Recaps

Lin Fan abducted Wang Xi and demanded the Wang Family’s Chaos-Quelling Art, but a protective seal in her primordial spirit foiled his attempt to search her soul. He brought out another captive woman, leaving Wang Xi shocked as he prepared to use her as leverage.

• Lin Fan entered his sealed cultivation cave and released Wang Xi from his Heaven and Earth Bag.
• Lin Fan revealed that he had disguised himself as the Chaos-World Demon Ape and demanded that Wang Xi give him the Chaos-Quelling Art.
• Wang Xi refused to pass on her clan’s ancestral art, so Lin Fan forcibly searched her sea of consciousness.
• Lin Fan discovered a God-Sealing Art that would destroy Wang Xi’s primordial spirit if anyone tried to search it, and she awoke terrified and furious.
• Lin Fan brought a purple-haired woman out of a spatial magical artifact, leaving Wang Xi stunned.

Lin Fan tried to force Zi Ningshuang to reveal the Qilin Precious Technique and used her punishment to intimidate Wang Xi into surrendering the Chaos-Quelling Art. Wang Xi refused, and Lin Fan began humiliating her as well.

• Lin Fan released Zi Ningshuang, whom Wang Xi recognized as the Violet Palace's missing prized daughter and Jin Hong's vanished fiancée.
• Lin Fan recounted how Zi Ningshuang had used him to kill Jin Hong and then tried to silence him, and demanded the Qilin Precious Technique as compensation.
• When Zi Ningshuang refused, Lin Fan forced her to kneel and made Wang Xi watch her punishment.
• Lin Fan asked Wang Xi whether she would give up the Chaos-Quelling Art, but she refused to betray her family.
• Lin Fan tore Wang Xi's dress and left her exposed as she screamed and tried to cover herself.

At the Crouching Dragon Ground, Lin Fan tried to force Wang Xi to reveal the Chaos-Quelling Art while she and Zi Ningshuang remained imprisoned and powerless. Afterward, someone arrived outside the grand formation demanding that Lin Fan return Zi Ningshuang, leaving him facing a new confrontation.

• Lin Fan restrained Wang Xi and demanded that she hand over the Chaos-Quelling Art, but she refused and insulted him.
• Wang Xi offered other secret techniques, but Lin Fan said he needed the Chaos-Quelling Art and carried her to the stone couch.
• Lin Fan assaulted Wang Xi while Zi Ningshuang was forced to assist, and later Wang Xi and Zi Ningshuang remained captive with their cultivation sealed and treasures taken.
• Lin Fan sensed someone outside the cave and saw a young man demanding that he return Zi Ningshuang.

Purple Sun Heavenly Lord arrived at Crouching Dragon Ground and demanded that Lin Fan release Zi Ningshuang, his elder sister. Lin Fan learned who the newcomer was, then walked out to face him as the gathered Immortal Academy disciples watched.

• Purple Sun Heavenly Lord descended in a spectacle of purple qi and shouted for Lin Fan to hand over Zi Ningshuang.
• Lin Fan showed Zi Ningshuang the newcomer, and she recognized him as her younger brother and believed he had come to save her.
• Zi Ningshuang described Purple Sun Heavenly Lord’s extraordinary birth, cultivation, and primordial purple qi seed, while Wang Xi also hoped he could defeat Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan dismissed Zi Ningshuang’s confidence and said he would beat Purple Sun Heavenly Lord, then left the cultivation cave.
• The Immortal Academy disciples recognized Lin Fan as he emerged through the Mountain Gate, and they marveled at the power accompanying his steps.

Lin Fan faced Purple Sun Heavenly Lord at the Immortal Academy’s Mountain Gate, where he was accused of being involved in Zi Ningshuang’s disappearance and Jin Hong’s death. After evidence from a Supreme elder exposed his connection to the incident, Jin Family elder Jin Yunxiao attacked him, but an unknown figure intervened.

• Lin Fan arrived at the Mountain Gate and confronted Purple Sun Heavenly Lord, who asked whether he had anything to do with his elder sister Zi Ningshuang’s disappearance.
• Lin Fan denied knowing what Purple Sun Heavenly Lord meant, but a painting showed him with Yue Chan in Starfall City, and witnesses said a Supreme elder had reconstructed Jin Hong’s death from his blood.
• Jin Family members accused Lin Fan of killing Jin Hong, and Jin Yunxiao arrived to confront him.
• Lin Fan insulted Jin Yunxiao rather than showing deference, and Jin Yunxiao attacked with the World in the Palm.
• A flash of rosy light shattered Jin Yunxiao’s divine ability before it could capture Lin Fan.

The Second Elder stopped Jin Yunxiao from attacking Lin Fan, but Jin Yunxiao still sought permission to question him about Jin Hong’s death and Zi Ningshuang’s whereabouts. Lin Fan instead arranged a duel with the Purple Sun Heavenly Lord for the Qilin Precious Technique, and their battle began.

• The Second Elder, Zi Ying, broke Jin Yunxiao’s World in the Palm and warned him against using violence in the Immortal Academy.
• Jin Yunxiao asked to probe Lin Fan’s Sea of Consciousness, while Lin Fan mocked him and urged Zi Ying to kill him.
• The Purple Sun Heavenly Lord offered to fight Lin Fan to learn his sister’s whereabouts, and Lin Fan proposed a wager.
• After Zi Ying forbade a fight to the death, Lin Fan wagered the Qilin Precious Technique against information about the Purple Sun Heavenly Lord’s sister and another Ten Fiends' Precious Art.
• The Purple Sun Heavenly Lord accepted the wager, and he and Lin Fan began battling.

Lin Fan fought Purple Sun Heavenly Lord, whose primordial purple qi seed produced a powerful sun phenomenon. Lin Fan shattered it with his Chaos Green Lotus phenomenon, leaving the spectators stunned.

• Purple Sun Heavenly Lord challenged Lin Fan, and their first clash split the heavens and drew other Immortal Academy prodigies to watch.
• Purple Sun Heavenly Lord summoned a great sun of primordial purple qi and pressed Lin Fan beneath its radiance.
• Lin Fan and Purple Sun Heavenly Lord argued over whether Zi Ningshuang had tried to kill Jin Hong, and Purple Sun Heavenly Lord attacked in anger when Lin Fan insulted his sister.
• Lin Fan’s Chaos Green Lotus emerged from within the purple sun, scattering its qi and shattering the phenomenon.
• The spectators recognized Lin Fan’s Chaos Seed Nurturing Green Lotus as a phenomenon cultivated to an extraordinary level.

Lin Fan battled the Purple Sun Heavenly Lord, first overpowering his Qilin Precious Technique and then facing his True Phoenix Precious Art. The Purple Sun Heavenly Lord was left under Lin Fan’s Thunder Emperor Precious Technique as the clash continued.

• Lin Fan shattered the Purple Sun Heavenly Lord’s blazing sun and exchanged hundreds of rapid blows with him.
• The Purple Sun Heavenly Lord used the Qilin Precious Technique, while Lin Fan transformed into a Kunpeng and fought him head-on.
• Lin Fan’s Kunpeng wounded the Qilin and forced the Purple Sun Heavenly Lord into a disadvantage, prompting the Second Elder to praise Lin Fan’s stronger foundation.
• The Purple Sun Heavenly Lord transformed into a Divine Phoenix and unleashed the True Phoenix Precious Art.
• Lin Fan answered with the Thunder Emperor Precious Technique, summoning a storm and a thunder-filled small world to attack the Divine Phoenix.

Lin Fan used the Nine Heavens Tribulation Light to grievously wound Purple Sun Heavenly Lord, but Purple Sun healed with the True Phoenix Art and drew on his Primordial Purple Qi Seed. The duel continued as Purple Sun unleashed a storm of purple qi swords against Lin Fan.

• Lin Fan’s thunder world grew into a living realm as he fought Purple Sun Heavenly Lord’s purple phoenix with lightning and divine fire.
• Purple Sun Heavenly Lord damaged Lin Fan’s thunder world and pressed forward, but Lin Fan revealed the Nine Heavens Tribulation Light and struck him down.
• Lin Fan asked whether Purple Sun still wanted to fight, and Purple Sun healed his wounds with the True Phoenix Art and declared that his ancient method was stronger.
• Lin Fan attacked again with his Thunder Battle Saber, but Purple Sun’s Dao Seed blocked the descending beam and let him escape.
• Purple Sun Heavenly Lord wielded the Primordial Purple Qi Seed’s power to summon Heavenly Swords that shattered the area and flew toward Lin Fan.

Lin Fan fought Purple Sun Heavenly Lord, whose awakened primordial purple qi seed and supreme techniques failed to overcome Lin Fan’s Ancient Method and Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist. As Lin Fan sent him flying and inspired the Immortal Academy, First Elder Xiang Zhili watched with a mysterious young man whose cauldron seemed to recognize Lin Fan.

• Purple Sun Heavenly Lord fused with his primordial purple qi seed, activated his purple-gold indestructible body, and attacked Lin Fan with Purple Heaven Palm.
• Lin Fan countered with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist, wounding Purple Sun Heavenly Lord and proving he could contend with the perfect seed barehanded.
• Purple Sun Heavenly Lord rejected the prospect of defeat and attacked again, while Lin Fan declared that he needed no lineage or protector because he would claim what he wanted through his own efforts.
• Lin Fan’s words stirred Lan Xian, the Little Heavenly King, Lü Hong, and the Immortal Academy’s elders, before he struck Purple Sun Heavenly Lord flying.
• First Elder Xiang Zhili and a young man surrounded by chaos qi watched Lin Fan, and the young man thanked Xiang for helping bring back their young master as his cauldron responded.

Lin Fan defeated Purple Sun Heavenly Lord after Purple Sun forced the primordial purple qi seed to awaken and suffered its backlash. Purple Sun admitted defeat but vowed to challenge Lin Fan again after mastering the seed, while Lin Fan declared that he would leave him behind.

• Purple Sun Heavenly Lord awakened the primordial purple qi seed despite an elder's warning, but the seed's power overwhelmed him and caused him to spit blood.
• Lin Fan broke through the seed's attack, struck Purple Sun Heavenly Lord down, and pinned him beneath his foot.
• Purple Sun Heavenly Lord tried to detonate himself, but Lin Fan kicked him away before he could act, and the Third Elder caught him.
• Purple Sun Heavenly Lord admitted defeat after the Third Elder urged him to stop resisting, then vowed to fight Lin Fan again once he reached Void Dao and mastered the seed.
• Lin Fan said Purple Sun Heavenly Lord would never catch up, while Yang Ming and others in the crowd feared Lin Fan's growing strength.

After Lin Fan defeated Purple Sun Heavenly Lord, Jin Yunxiao launched a deadly sneak attack, but the Sage Emperor Cauldron intervened and killed him. The cauldron resonated with Lin Fan’s Human Emperor Banner, which was revealed as the Sage Emperor’s weapon from his first life, the Banner of Ten Thousand Souls.

• Lin Fan taunted Purple Sun Heavenly Lord about Zi Ningshuang, causing the defeated man to cough up blood and faint before he could give up the Qilin Precious Technique.
• Zi Ningshuang and Wang Xi despaired in the stone chamber after hearing that Purple Sun Heavenly Lord had lost.
• Jin Yunxiao attacked Lin Fan by surprise, and the Second Elder failed to stop the killing blow.
• The Sage Emperor Cauldron appeared, pinned everyone in place, and killed Jin Yunxiao with its power.
• Lin Fan’s Human Emperor Banner flew out and resonated with the cauldron, and the crowd recognized it as the Sage Emperor’s Banner of Ten Thousand Souls.

Lin Fan learned that the Banner and Cauldron recognized him as a descendant of the Sage Emperor, and Ning Yu invited him to return to the Sacred Emperor Palace. As Lin Fan began questioning his origins, the Wang Family head requested an audience with the First Elder.

• The Banner and Cauldron revolved around Lin Fan, prompting observers to suspect he was the Sage Emperor’s son.
• Ning Yu arrived with Xiang Zhili, recognized Lin Fan’s resemblance to the Sage Emperor, and invited him back to the Sacred Emperor Palace.
• At Xiang Zhili’s residence, Ning Yu explained that Ninth-Grade Evolution Liquid was exceptionally difficult and dangerous to refine, disappointing the gathered Old Monsters.
• Lin Fan accepted the revelation calmly but remained wary and wondered whether Ye Qingxian knew the truth about his origins.
• A messenger announced that the current head of the Wang Family had requested an audience with Xiang Zhili.

The Wang Family patriarch accused Lin Fan and Lan Xian of abducting Wang Xi, but Ning Yu intervened when he tried to probe their memories. Ning Yu forced Wang Chuqin to submit and ordered him to send Wang Changsheng, leaving the visitors to depart without resolving the accusation.

• Wang Chuqin accused Lin Fan and Lan Xian of abducting Wang Xi, citing suspicious events in the secret realm.
• Lin Fan and Lan Xian denied the accusation, and Wang Chuqin attempted to probe their memories.
• Ning Yu struck Wang Chuqin and revealed that Lin Fan was the Sage Emperor's son.
• Ning Yu used Supreme pressure to force Wang Chuqin to prostrate himself, then spared him at Xiang Zhili's request.
• Ning Yu ordered Wang Chuqin to send Wang Changsheng, and Wang Chuqin left without further protest.

After defeating Purple Sun Heavenly Lord, Lin Fan demanded the Qilin Precious Technique and bargained for Zi Ningshuang’s release. He received the technique, five stalks of divine medicine, and a Heavenly Bone, then sent Zi Ningshuang home with her brother.

• Lin Fan demanded the Qilin Precious Technique, and Purple Sun Heavenly Lord agreed to surrender it after losing their wager.
• Lin Fan demanded five stalks of divine medicine for Zi Ningshuang, and Purple Sun Heavenly Lord agreed to pay.
• The Purple-Clad Elder returned with five stalks of divine medicine and a Heavenly Bone inscribed with the Qilin Precious Technique.
• Lin Fan released Zi Ningshuang from a Bronze Box, and Purple Sun Heavenly Lord helped his haggard sister up.
• Zi Ningshuang stopped Purple Sun Heavenly Lord from confronting Lin Fan and left with him, while Lin Fan called after her about her skills with her mouth.

After months at the Sacred Emperor Palace, Lin Fan prepared to visit Senior Meng at the Heavenly God Academy to pursue the Body-as-a-Seed path. He agreed to release Wang Xi in exchange for divine herbs, while Yue Chan returned from training and asked where Lin Fan was.

• Lin Fan relaxed on the beach and declined to spar with Ning Fei until he learned that arrangements had been made for him to visit Senior Meng.
• Lin Fan rejected fusing with a heavenly seed and declared that he would pursue the Body-as-a-Seed path to advance beyond the Heavenly God Realm.
• Ning Fei told Lin Fan that the Wang Family had offered three Violet Palace divine herbs but would not trade the Chaos-Quelling Art, and Lin Fan agreed to release Wang Xi.
• Yue Chan returned to the Immortal Academy from training and asked where her big junior brother was.

Lin Fan flew to the Immortal Academy in a Supreme-level fighter and reunited with Yue Chan, who confronted him jealously about the women around him. He carried her into their room to enforce the family rules.

• Lin Fan piloted the fighter, guided by its Artifact Spirit Nannan, across Boundless Heaven to the Immortal Academy.
• The Academy’s residents recognized Lin Fan as the Little Sage Emperor, and he went to Crouching Dragon Ground to find Yue Chan.
• Yue Chan avoided Lin Fan and accused him of keeping company with Lan Xian, the Violet Palace’s fairy, and Wang Xi.
• Lin Fan explained his connections to the women and embraced Yue Chan despite her protests.
• Lin Fan carried Yue Chan to the bed and began enforcing the family rules.

Lin Fan spent several days with Yue Chan before leaving the Immortal Academy to visit the Heavenly Deity Academy and begin preparations for secluded cultivation. He arrived at the academy’s construction site in the Stars Sea, where Sacred Emperor Palace ships already had clearance.

• Lin Fan told Yue Chan he planned to visit the Heavenly Deity Academy and then enter secluded cultivation to advance into Void Dao, and promised to show her the Sacred Emperor Palace’s cultivation path.
• Yue Chan agreed to let Lin Fan leave after several days together and protested when he showed her the revealing garments he had ordered for her.
• Lin Fan left Yue Chan Advanced Evolution Liquid and cultivation resources, then ordered Nannan to take the warship to the Heavenly Deity Academy.
• Lin Fan reached the Stars Sea in less than half a day and noted that the academy was still under construction, with student recruitment several years away.
• Lin Fan flew his silver ship into the academy without obstruction and saw other Sacred Emperor Palace warships parked on its Divine Mountains.

At the Heavenly Deity Academy, Lin Fan met Meng Tianzheng and insisted on pursuing the perilous body-as-a-seed path despite learning that even his father, the Sage Emperor, had died before becoming an immortal. Meng Tianzheng accepted his resolve and sent him to test himself against the inheritance road his father had left behind.

• Lin Fan arrived at Meng Tianzheng's humble marshland residence inside the Heavenly Deity Academy.
• Meng Tianzheng warned Lin Fan that the body-as-a-seed path was deadly and showed him an image of the Sage Emperor dying on the Immortal Ascension Road.
• Lin Fan remained determined to take the path and argued that Meng Tianzheng's founding of the academy showed he too refused to give up hope.
• Meng Tianzheng approved of Lin Fan's resolve and told him to challenge the Sage Emperor's inheritance road as a test.
• Lin Fan agreed to challenge the inheritance road immediately.

Guided by Meng Tianzheng, Lin Fan entered the Metal Stele to attempt the Sage Emperor’s trial, where he had to remain undefeated against an imprint at every cultivation realm. Inside, he endured strange memories and found the remains of failed challengers before facing his first opponent at the Blood Moving Realm.

• Meng Tianzheng explained the trial’s deadly difficulty and gave Lin Fan a Jade Talisman that could save his life once.
• Lin Fan showed Meng Tianzheng his Soul-Nourishing Wood Substitute Death Talisman, and Meng Tianzheng said it could protect him alongside the Jade Talisman.
• Lin Fan entered the Metal Stele and was overwhelmed by memories of a boy seeking revenge and the resurrection of his family and friends.
• Lin Fan recovered his focus, saw the corpses of challengers with strands of immortal qi, and realized how dangerous failure was.
• A near-identical opponent appeared, Lin Fan’s cultivation was suppressed to the Blood Moving Realm, and the two began fighting.

Lin Fan fought and narrowly defeated an equally powerful version of himself in the Blood Moving Realm, then faced the next trial in the Cave Heaven Realm. His opponent revealed a unique cave heaven and the Great Unity Heavenly Art, leaving Lin Fan to recognize how such a supreme technique might have originated.

• Lin Fan adapted to the Blood Moving Realm and discovered his opponent had also cultivated the Indestructible Scripture.
• Lin Fan fought his other self for three days and three nights, finally winning by a narrow margin.
• The next trial began, raising Lin Fan's cultivation to the Cave Heaven Realm, where he recovered with his immortal bone.
• Lin Fan saw that his opponent possessed a unique cave heaven that mirrored his own and began another battle.
• The other Lin Fan's cave heaven formed a black precious vase and used the Great Unity Heavenly Art, prompting Lin Fan to realize the technique may have evolved from a unique cave heaven.

Lin Fan passed a brutal Cave Heaven trial and advanced to Spirit Transformation, but his next battle against an extreme-realm demonic version of himself ended in mutual death. After a Life-Substitution Talisman saved him, he left the stone stele to recover and refine his path.

• Lin Fan condensed his arts into his heavenly passage and narrowly defeated his Cave Heaven opponent after thousands of clashes, advancing to Spirit Transformation.
• Lin Fan faced an opponent who had formed a demonic embryo and broken through the Spirit Transformation extreme realm.
• Lin Fan fought with his phenomena and ten spirit bodies against the opponent's fused true self for days and nights, and they ultimately killed each other.
• A Life-Substitution Talisman saved Lin Fan, who withdrew from the trials to recuperate and study the battle.
• Lin Fan returned to the outside world after more than half a month of fighting, his Battle Garment torn and stained with blood.

After Lin Fan emerged from the Metal Stele without passing its unusually difficult trial, Meng Tianzheng guided him through preparations for breaking through the Heavenly God Realm via body-as-a-seed. With rare treasures delivered by the Sacred Emperor Palace, they began the breakthrough preparations, leaving Lin Fan ready to proceed.

• Lin Fan emerged from the Metal Stele and told Meng Tianzheng that he had faced the Sage Emperor at his youthful peak, making the trial far harder than expected.
• Meng Tianzheng gave Lin Fan Immortal Ancient Script texts and warned him about the dangers of breaking through the Heavenly God Realm along the body-as-a-seed path.
• Lin Fan studied the texts, then arranged for the Sacred Emperor Palace to deliver the rare treasures Meng Tianzheng said were needed for the breakthrough.
• Lin Fan told Meng Tianzheng he had already eaten a Yellow Springs Fruit and described the many treasures that had strengthened his body and primordial spirit.
• The Sacred Emperor Palace delivered the treasures, and Meng Tianzheng prepared medicinal pools before Lin Fan began his breakthrough preparations.

Meng Tianzheng put Lin Fan through brutal medicinal, blade, and venomous-insect trials to develop his Indestructible Golden Body and prepare him to achieve Body-as-a-Seed. Lin Fan endured the repeated torment and vowed to unlock his full potential, while Meng Tianzheng continued the tempering.

• Meng Tianzheng immersed Lin Fan in a medicinal pool, added dragon blood, and struck his bones with a saber as Lin Fan circulated the Indestructible Scripture.
• After more than ten days of torment, Lin Fan used his Supreme Bone to heal, and Meng Tianzheng sent him into a pool filled with venomous Primordial Variants.
• Lin Fan endured ten days and nights of bites and venom, then recovered in divine medicine and felt ready to attempt the trial again.
• Meng Tianzheng told Lin Fan that he needed to reach the pinnacle in every aspect before attempting Body-as-a-Seed and subjected him to more rounds of tempering.
• Meng Tianzheng urged Lin Fan to develop his Indestructible Golden Body fully, and Lin Fan gritted his teeth and vowed to succeed.

Lin Fan spent six months under Meng Tianzheng’s harsh training, strengthening his physique and forging his primordial spirit with an incomplete fragment of the Chaos-Quelling Art. His primordial spirit ultimately repelled a Soul-Striking Weapon, leaving him confident he could win their earlier Metal Stele battle.

• Lin Fan completed three months of physical tempering, reaching a new pinnacle in his Indestructible Golden Body.
• Meng Tianzheng trained Lin Fan’s primordial spirit with ancient methods and taught him an incomplete fragment of the Chaos-Quelling Art.
• Meng Tianzheng used rare medicines and a soul-striking mace to temper Lin Fan’s primordial spirit, while explaining the Sage Emperor’s three Secret Techniques and urging Lin Fan to undertake the trials.
• After six months of training, Lin Fan’s primordial spirit met the Red-Gold Mace’s strike with a Fist Seal and sent the weapon flying.
• Lin Fan thanked Meng Tianzheng and concluded that he would now win if he fought again in the Metal Stele.