Recaps

Lin Yu subdued the yellow desert with his flute and found a trail leading toward a Heaven-Mending Fragment, which he believed could help him uncover the secrets of space. After walking far beyond the reported five thousand meters without reaching it, he suspected distance worked differently in the desert and asked the system to recalculate.

• Lin Yu used his flute and elemental power to tame the desert and reveal a white line pointing toward a Heaven-Mending Fragment five thousand meters away.
• Lin Yu decided to investigate the fragments’ connection to space and followed the line, merging his power with the desert’s origin.
• The black-robed priest sensed Lin Yu walking through the desert and mistakenly assumed he was powerless and would tire himself to death.
• After walking much farther than five thousand meters without finding the fragment, Lin Yu questioned whether distance differed inside the desert and asked the system for the current distance.

Lin Yu learned that the Heaven-Mending Fragment’s power formed the entire Land of Yellow Sand and set out to break through it. As the land sensed his power as a threat, it shifted into a violent defensive state, filling the area with blinding sand and dust.

• Lin Yu used the system to learn that the Heaven-Mending Fragment was within five thousand meters and that its power permeated the Land of Yellow Sand.
• Lin Yu realized the fragment’s influence had suppressed his power and made him think of walking instead of using spiritual power.
• Lin Yu decided to turn the Land of Yellow Sand upside down, take the Heaven-Mending Fragment, and obtain the Phoenix Clan’s essence blood.
• Lin Yu tried to control the land with the white jade flute, but the fragment’s power detected him as a threat and entered defense mode.
• The Land of Yellow Sand returned to a storm of flying sand and stones, leaving Lin Yu barely able to see three meters ahead.

Lin Yu tried to control the Land of Yellow Sand with his white jade flute, but its resistance overwhelmed his initial spell. He changed his approach and played again with a gentler mindset, seeking acceptance from the mysterious power within.

• The Land of Yellow Sand erupted into a raging sea of fire, and Lin Yu protected himself with a barrier of blue-violet lightning.
• The black-robed priest sensed the Land of Yellow Sand’s scorching presence but could not see inside and was too wary to enter.
• Lin Yu played his white jade flute to communicate with the land, but his control failed when it detected his desire to seize the Heaven-Mending Fragment.
• Lin Yu recognized the fragment’s unusual power and decided to rely on his own spiritual strength after the Dao-Opening Era system gave no response.
• Lin Yu calmed his thoughts, then played the flute with less spiritual power to seek reconciliation with the Land of Yellow Sand.

Lin Yu tried to calm the Land of Yellow Sand with his white jade flute, but the Heaven-Mending Fragment detected his intent and launched a powerful attack. He fought back while sending out clones and phantom images to locate the fragment before the battle damaged it or overwhelmed him.

• Lin Yu withdrew his elemental protection and played the white jade flute, briefly easing the Land of Yellow Sand’s aggression.
• The system warned Lin Yu that the Land of Yellow Sand was gathering spiritual power for a large-scale attack.
• Lin Yu realized the Heaven-Mending Fragment might be intelligent enough to detect his desire to obtain it.
• Lin Yu activated the Hongmeng System’s defenses and layered his own elemental barriers as the yellow sand crashed into him.
• Lin Yu used the Origin Technique to create clones and phantom images, sending the images across the Land of Yellow Sand to find the Heaven-Mending Fragment.

Lin Yu battled the Heaven-Mending Fragment of the Phoenix Ancestral Sea inside its Land of Yellow Sand while searching for its hiding place. He discovered the fragment was weakening but remained puzzled by its power, and resolved to capture it so he could investigate how Dao Awakening era fragments differed from those of the Three Thousand Immortal Worlds.

• Lin Yu sent clones to withstand the yellow sand and dispatched phantom figures to search for the Heaven-Mending Fragment.
• Lin Yu kept attacking the sand to make the fragment believe he was focused on a straightforward battle.
• The Heaven-Mending Fragment noticed its power weakening while Lin Yu's spiritual power remained abundant, and it panicked.
• Lin Yu considered how fragments differed between eras and decided he needed to obtain the Dao Awakening era fragment to investigate.

Lin Yu realized the Heaven-Mending Fragment had grown stronger by devouring the cultivators trapped in the Land of Yellow Sand, while his own spiritual power was running low. He ordered the system to maximize his defense and searched for a way to defeat the Fragment quickly, then sensed a change in the yellow sand.

• Lin Yu concluded that the Heaven-Mending Fragment had gained power and intelligence by devouring intruders and their consciousnesses.
• The system warned Lin Yu that the Fragment’s attack power was increasing and recommended raising his defense.
• Lin Yu realized his spiritual power was fading because the Land of Yellow Sand replenished it too slowly, and ordered the system to maximize his defense level.
• Lin Yu resolved to end the fight quickly, accepting that he might have to take the Heaven-Mending Fragment back in pieces rather than preserve it intact.
• Lin Yu asked the system to check for changes in the yellow sand after sensing that it had changed.

Lin Yu discovered that the Heaven-Mending Fragment in the Land of Yellow Sand was mutating after absorbing the spiritual power and consciousness of cultivators, a change he traced to the black-robed priest's scheme. He captured the fragment's true body and effortlessly subdued the sandstorm it controlled.

• Lin Yu learned from the system that the Heaven-Mending Fragment was transforming ahead of schedule and suspected the black-robed priest had used it to trap cultivators.
• The system's deduction revealed that the fragment had absorbed cultivators' spiritual power and consciousness, causing it to mutate under the influence of their dark attributes.
• Lin Yu realized the mutation could threaten the Dao Enlightenment Era, then received word that his phantoms had located the fragment's true body.
• Lin Yu took the Heaven-Mending Fragment into his hand and trapped it inside a sphere of blue-violet Power of Thunder.
• The fragment unleashed the Land of Yellow Sand against Lin Yu, but he scattered the sand and stones with a gentle breeze and a seemingly weightless palm strike.

Lin Yu captured the Heaven-Mending Fragment, erased the foreign consciousness that had corrupted it, and sealed the remaining original wisp for safekeeping. After the Land of Yellow Sand vanished, he turned to leave and found the black-robed high priest glaring resentfully at him.

• Lin Yu revealed that the sand and stones had never threatened him and used a phantom to trick the Heaven-Mending Fragment into being captured.
• Lin Yu wiped out the consciousness formed from cultivators the fragment had devoured, calming the fragment and restoring peace to the Land of Yellow Sand.
• Lin Yu discovered a surviving wisp of the fragment's original consciousness, chose not to erase it, and sealed the fragment with lightning power in his storage space.
• The Land of Yellow Sand disappeared after Lin Yu put away the Heaven-Mending Fragment, revealing the surrounding Phoenix Ancestral Sea.
• Lin Yu prepared to return, then turned and met the resentful gaze of the black-robed high priest.

Lin Yu confronted the black-robed high priest over the Phoenix Clan’s misuse of the Heaven-Mending Fragment, which had weakened its ability to resist a future calamity. After the high priest guessed Lin Yu might be the prophesied savior, Lin Yu decided the damage mattered more than their personal feud and accused him of nearly ruining the artifact.

• The black-robed high priest questioned Lin Yu about his identity and how he had taken control of the Heaven-Mending Fragment.
• Lin Yu accused the Phoenix Clan of confining the fragment and making it devour living beings, which had damaged its power.
• The black-robed high priest asked whether Lin Yu was the person in the prophecy who would change heaven’s will, and Lin Yu let him believe it.
• Lin Yu used the system to learn that an old prophecy foretold a calamity and a savior who could subdue the Heaven-Mending Fragments.
• Lin Yu decided not to overlook the high priest’s actions and accused him of guiding the fragment’s spiritual intelligence astray and nearly destroying it.

Lin Yu demanded that the black-robed high priest cripple half his cultivation and origin power to atone for his actions, but the high priest refused and challenged him. The high priest transformed into his Ancient Phoenix form and attacked first, while Lin Yu remained confident in his superiority.

• Lin Yu told the black-robed high priest to destroy half his cultivation and origin power or face his intervention.
• The black-robed high priest rejected Lin Yu’s demand, insisting that only Lord Phoenix Master could command him and that he was protecting the Archaic Phoenix Clan.
• Lin Yu challenged the black-robed high priest to make his move rather than keep arguing.
• The black-robed high priest transformed into a radiant Ancient Phoenix, doubling his power and stirring fierce winds across the Phoenix Ancestral Sea.
• Lin Yu judged the high priest still unqualified to match him, and the high priest struck first.

Lin Yu confronted the black-robed high priest over his use of the Heaven-Mending Fragment and understood that the high priest had acted to protect the Archaic Phoenix Clan. The high priest abandoned his hopeless fight and appealed to Lin Yu’s gratitude toward the Phoenix Lord, leaving Lin Yu aware of his ploy but unwilling to ignore the clan’s predicament.

• Lin Yu reasoned that the black-robed high priest had attacked because he feared that surrendering would leave the Archaic Phoenix Clan vulnerable to outside powers.
• The black-robed high priest declared that he had to protect the Phoenix Clan as the previous Phoenix Lord had entrusted him with its care, and said one of them would die.
• Lin Yu challenged the high priest’s decision to use the Heaven-Mending Fragment, warning that destroying the Daoqi Era would also endanger the Phoenix Clan.
• The black-robed high priest defended using the fragment for the clan’s benefit and admitted that it had also brought danger and covetous cultivators to the Phoenix Clan.
• The black-robed high priest stopped fighting and played the victim, betting that Lin Yu would remember how the Phoenix Lord had saved him.
• Lin Yu recognized the high priest’s calculation and praised his efforts to protect the Phoenix Clan, but felt helpless about the clan’s situation.

Lin Yu punished the black-robed high priest for destroying the Heaven-Mending Fragment by trapping him inside a miniature World-Ending Great Calamity. He returned to his room, leaving the Phoenix Clan unaware that its high priest had disappeared.

• Lin Yu told the black-robed high priest that his circumstances did not excuse destroying the Heaven-Mending Fragment.
• Lin Yu revealed a miniature World-Ending Great Calamity recreated from his memories and explained that he had designed it to punish the high priest without severely damaging his origin power.
• The black-robed high priest accepted that he could not resist and charged toward the black cube.
• Lin Yu expanded the cube, bound the black-robed high priest in black light, and sealed him inside it.
• Lin Yu put away the cube and returned to his room, while the Phoenix Clan remained unaware of the high priest's disappearance.

Lin Yu left his quarters to seek Feng Nianzhi and ask about the Phoenix Clan’s graveyard, while the imprisoned black-robed high priest feared he would harm the Phoenix Lord. Feng Nianzhi calmly faced Lin Yu’s request, leaving his purpose for seeking the graveyard unresolved.

• Lin Yu mocked the black-robed high priest because the Phoenix Clan had not noticed her disappearance, and she explained that the clan was used to her long absences.
• The black-robed high priest sensed Lin Yu heading toward Feng Nianzhi and warned him not to hurt the Phoenix Lord, so Lin Yu sealed away her voice.
• Lin Yu walked through the Phoenix Clan’s dwelling place, intending to seek Feng Nianzhi and considering how he might unlock system permissions without taking phoenix essence blood.
• Lin Yu found Feng Nianzhi perched in a parasol tree, and she noted that only three days had passed since they last met.
• Lin Yu asked Feng Nianzhi where the Phoenix Clan’s graveyard was, and she remained calm.

Lin Yu followed Feng Nianzhi to the phoenix tombs, hoping to obtain phoenix essence blood. He learned that the ancient trees were phoenixes whose bodies and souls had been destroyed, while Feng Nianzhi silently accepted the painful choice of guiding him there to protect her living clan.

• Lin Yu asked Feng Nianzhi where the phoenix tombs were, and the black-robed high priest angrily objected from inside Lin Yu's sleeve.
• Feng Nianzhi took Lin Yu by the finger and led him toward the tombs, choosing to prioritize her living clanspeople despite the cost.
• Feng Nianzhi brought Lin Yu to a forest of ancient trees and solemnly explained that the trees were phoenix seniors transformed after their bodies and souls were destroyed.
• Feng Nianzhi pointed Lin Yu toward a direction in the tombs, and Lin Yu thanked her as she turned away and gazed into the distance.

Lin Yu entered the Phoenix Tomb to seek a drop of phoenix essence blood, while Feng Nianzhi left him to face its guards alone. He encountered a phoenix clansman who awakened the stone statues and threatened him, and Lin Yu tried to explain that he had already spoken with the Phoenix Lord and the Phoenix High Priest.

• Lin Yu followed Feng Nianzhi’s directions into the Phoenix Tomb to search for phoenix essence blood among the remains.
• A hidden living being alerted Lin Yu, and he suspected that the stone statues were the tomb’s guards.
• A red-haired phoenix clansman appeared and awakened the surrounding stone statues with the marking on his forehead.
• The phoenix clansman warned Lin Yu to leave and claimed the clan’s high priest was on the way, while the Phoenix High Priest remained trapped in Lin Yu’s sleeve.
• Lin Yu said he only wanted a drop of phoenix essence blood and claimed he had already informed Feng Nianzhi and the Phoenix High Priest.

Lin Yu fought a Phoenix clansman who used a beast-taming technique to summon magical demonic beasts. After Lin Yu mocked the clansman for riding a white tiger that resembled a member of the Supreme White Tiger Clan, the beasts surrounded him, and one collapsed into a thin skin when he struck it.

• The Phoenix clansman accused Lin Yu of seeking phoenix essence blood and sent a transformed stone statue beast to attack him.
• Lin Yu studied the beast-taming spell and let the fight continue so he could examine the method.
• Two giant pythons and the other summoned beasts charged Lin Yu as tremors shook the mountain.
• Lin Yu saw the Phoenix clansman riding a white tiger and laughed, imagining how the Supreme White Tiger Clan would react.
• The Phoenix clansman ordered his beasts to surround Lin Yu, who punched one and watched it deflate into a thin layer of skin.

Lin Yu fought a Phoenix clansman who used strange demonic beasts and argued that the Phoenix Clan had resorted to forbidden methods to survive. The beasts recovered, and Lin Yu realized the Phoenix Clan had given snakes the presence of dragons as the fight continued.

• Lin Yu battered the Phoenix clansman and his demonic beasts, but the wounded man refused to yield.
• The Phoenix clansman explained that the Phoenix Clan had been persecuted over the Heaven-Mending Fragment and used extraordinary means to stay alive.
• The demonic beasts Lin Yu had damaged regenerated and returned to the fight.
• The Phoenix clansman mounted a white tiger and sent two giant snakes charging at Lin Yu.
• Lin Yu recognized the snakes' dragon-like roars and suspected the Phoenix Clan had tampered with the Supreme Dragon Race.

Lin Yu tested ways to defeat the Phoenix Clan’s stone pythons and learned that fire spells could exploit their incomplete dragon souls, but decapitation did not stop them. He killed the Phoenix Clan youth’s spirit beast tiger, which turned to ash, leaving the youth shocked.

• Lin Yu asked the system to analyze the stone pythons, and it advised using fire-element spells against their incomplete dragon souls.
• Lin Yu used a flaming saber to behead the pythons, but they quickly grew new heads and continued attacking.
• The Phoenix Clan youth mocked Lin Yu and sent a spirit beast tiger to attack him.
• Lin Yu slashed the tiger, causing it to shrivel and turn to ash before the youth could restore it.

Lin Yu revealed that he had neutralized the young Phoenix clansman’s beast-taming spell by withdrawing his spiritual power and fighting with physical strength alone. He demanded phoenix essence blood and began cutting down the controlled spirit beasts when the young man refused to yield.

• The young Phoenix clansman questioned how Lin Yu had discovered the weakness of his beast-taming method and expressed fear at Lin Yu’s ability to overcome it.
• The black-robed high priest realized that Lin Yu had broken the spell by precisely withdrawing his spiritual power, and wondered how an outsider knew the Archaic Phoenix Clan’s secrets.
• Lin Yu explained that he had confidence in his physical strength and demanded that the young Phoenix clansman surrender the phoenix essence blood.
• The young Phoenix clansman sent his spirit beasts to attack again, and Lin Yu advanced with his saber to slaughter them.
• Lin Yu recognized that the spirit beasts had no consciousness or organs and were controlled by an unusual power that let them fight without fear.

Lin Yu overwhelmed the Phoenix Clan youth’s spirit beasts and revealed that he was the Hall Master of the Primordial Hall, a title the youth did not recognize. The youth still refused to surrender phoenix essence blood and chose to defend the Phoenix Tomb to the death, leaving Lin Yu struck by the Archaic Phoenix Clan’s stubborn pride.

• Lin Yu killed or injured more than half of the spirit beasts under the Phoenix Clan youth’s command.
• The Phoenix Clan youth asked Lin Yu for his name after realizing the expected black-robed high priest had not arrived.
• Lin Yu introduced himself as the Hall Master of the Primordial Hall, but the Phoenix Clan youth had never heard of him.
• The Phoenix Clan youth resolved to defend the Phoenix Tomb and refused to hand over phoenix essence blood, even if it cost him his life.
• Lin Yu recognized the youth’s unyielding pride and reflected on how stubborn the Archaic Phoenix Clan was.

Lin Yu fought the Phoenix Clan youth and used the Hongmeng System to investigate the living Two-Headed Giant Python he rode. The system revealed the Archaic Phoenix Clan had subdued the serpents after taking over the Phoenix Ancestral Sea, but withheld how the serpent’s multiple lives worked.

• Lin Yu continued destroying the spirit beasts controlled by the Phoenix Clan youth and questioned why he used other races’ remains instead of those of his own clansmen.
• The Phoenix Clan youth defended his clan’s superiority and charged Lin Yu while riding a Two-Headed Giant Python that still possessed a trace of life force.
• Lin Yu stalled the youth while asking the Hongmeng System to investigate the serpent.
• The Hongmeng System explained that Two-Headed Giant Serpents once ruled demonic beasts in the Phoenix Ancestral Sea and had been tamed by the Archaic Phoenix Clan.
• Lin Yu asked how many lives the serpent had, but the Hongmeng System replied that he had insufficient access and could not be told.

Lin Yu restored his full strength and fought the Phoenix Clan’s young man and his Two-Headed Giant Serpent. After the system revealed that the serpent’s eyes were the source of its power, Lin Yu focused on that weakness while the young man grew wary.

• Lin Yu identified the era’s restriction on his strength and broke it, returning his spiritual power to its peak.
• Lin Yu sent a silver treasured sword after the Two-Headed Giant Serpent, but the young man and the serpent dodged together.
• Lin Yu noticed the serpent could move despite his spiritual pressure and asked the system how to defeat it.
• The system revealed that the Two-Headed Giant Serpent’s eyes were the source of its power.
• The young man noticed Lin Yu’s changed gaze and became wary of him.

Lin Yu fought the young Phoenix clansman guarding the Phoenix Tomb and easily overpowered him after briefly matching his strength. He left the clansman alive but burning under a spell meant to teach him what it felt like to be controlled.

• Lin Yu charged at the Two-Headed Giant Serpent, but the young Phoenix clansman transformed into an Ancient Phoenix and attacked him.
• Lin Yu and the young Phoenix clansman clashed with ice and fire, shaking the Phoenix Tomb and destroying its tranquil surroundings.
• Lin Yu increased his power, overwhelmed the young Phoenix clansman, and set him ablaze with a spell imitating beast-taming arts.
• Lin Yu said he wanted to teach the clansman a lesson rather than kill him, while the clansman roared in pain beneath the flames.

Lin Yu stopped torturing the young man of the Phoenix Clan when Feng Nianzhi arrived, then questioned her about the Phoenix Clan’s beast puppets. The young man remained suspicious of Lin Yu, while Feng Nianzhi insisted she had brought him and trusted him.

• Feng Nianzhi appeared at the Phoenix Tomb and asked Lin Yu to stop; Lin Yu withdrew his flames from the young man of the Phoenix Clan.
• Lin Yu asked Feng Nianzhi whether her clan’s beast-taming technique turned living spirit beasts into puppets, and she explained that the demonic beasts had died naturally before their bodies were preserved and trained.
• The young man of the Phoenix Clan, too weak to stand, crawled toward Feng Nianzhi and warned her that Lin Yu was dangerous.
• Feng Nianzhi told the young man that she had brought Lin Yu and that he was not a bad person, leaving the young man resentful and unconvinced.

Lin Yu asked Feng Nianzhi for a drop of Phoenix Essence Blood and promised to fulfill one request in return. The Phoenix Clan youth objected because Lin Yu was holding the black-robed high priest, then refused to yield, leaving the dispute unresolved.

• The Phoenix Clan youth warned Feng Nianzhi that Lin Yu wanted Phoenix Essence Blood from the sacred Phoenix Tomb.
• Lin Yu offered to fulfill one request within his ability if the clan gave him a drop of Phoenix Essence Blood, and Feng Nianzhi agreed.
• The Phoenix Clan youth demanded to know what Lin Yu had done to the black-robed high priest, who was being held in a trial created by the Hongmeng System.
• Lin Yu explained that the high priest would be released after atoning for his sins, but the Phoenix Clan youth demanded his release and threatened to destroy the Phoenix Tomb rather than give up its treasure.
• The Phoenix Clan youth called Lin Yu a petty villain and challenged him, while Lin Yu dismissed the threat.