking his promise to Tianling City's people, and denying Lin Yu's military pledge.
• Lin Yu said Mo Ce's soldiers had seized him and taken the enemy commander's head, but Mo Ce denied knowing anything about it.

Lin Yu returned to the Ancient Imperial City as Mo Ce accused him of being an enemy spy and taking the heads of their own generals. Before the Ancient Emperor, Lin Yu challenged Mo Ce’s account and exposed contradictions, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Lin Yu arrived at the Ancient Imperial City with Mo Ce and mocked the general as they entered the city.
• Mo Ce reported to the Ancient Emperor that Lin Yu had infiltrated the army and killed one of their generals.
• Lin Yu refused to kneel to the Ancient Emperor, who laughed off his defiance and asked Mo Ce to explain the accusation.
• Lin Yu accused Mo Ce of taking credit for his deeds, hiding his defeat, and breaking his promise to let Tianling City’s people leave.
• Mo Ce denied Lin Yu’s claims, but Lin Yu pointed out that Mo Ce’s soldiers had seized the enemy commander’s head from him.

Lin Yu confronted Mo Ce over the order to arrest him, then used the missing enemy commanders’ heads to expose Mo Ce’s lies before the Ancient Emperor. After Lin Yu revealed the heads and six powerful cultivators he had killed, the Ancient Emperor ordered Mo Ce and his generals executed.

• Lin Yu challenged Mo Ce about ordering his arrest, and the Ancient Emperor summoned them to explain the matter in the main hall.
• Mo Ce learned that twenty headless corpses had been found among the scattered enemy army and ordered his men to search for the missing heads.
• Lin Yu told the Ancient Emperor that the eighteen heads were tied to his military order, while Mo Ce denied that any such order existed.
• The Ancient Emperor changed the contest to a race to find the heads, and Lin Yu revealed where one was buried beneath a locust tree.
• After the first head arrived, Lin Yu produced the other seventeen heads along with six heads belonging to powerful cultivators.
• The Ancient Emperor ordered Mo Ce and the generals under his command executed, and Mo Ce was dragged away despite a plea for mercy.

Lin Yu refused the Ancient Emperor’s offer of office, a marquisate, and Princess Linglong’s hand, insisting he wanted a quiet life with his arranged fiancée. The Ancient Emperor made him Great General and ordered him to stay in the capital, and Lin Yu realized the appointment was meant to expose officials who had colluded with the former Great General.

• A eunuch brought Mo Ce’s severed head before the Ancient Emperor, who dismissed him and used the scene to warn the court.
• The Ancient Emperor offered Lin Yu the post of Spirit-Pacifying General, but Lin Yu refused and explained that he wanted to find the woman he loved and avoid official life.
• The Ancient Emperor offered Princess Linglong as Lin Yu’s bride, but Lin Yu refused and said his Lineage had already arranged a fiancée for him.
• Lin Yu challenged the Ancient Emperor’s authority, saying he and his Lineage could leave the Ancient Kingdom, and guards restrained him until the Ancient Emperor ordered them to stand down.
• The Ancient Emperor appointed Lin Yu Great General and ordered him to remain in the capital to teach the lessons of the battle.
• Lin Yu understood that the appointment would expose officials who had colluded with the former Great General, then returned to his residence and found its staff replaced.

Lin Yu was summoned by the Ancient Emperor, who appointed him temporary Grand General, prompting Lin Yu to decide he should resign and return home. At the grand court assembly, he appeared in white and formally asked permission to leave office.

• The Ancient Emperor summoned Lin Yu and asked whether he had adjusted to serving as a general.
• The Ancient Emperor offered Lin Yu the temporary post of Grand General until a suitable replacement could be found, and Lin Yu accepted.
• Lin Yu returned to Lin Residence and told Nu Sheng to leave him alone before falling asleep.
• Princess Linglong arrived late at night, but Lin Yu refused to see her and sent her away.
• At the grand court assembly on the fifteenth, Lin Yu wore plain white and asked the Emperor to let him resign and return home.

Lin Yu secured permission to resign and leave the capital, but the Ancient Emperor secretly arranged to have him killed. On the road home, Lin Yu slaughtered sixteen assassins before a new group confronted him, and his attack disappeared into dust and poisonous mist.

• Lin Yu asked the Ancient Emperor to let him resign and return home, and several officials and Princess Linglong supported his request.
• The Ancient Emperor allowed Lin Yu to leave, and Lin Yu told Nu Sheng to pack their things.
• The Ancient Emperor consulted Elder Gu, who advised him to kill anyone who refused to serve him.
• Lin Yu and Nu Sheng were attacked on the road, and Lin Yu killed all sixteen assassins.
• A Ninth-Order Body Tempering cultivator confronted Lin Yu and said someone had paid a great price for his life.
• Lin Yu launched an attack that raised dust and poisonous mist around him.

Lin Yu killed Liu Cun and the other attackers after Liu Cun’s flying sword failed against the Nine World-Ending Swords. The Ancient Emperor learned of the massacre and Lin Yu’s threat, while Elder Gu warned that killing One Sword’s eldest disciple would bring a heavy price.

• Lin Yu fought Liu Cun while Nu Sheng held off the other three attackers.
• Lin Yu used the Nine World-Ending Swords to break Liu Cun’s Spirit Artifact and then killed him.
• Lin Yu killed two more attackers and Cheng Kun, then sent a warning to the Ancient Emperor through a survivor.
• The black-clad messenger told the Ancient Emperor that Lin Yu had killed the attackers and threatened to take his head if the pursuit continued.
• The Ancient Emperor considered sending a ninth-rank cultivator, and Elder Gu warned him to consider the consequences of killing One Sword’s eldest disciple.

Lin Yu learned from Nu Sheng about the vanished Three Great Sects and the World-Shaking War, then was ambushed by Yan Baiping, an assassin sent by the Ancient Emperor. Lin Yu fought back with his sword and blood essence but was overwhelmed by Yan Baiping’s Half-Step Netherpassage strength as the battle continued.

• Nu Sheng told Lin Yu about One Sword, Beyond Heaven, and Immortal Ascension, and recounted the World-Shaking War that had destroyed many sects.
• Lin Yu dismissed the danger posed by the sects and urged Nu Sheng onward toward the Lin Residence.
• Yan Baiping attacked Lin Yu with an arrow, revealed that he had been ordered to kill him, and demanded his storage ring.
• Lin Yu sent Nu Sheng ahead and fought Yan Baiping with his earth-grade Spirit Artifact, but Yan Baiping’s Half-Step Netherpassage strength sent him flying.
• Lin Yu used the Body-Slaying Sword and blood essence against Yan Baiping, then replenished his spiritual energy with Spirit Stones before Yan Baiping charged again.

Lin Yu fought Yan Baiping while Poison Slayer watched from a distance, relying on his sword and the poison secretly spreading through Yan Baiping’s body. The poison weakened Yan Baiping, who stopped resisting it and begged Lin Yu to spare him.

• Yan Baiping caught Lin Yu’s sword barehanded but failed to break it after discovering its pattern inscriptions.
• Lin Yu fought Yan Baiping, who repeatedly knocked him around while demanding to know where his master was.
• Poison Slayer watched the fight and left after confirming Lin Yu was not seriously injured.
• Lin Yu revealed that he had poisoned Yan Baiping during their fight, and Yan Baiping realized his strength was fading.
• Yan Baiping tried to resist the poison, coughed up black blood, then gave up and asked Lin Yu to spare his life.

Lin Yu learned from the Blood Commands that the undead he had killed gathered in the Undead Trial Grounds, where he fought their endlessly reviving souls. After returning, he used his blood to suppress Yan Baiping’s poison and tried to make him submit, but Yan Baiping’s assassin instincts made him resist, so Lin Yu forcibly took control of him.

• Lin Yu told Yan Baiping he would spare him if he combined the spiritual power and poison in his body.
• The Blood Commands summoned Lin Yu, explained that his first act of Life-Slaying had created them, and brought him to the Undead Trial Grounds.
• Lin Yu fought the souls of dead cultivators, discovering that they revived after he cut them down, while the Blood Commands judged him weak.
• Lin Yu returned to find Yan Baiping’s poison still active and gave him a drop of his blood, suppressing the poison for about half a year.
• Yan Baiping said he would submit but secretly resisted, so Lin Yu forcibly brought him under control.

Lin Yu returned to the Lin Residence with Nu Sheng after confronting the general’s forces, while Yan Baiping told the Ancient Emperor and Elder Gu that Lin Yu had defeated and poisoned him. Lin Yu reunited with his family and went to see his mother, leaving Nu Sheng to settle into a small room at the residence.

• Yan Baiping told the Ancient Emperor he was no match for Lin Yu because Lin Yu had poisoned him with a hidden poison that spiritual power could not expel.
• Elder Gu examined Yan Baiping and said the poisoning was not too deep, though he admitted he had never encountered that poison before.
• Lin Yu arrived at the Lin Residence with Nu Sheng and reminded Lin Bai that the household’s servants should not be treated harshly.
• Lin Yu introduced Nu Sheng to Lin Huan, then put off explaining what had happened at the general’s residence.
• Lin Yu sent Nu Sheng to stay in a small room and went to visit his mother, Wang Cheng, who welcomed him and urged him to stay home longer.

After returning from his mother Wang Cheng’s palace, Lin Yu’s battle wounds worsened, so he began recovering in seclusion. Lin Huan learned that the Ancient Emperor had ordered six attempts on Lin Yu’s life and left to inform Wang Cheng, while Lin Yu wondered whether he could use the Purple Yuelan’s remaining spiritual power in his vegetable garden.

• Lin Yu declined Wang Cheng’s suggestion that he move out of his wooden cabin and returned to his room, where his injuries caused him to cough up blood.
• Lin Yu began healing with the Purple Yuelan and told Nu Sheng to explain what had happened to Lin Huan and Wang Cheng.
• Nu Sheng told Lin Huan that the Ancient Emperor had appointed Lin Yu Grand General, then pursued him with six assassination attempts, the last involving a Half-Step Netherpassage expert.
• Lin Huan blamed the Ancient Emperor and warned that the Lin Family would retaliate if Lin Yu was harmed, then left to inform Wang Cheng.
• Nu Sheng reflected that Lin Yu valued his strength, while Lin Yu considered putting the Purple Yuelan’s remaining spiritual power into his vegetable garden.

Lin Yu left the Lin Residence to enter the Ten Thousand Mountains and seek his fortune, after persuading Lin Huan to let him go. He left Nu Sheng to protect the poisonous Purple Yuelan, while Lin Huan reassured him that Lin Yu was not in danger.

• Lin Yu buried the Purple Yuelan, warned Nu Sheng to guard it, and went to meet Lin Huan and Wang Cheng.
• Lin Huan and Wang Cheng urged Lin Yu to stay home and marry Ding Meng, but Lin Yu said he wanted to train alone in the Ten Thousand Mountains.
• Lin Huan initially forbade the trip, then let Lin Yu go after he showed her a Magic Core from a previous visit to the mountains.
• Lin Yu entered the Ten Thousand Mountains, determined to find his fortune and thinking about what Ding Meng would think if she knew he was her betrothed.
• That night, Nu Sheng asked Lin Huan where Lin Yu had gone, and she told him to keep guarding the spirit herb and said Lin Yu was not in danger.

After recovering, Lin Yu followed a powerful spiritual aura through the Ten Thousand Mountains and found three guards blocking the way to a rainbow butterfly. He defeated the guards protecting Gu Tian and Yan Tian’s gathering, killing Pan Sanqiu and Yang Miao while letting Yang Yan go.

• Lin Yu recovered from his injuries and followed the spiritual energy he sensed in the forest, moving through the trees as cultivators headed toward its source.
• Three guards challenged Lin Yu and warned him away from the rainbow butterfly; Lin Yu returned their arrow and confronted them.
• Yang Yan and Pan Sanqiu revealed that they served Gu Tian, son of the Ancient Emperor, and Yan Tian, son of the Flame Emperor, and recognized Lin Yu as the Great General.
• Lin Yu fought the three guards and used the Body-Slaying Sword Art, telling them that even a powerful assassin sent by the Ancient Emperor had failed to defeat him.
• Lin Yu killed Pan Sanqiu and Yang Miao, then told the remaining guard, Yang Yan, to leave.

Lin Yu watched Yan Fei and Gu Tian fight over Rainbow Butterfly, then revealed himself and killed Yan Fei before attacking Gu Tian. A hidden cultivator appeared and offered to help kill the prince in exchange for half the spiritual herb, but Lin Yu rejected the proposal.

• After killing three men, Lin Yu recovered his spiritual power and identified the spiritual herb as Rainbow Butterfly.
• Yan Fei and Gu Tian arrived and fought over Rainbow Butterfly with high-grade Spirit Artifacts while Lin Yu watched from hiding.
• Lin Yu revealed himself to Gu Tian, refused the prince’s offer of rank and title, and killed Yan Fei with a sword strike.
• Lin Yu told Gu Tian that he wanted to kill him and cut off his hand.
• A hidden man offered to help Lin Yu kill Gu Tian in exchange for half of Rainbow Butterfly, and Lin Yu shook his head.

Lin Yu fought Cai Shi over the Rainbow Butterfly, crippled him, and killed Gu Tian despite the threat of retaliation. As Lin Yu reached for the butterfly, another old man appeared and claimed it for his master.

• Lin Yu attacked Cai Shi, who had emerged to demand an equal share of the Rainbow Butterfly, and the two exchanged blows.
• Lin Yu wounded Cai Shi but took heavy injuries himself, then broke Cai Shi’s arms and cut them off when Cai Shi tried to keep fighting.
• Lin Yu cut off Cai Shi’s legs and left him unconscious before turning to the dying Gu Tian.
• Lin Yu killed Gu Tian with one sword, dismissing his warning that his imperial father would seek revenge.
• Lin Yu sensed a powerful aura, reached for the Rainbow Butterfly, and faced another old man who said his master had claimed it.

Lin Yu faced Yan Po after killing his prince, but the Blood Commands emerged from Lin Yu’s artifacts and killed Yan Po while Lin Yu was unconscious. After the other cultivators withdrew, Lin Yu took the Colorful Butterfly and reflected on the Blood Commands’ strength.

• Lin Yu confronted Yan Po and admitted he had killed Yan Po’s master while seeking the medicine.
• Yan Po struck Lin Yu repeatedly, and Lin Yu passed out after being knocked down.
• The seven Blood Commands appeared, revealed themselves as Lin Yu’s Natal Spirit Artifacts, and killed Yan Po.
• The remaining cultivators left, and Lin Yu woke, took the Colorful Butterfly from the tree, and found the area safe.
• Lin Yu recognized the Blood Commands’ strength and wondered at the spiritual power he had sensed.

Lin Yu killed the Grass Snake after it bit him and swallowed his toxin-laced blood, then refined the venom with the Five Poisons True Scripture. He gathered his spoils and cooked the snake, whose aroma drew the beasts of the Ten Thousand Mountains as he prepared to cultivate in seclusion.

• A Grass Snake bit Lin Yu while he examined the Rainbow Butterfly spirit herb, but its venom had little effect on him.
• Lin Yu fought the nimble Grass Snake, while Poison Slayer watched from a distance and remarked on its potential as a magic pet.
• The Grass Snake lunged at Lin Yu, and he severed its head with his sword before sitting down to refine the venom in his body.
• After an hour, Lin Yu sensed the spiritual power in the Ten Thousand Mountains growing more active and decided to cultivate there in seclusion.
• Lin Yu collected spirit items from four storage rings, then cooked the Grass Snake, and its aroma drew birds and beasts from several miles away.

Lin Yu fought Qin Sheng and his companion after sensing cultivators drawn by the turbulent spiritual energy in the Ten Thousand Mountains. He discovered the companion was the Spirit Emperor’s prince and let him leave, while the cause and consequences of the spiritual-energy upheaval remained unresolved.

• Lin Yu ate the grass snake he had killed, then tried to cultivate but was disrupted by violent fluctuations in the Ten Thousand Mountains.
• Blood Command warned Lin Yu that the spiritual energy had begun boiling after he killed people and that cultivators would soon return.
• Qin Sheng and his companion approached Lin Yu, who attacked them and challenged them to stay and fight.
• The companion covered the area in black mist, allowing him to kick Lin Yu and evade his sword.
• Lin Yu pursued a powerful life force, but the black mist vanished and Qin Sheng was struck down.
• Lin Yu recognized the wounded man’s Iron Brush and learned from a sheet of paper that he was the Spirit Emperor’s prince, then spared him in exchange for a promised favor.

Lin Yu used the Blood Command’s method to gather the scattered spiritual energy, then absorbed it as cultivators converged on him. After killing a Blade Sect cultivator who attacked him, he waited while the others watched for a chance to strike.

• Lin Yu asked the Blood Command how to gather spiritual energy, and it told him to use his own energy as a guide while warning that other cultivators would come.
• Lin Yu released his spiritual energy to draw in the surrounding energy, exhausted himself, and began recovering with a Spirit Stone as the gathered energy became visible.
• Poison Slayer noticed that cultivators had returned, while Lin Yu continued absorbing the energy despite their approach.
• A cultivator stabbed Lin Yu from behind, but Lin Yu struck him down and killed him after learning he was from the Blade Sect.
• Lin Yu sat down to recover as nearby cultivators discussed his killing intent and anticipated the Blade Sect’s arrival.