Recaps

Lin Heng and Sun Yuan entered the Ninefold Heaven, exposed Xuchengzi’s treachery, and joined the struggle for a Source Vein. Sun Yuan won a place among the final eight, and Lin Heng stepped forward to face the factions challenging him.

• Sun Yuan defeated Inoue Bakyo after breaking through to the Samsara Realm, while Lin Heng mastered the Law of Time and defeated Meichuan Qingming’s pressure to submit.
• Lin Heng, Sun Yuan, and Situ Jiannan traveled to the Ninefold Heaven and helped the Qian Yuan Sect defeat the attacking Thunderbird Clan.
• Xuchengzi offered Lin Heng land and Source Crystals in exchange for help in the coming Source Vein contest, and Lin Heng used the crystals to break through to the Samsara Realm.
• Situ Jiannan exposed Xuchengzi’s use of the Blood and Bone Linked art at the Hundred Sects Assembly, and Asura Island’s experts killed Xuchengzi and Xuehai Moluo.
• Sun Yuan defeated several opponents in the martial competition and overcame Jin Maohou, a Sixth-Turn Samsara cultivator, to enter the final eight.
• When sects prepared to challenge Sun Yuan’s place in the final eight, Lin Heng took his place and killed Xiao He and a Sixth-Turn Samsara merfolk fighter.
• With no one else daring to challenge him, Lin Heng pointed his Killing Sword at the factions aligned with the Eight Great Imperial Clans and demanded they send an expert.

Lin Heng won the tournament, secured resources for the Qian Yuan Sect, and maneuvered against the Fire Clan while preparing his sect for its founding. He gathered Liuyun Lan, Chen Yulin, Miao Jingkong, and Lin Xiao at the ancient ruins beneath Rippling Moon Lake, where they found an inaccessible heavenly abode.

• Lin Heng defeated Yan Ming, forced the Fire Clan to negotiate, and advanced through the tournament after Keluoduo and other opponents surrendered.
• Lin Heng killed Longlong Yan and Yu Changfeng, won first place, and received future territory and mining rights to three Origin Veins.
• Yan Yao revealed that the Fire Clan had withheld Lin Heng’s promised territory and Origin Vein, and Yan Lan killed Yan Yao before agreeing to pay twenty thousand Source Crystals and postpone the land dispute for ten years.
• Lin Heng organized the Qian Yuan Sect, arranged for Keluoduo to help find the Origin Soul Spirit, and captured three Great Sun Race cultivators to gather resources for him.
• Lin Heng secured Yan Lin’s help in obtaining a time spirit treasure, gave it to Situ Jiannan, and left to investigate the weakening ruins beneath Rippling Moon Lake.
• Lin Heng invited Liuyun Lan and Chen Yulin to join Miao Jingkong and Lin Xiao at the ruins, and they agreed that Lin Heng would choose treasures first.
• The five descended into the lake after its seal vanished and found the heavenly abode of Heavenly Venerable Green Mountain and Heavenly Venerable Green Water, but Miao Jingkong could not break its formation barrier.

Lin Heng passed the Peach Garden Heavenly Abode's trials, gained control of the estate, and made Miao Jingkong and Lin Xiao his servants. After returning to the Qian Yuan Sect, he investigated the Origin Soul Spirit and learned that the Eight Great Imperial Clans had sworn to kill promising ascenders who founded new factions.

• Lin Heng entered the Heavenly Abode with Liuyun Lan and Chen Yulin, while Miao Jingkong and Lin Xiao faced harsher trials because of their imperial clan affiliations.
• Lin Heng comprehended Time Reversal on the Ten Thousand Swords Bridge and raised his soul to the Fourth-Grade Heavenly Venerable Realm.
• Lin Heng collected Heavenly Venerable Origin Treasures and received three choices from Dijiang's treasure room because of his multiple physiques.
• Lin Heng trained against Tian Thirty-Two in Battle Heaven Hall for 180,000 years and developed One Sword Separates Worlds.
• Dijiang recognized Lin Heng as the awaited successor, gave him a Heavenly Estate key fragment, and granted him authority over the trials.
• Lin Heng lowered Liuyun Lan and Chen Yulin's challenges and forced Miao Jingkong and Lin Xiao to become his servants through the Soul-Locking Pagoda.
• Lin Heng received Gods and Devils in One Thought, Five Elements Indestructible Armor, and Primordial Spiritual Qi before returning to the Qian Yuan Sect.
• Lin Heng investigated the Origin Soul Spirit's dangerous power and learned from Miao Jingkong and Lin Xiao about its rumored uses, an approaching upper-realm envoy, and the clans' oath against ascenders founding factions.

Lin Heng founded the Battle Heaven Pavilion, defied the Eight Great Imperial Clans, and led his forces into the Eighth Heaven to claim a place for the sect. After crushing the Dragon Flame Sect and crippling Yan Lie, he faced three arena battles arranged by the Fire Clan to weaken his forces.

• Lin Heng founded the Battle Heaven Pavilion with an army of powerful disciples, and Sun Yuan killed the Nine Bends Tower’s leader and Yan Lan when they challenged the sect.
• Lin Heng defeated Yan Tianxin, securing the pavilion’s place in the Nine Heavens, then negotiated with Yan Lin for four Origin swords in exchange for helping his Fire Clan branch seize power.
• Lin Heng awakened Aba, the Origin Soul Spirit, and used it to turn fake Origin Veins into real ones before traveling to the Eighth Heaven with Sun Yuan, Situ Jiannan, Ao Lie, and three thousand disciples.
• Lin Heng attacked the Fire Clan-backed Dragon Flame Sect, where Sun Yuan killed its members and Lin Heng defeated Yan Lie, then crippled him after Yan Lie injured Situ Jiannan.
• Yan Feng proposed three arena matches to decide whether the Battle Heaven Pavilion could claim the Dragon Flame Sect’s territory, and Ao Lie accepted the challenge.
• At Firmament Hall, Xiao Wuyu warned Lin Heng that the arena battles were meant to weaken the Ascenders before the War of the Foreign Domain.
• Yan Lang ordered Yan Feng to use the Turtle Field Clan’s secret art if two other clans failed to defeat Battle Heaven Pavilion, while Lin Heng prepared his forces and ordered Ao Lie to leave no opponents alive.