Recaps

Bai Wuya explained the Vast Sea Saint Dynasty’s rise and collapse, including the mysterious disappearance of its Saint King, and revealed that its ruins and treasures lay within the soon-to-open Vast Sea Secret Realm. Since the Ultimate Intent Life-Extension Pill meant Bai Wuya would stay behind, Lin Xuan agreed to lead the Supreme Institute’s expedition and hoped to find his disciples there.

• Bai Wuya explained that the Vast Sea Saint Dynasty had once ruled the Eastern Continent and Endless Sea, with more than ten Saint Realm cultivators, two Great Saints, and a Saint King.
• Bai Wuya described how the Saint King’s mysterious disappearance led to infighting, the deaths of both Great Saints, and the dynasty’s collapse.
• Lin Xuan learned that the Vast Sea Secret Realm held the dynasty’s ruins and opportunities, and that cultivators faced no cultivation restrictions entering it.
• Bai Wuya said he would remain behind after taking the Ultimate Intent Life-Extension Pill and asked Lin Xuan to visit the secret realm with the Primordial Holy Heaven’s contingent.
• Lin Xuan agreed to take the Supreme Institute and resolved to pursue the secret realm’s opportunities and search for his disciples.

As the Vast Sea Secret Realm’s opening drew near, cultivators across the Eastern Continent prepared to seek its opportunities. Yuan Ying was appointed to lead the Profound Heaven Holy Land’s party, then met with his clan’s ancestor, where he boasted of his strength.

• The Nine Profundities Heavenly Sect’s sect master told Ji Linyuan and other prodigies about the Vast Sea Secret Realm, and Ji Linyuan agreed to go seek an opportunity for the Ancient Profound Alliance.
• Li Fufeng agreed to enter the secret realm with her senior sister, eager to test a cultivation method she had recently comprehended.
• The Holy Lord of Profound Heaven appointed Yuan Ying to lead the Profound Heaven Holy Land’s expedition and encouraged him to claim its opportunities.
• Yuan Ying promised that no rival forces would dare contend with the Profound Heaven Holy Land in the secret realm.
• The Yuan Clan Saint Clan’s ancestor summoned Yuan Ying, asked about the appointment, and heard him claim that none of the Holy Land’s Half-Saints could match him.

Yuan Ying dismissed the threat posed by the Lin Clan remnants and received a soul-stabilizing pill as he prepared for the Vast Sea Secret Realm. In Luo Heaven Domain, Wu Liang faced a forced contest for the Chongming Bird clan’s Demon Saint seat and turned his thoughts to the approaching secret realm and its ties to his clan.

• Yuan Ying told the Yuan Clan Saint Clan ancestor that there was no news of the Lin Clan remnants, and the two treated the survivors as no threat.
• Yuan Ying offered to celebrate the ancestor’s three-thousandth birthday, and the ancestor gave him a soul-stabilizing pill and urged him to consolidate his Half-Saint foundation for the Vast Sea Secret Realm.
• Holy Spirits and demons gathered in the Chongming Bird clan’s Saint City as rumors spread that the old Demon Saint was near death and two young masters were competing to succeed him.
• Members of the Chongming Bird clan mocked Wu Liang as an impure-blooded outsider, while Wu Liang dreaded the succession contest and the danger posed by either elder brother’s victory.
• Wu Liang looked over the crowded city, recognized that the Vast Sea Secret Realm had drawn the Holy Spirits, and recalled its connection to the Chongming Bird clan.

Wu Liang reflected on the Chongming Bird Clan’s succession struggle and the Demon Saint inheritance hidden in the newly opened Vast Sea Secret Realm. At the banquet, he endured scorn and isolation, restrained his anger, and quietly longed to return to the Sword Pavilion and see its pavilion master again.

• Wu Liang realized that the Demon Saint inheritance in the Vast Sea Secret Realm could decide who succeeded his dying imperial father, but he feared he lacked the strength to claim it.
• Wu Liang arrived at the celestial palace banquet, where Holy Spirits had gathered to support one of the three Chongming Bird heirs.
• Wu Liang found his banquet section nearly empty as clansmen and guests favored Wu Huan and Wu Lie, whose strength and pure blood made them more popular candidates.
• Guests mocked Wu Liang’s mixed-blood heritage and weak cultivation, and Wu Liang’s killing intent rose as he remembered the years Gong Yang had sealed him away.
• Wu Liang’s two guardian elders restrained him and urged him not to cause trouble in front of the Demon Saint, so he suppressed his anger and drank alone.
• Wu Liang admitted to himself that he missed his carefree days in the Sword Pavilion and wondered when he would see the pavilion master again.

Wu Liang’s banquet turned against him when the seventh elder sided with Wu Lie, who mocked Wu Liang’s mixed blood and weak prospects in the struggle to become Demon Saint. The eldest young lord, Wu Huan, then arrived with a group of humans identified as the Yuan Clan Saint Clan, leaving the hall stunned.

• Wu Liang noticed that the seventh elder had not arrived and worried that his plans were unraveling.
• Wu Lie arrived with Feng Yan and the seventh elder, revealing that she had joined his side.
• Wu Lie taunted Wu Liang, while other guests insulted the third young lord and his supporters fell silent.
• Wu Huan entered alongside an imposing human and several other humans, whose robes identified them as the Yuan Clan Saint Clan of the Profound Heaven Holy Land.

After Wu Huan’s allies from the Yuan Clan Saint Clan intimidated the Demon Race leaders, the chapter turned to the Nine Luminaries Saint Sect, which faced destruction after its ancestor’s death. Grand Elder Pei Yunyan told the despairing elders that the Primordial Holy Heaven would send support, leaving the sect to wait for its only hope.

• Wu Lie and Wu Liang realized that Wu Huan had won the support of the formidable Yuan Clan Saint Clan.
• After the Nine Luminaries Ancestor fell, the Nine Luminaries Saint Sect feared that the Ancient Mystic Saint Sect and Heaven Uniting Saint Sect would destroy it.
• The elders debated moving the sect or disbanding, but looked to Pei Yunyan, the sect’s strongest remaining cultivator, for a decision.
• Pei Yunyan announced that the Primordial Holy Heaven would send powerful cultivators to support the Nine Luminaries Saint Sect and take over its affairs.
• The elders doubted that the Primordial Holy Heaven could send enough strength to deter the two rival sects, while Pei Yunyan hoped its support would include a Saint Realm cultivator.

Lin Xuan arrived at the Nine Luminaries Saint Sect with three disciples, but the sect’s elders and saintess Pei Yushuang mistook him for an inadequate envoy and prepared for disaster. While Lin Xuan planned to bring the sect under Primordial Holy Heaven’s control and confront its rivals, he noticed Pei Yushuang had a rare Mandate of Heaven and physique.

• The Nine Luminaries Saint Sect’s elders and disciples gathered to welcome Primordial Holy Heaven’s envoys, then despaired when Lin Xuan and three young women arrived.
• Grand Elder Pei Yunyan judged the visitors too weak to protect the sect, left reception to her niece Pei Yushuang, and went to seek another solution.
• Lin Xuan recalled that the old academy master intended to take over the Nine Luminaries Saint Sect and use it as a foothold for expanding across the Desolate Domain.
• Pei Yushuang escorted Lin Xuan and his companions to their lodgings, then hurried away to prepare for the battle she expected to lose.
• Lin Xuan noticed a system notification identifying Pei Yushuang’s Gold seventh-grade Mandate of Heaven and Nine Mysteries Sacred Physique.

Pei Yushuang feared the Nine Luminaries Saint Sect would fall to the Ancient Mystic Saint Sect and Heaven Uniting Saint Sect, while Lin Xuan calmly promised that she and the sect would be safe. After Pei Yushuang sensed what seemed to be a sword domain near Cloud Summit Peak, the enemy forces arrived and the sect prepared to fight.

• Nine Luminaries Saint Sect disciples who tried to flee were ambushed and killed, while Pei Yushuang stayed behind and worried over the sect’s fate.
• Lin Xuan offered to take Pei Yushuang as his disciple, but she declined and did not believe his assurance that the sect would survive.
• Pei Yushuang practiced swordsmanship at night and briefly sensed a sword domain near Cloud Summit Peak, then dismissed it as an illusion.
• Pei Yunyan overruled the elders and committed the sect’s resources to building a defensive grand array.
• The defensive array was completed as the flying boats of the Ancient Mystic Saint Sect and Heaven Uniting Saint Sect arrived.

The Heaven Uniting Saint Sect and Ancient Mystic Saint Sect brought a vast force to destroy the Nine Luminaries Saint Sect, whose Grand Elder Pei Yunyan hoped its protective array would hold them off. The elders betrayed the sect and destroyed the array, leaving Pei Yunyan facing its imminent fall.

• The two sects’ deputy sect masters led a fleet of cultivators to the Nine Luminaries Saint Sect, intending to seize its territory and annihilate it.
• Pei Yunyan warned that the Nine Luminaries Grand Array could withstand the attackers unless a Saint Realm cultivator arrived, and ordered the elders to activate it.
• The elders refused, despairing that the array would only delay their deaths and blaming Pei Yunyan for trusting Primordial Holy Heaven.
• The elders tore open the grand array from within and begged the invading sects to spare their lives in exchange for becoming slaves.
• Pei Yunyan called the elders traitors, but the second elder defended their surrender and blamed the Nine Luminaries Ancestor for leading the sect to ruin.

The Nine Luminaries Saint Sect faced destruction as its elders accepted slavery to survive and Pei Yunyan prepared to fight the two invading sects. Lin Xuan appeared from Cloud Summit Peak and struck down both deputy sect masters, leaving everyone staring at him in shock.

• The Heaven Uniting Saint Sect and Ancient Mystic Saint Sect offered to spare the Nine Luminaries Saint Sect if its people accepted slave brands and served them.
• Pei Yunyan rejected the terms, but several elders surrendered and willingly received slave brands.
• The Ancient Mystic Saint Sect and Heaven Uniting Saint Sect deputy sect masters attacked Pei Yunyan and the remaining Nine Luminaries Saint Sect disciples after the three breaths ended.
• Lin Xuan sent Sword Qi from Cloud Summit Peak, overwhelmed both deputy sect masters' counterattacks, and sent them crashing to the ground.
• Lin Xuan emerged in the air with his longsword as the people of the three sects watched in astonishment.

Lin Xuan confronted the Ancient Mystic Saint Sect and the Heaven Uniting Saint Sect after wounding their two Half-Saint vice sect masters, then faced their two Saint Realm ancestors. He rejected Pei Yunyan’s plea to protect Pei Yushuang and openly challenged the two sects, drawing his sword as they turned their killing intent on him.

• Lin Xuan’s single sword strike severely wounded two Half-Saint vice sect masters, stunning the Nine Luminaries Saint Sect elders and Pei Yunyan.
• Pei Yushuang sensed a terrifying sword intent in Lin Xuan’s strike and wondered if he had attained a sword domain.
• Two Saint Realm ancestors emerged from the enemy sects’ flying boats and pressed their presence against Lin Xuan and the Nine Luminaries Saint Sect disciples.
• Pei Yunyan secretly begged Lin Xuan to take Pei Yushuang to safety and offered the sect’s hidden treasury, but Lin Xuan ignored her request.
• Lin Xuan declared that he would fight the two sects and demanded to see how many people they had for him to kill.
• The two Saint Realm ancestors abandoned their hesitation and focused their killing intent on Lin Xuan, who drew his sword.

Lin Xuan used his Sword Domain to drive back two Saint Realm cultivators and force the Ancient Mystic Saint Sect and Heaven Uniting Saint Sect to retreat from the Nine Luminaries Saint Sect. The sect survived, while the traitorous elders were left behind.

• Lin Xuan's sword strike shattered the enemy flying vessel and forced the two Saint Realm cultivators backward without making him move.
• The Ancient Mystic Saint Sect elder recognized Lin Xuan's Sword Domain, and both ancestors realized they could not safely continue fighting.
• The two ancestors called the confrontation a misunderstanding and fled with their forces, vowing to stay away from the Nine Luminaries Saint Sect.
• The retreating sects took their gravely wounded Half-Saints but deliberately abandoned the elders who had defected.
• The Nine Luminaries Saint Sect disciples realized they had survived because of Lin Xuan, while the abandoned traitorous elders regretted their betrayal.

Lin Xuan executed the Nine Luminaries Saint Sect elders who had betrayed their sect and accepted Pei Yushuang as his ninth disciple in the Sword Pavilion. As Pei Yunyan began restoring order to the sect, Lin Xuan checked a special rebate from his system.

• Lin Xuan rejected the traitors' pleas for mercy and killed every elder and disciple who had defected to the Primordial Slaying Alliance.
• Lin Xuan offered Pei Yushuang a chance to visit him at the Primordial Holy Heaven, and she immediately knelt and asked to become his disciple.
• Lin Xuan accepted Pei Yushuang, named her the Sword Pavilion's ninth disciple, and gave her the Half-Saint-level Pure Source Great Dao Treasure Scroll.
• Qu Youmeng and the other senior sisters welcomed Pei Yushuang while Pei Yunyan began organizing the damaged Nine Luminaries Saint Sect.
• Lin Xuan checked his system rebate and found that the returned item was unusual.

Lin Xuan received a one-use Summoning Card that could call forth a Great Saint, giving him more confidence about entering the Vast Sea Secret Realm. Meanwhile, Zeng Mengyi and Zeng Mengyu stayed at the Lin Household, where they met Lin Xuan and later traveled alongside him and Lin Fang toward the secret realm.

• Lin Xuan received a Summoning Card that could summon a Great Saint-level powerhouse to fight for him.
• Zeng Mengyi defended her affection for Lin Fang when Elder Zhou questioned why she preferred him to the Liu Household's young master.
• Zeng Mengyi, Zeng Mengyu, and Elder Zhou saw Lin Xuan arrive at the Lin Household and wondered about his identity and standing.
• Several days later, Zeng Mengyi traveled with Lin Fang aboard a flying boat and learned that Lin Xuan was headed the same way, though Lin Fang would not reveal their destination.
• Zeng Mengyi teased Lin Fang about adding another marriage tie between their families while Zeng Mengyu watched Lin Xuan with curiosity.

Lin Xuan encouraged Lin Fang after Zeng Mengyi’s family left, then continued toward the Vast Sea Secret Realm. In the Sword Ruins, Su Lianxin and Lin Ling obtained medicine to heal Lin Ling and a superior-grade Emperor Weapon.

• Lin Xuan learned that Lin Fang had advanced to the Emperor Realm and approved of his relationship with Zeng Mengyi.
• Zeng Mengyi and Lin Fang parted when the Zeng Household arrived, while Zeng Mengyi’s father treated Lin Fang with disdain.
• Lin Xuan told Lin Fang to reveal his identity in the future and reassured him that the Lin Household’s children did not need to prove their worth to others.
• Su Lianxin and Lin Ling broke the formation in a sword tomb and found spirit medicine for Lin Ling’s injuries and a superior-grade Emperor Weapon.
• Su Lianxin reflected that she missed her master and sometimes saw a trace of him in Lin Ling’s face.

Su Lianxin and Lin Ling opened the Broken Sword Ancient Emperor’s sword tomb and prepared to claim its treasures, but Shui Lianyi of the Heavenly Nether Sword Sect confronted them and demanded they surrender everything. Su Lianxin refused, setting up a clash over the legacy.

• Su Lianxin recalled how she had been separated from her master, taken refuge with the Duan Household, and secretly cultivated while searching for her companions.
• Su Lianxin met Lin Ling in a dangerous sword tomb, and the two became close friends as they explored more tombs together.
• Su Lianxin and Lin Ling overcame the trials of the Broken Sword Ancient Emperor’s sword tomb and found its cultivation resources and sword scriptures.
• Shui Lianyi arrived with Heavenly Nether Sword Sect members and demanded that Su Lianxin and Lin Ling hand over the treasures.
• Su Lianxin refused, declaring that the ownerless treasures belonged to whoever could claim them.

Su Lianxin stood against Shui Lianyi and Elder Dai to protect the injured Lin Ling, but Elder Dai’s Ancient Emperor pressure forced them to surrender the sword tomb’s treasures. After the Heavenly Nether Sword Sect left, Lin Ling explained that she had chosen survival because she was used to being robbed of opportunities.

• Su Lianxin confronted Shui Lianyi and revealed her perfected seventh-level Sword Intent while shielding Lin Ling.
• Elder Dai threatened the women with his Ancient Emperor pressure and demanded the Emperor Weapon and sword tomb treasures.
• Lin Ling surrendered their spirit medicines, Emperor Weapon, and inheritance, then asked to leave with Su Lianxin.
• Shui Lianyi mocked the women, ordered them to scram, and led the Heavenly Nether Sword Sect away.
• Su Lianxin questioned Lin Ling’s decision, and Lin Ling said she had endured similar losses before and valued staying alive.

Lin Ling reflected on the years of persecution she had endured while hiding from the Profound Heaven Holy Land, and Su Lianxin offered to seek her master’s help. Lin Ling refused to risk involving her friend, then left her a share of the sword tomb’s resources and arranged to meet again in the Vast Sea Secret Realm.

• Lin Ling recalled repeatedly surrendering opportunities and fleeing danger to stay alive and find her missing family.
• Su Lianxin told Lin Ling that her master could help her, but Lin Ling refused to reveal her troubles because her enemy was the Profound Heaven Holy Land.
• Lin Ling urged Su Lianxin to attend the upcoming Vast Sea Secret Realm with the Duan Household and said she would go separately because her identity was special.
• Lin Ling gave Su Lianxin a Storage Bag containing Spirit Stones and pills she had kept from the sword tomb, then disappeared.
• Su Lianxin searched for Lin Ling, found she was gone, and vowed to meet her in the Vast Sea Secret Realm.

At the Vast Sea Secret Realm entrance, the Heavenly Demon Wolf Race targeted the Primordial Holy Heaven after its Saint Realm ancestor sensed the group was vulnerable. The Primordial Holy Heaven’s cultivators were crushed beneath his pressure, while the Divine Firmament Holy Heaven’s old saint teacher worried that no one could protect them without Bai Wuya.

• Cultivators from many realms gathered at the Vast Sea Secret Realm, where the Primordial Holy Heaven’s two institute heads had advised their party to keep a low profile.
• The Heavenly Demon Wolf Race arrived, led by a Saint Realm ancestor, and its presence frightened the human cultivators.
• The Heavenly Demon Wolf Ancestor glared at the Divine Firmament Holy Heaven’s old saint teacher, who met his gaze without fear, preventing the wolf demons from immediately attacking the crowd.
• The Heavenly Demon Wolf Ancestor turned his attention to the Primordial Holy Heaven and unleashed Saint Realm pressure upon its party.
• The pressure forced the two Half-Saint institute heads back and injured some students, while the Heavenly Demon Wolf Ancestor showed no sign of stopping.
• The Divine Firmament Holy Heaven’s old saint teacher feared the Primordial Holy Heaven could not withstand the attack with Bai Wuya absent.

The Heavenly Demon Wolf Ancestor targeted Primordial Holy Heaven, striking down its two institute heads while the surrounding Human Race forces refused to intervene. As he launched a second attack, the wolf-claw froze in midair, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• The Divine Firmament Holy Heaven sage master and other cultivators stayed silent as the Wolf Ancestor singled out Primordial Holy Heaven.
• The head of the Primordial Beginning Institute tried to reason with the Wolf Ancestor, who dismissed him and attacked before he could finish speaking.
• The heads of the Primordial Beginning Institute and Heaven-Reaching Institute used their life-saving treasures to block the Saint Realm strike, but were wounded and their treasures shattered.
• The Wolf Ancestor mocked the two institute heads and prepared a second strike while the surrounding cultivators chose not to help.
• The Wolf Ancestor's second wolf-claw attack stopped in midair, and he could not force it down.

Lin Xuan arrived in time to save Primordial Holy Heaven’s academy masters and students from the Heavenly Demon Wolf Ancestor, then overwhelmed the Wolf Ancestor with a single sword strike. Those present realized that Lin Xuan was a powerful Saint Realm expert, possibly at the middle stage.

• The old sage master from Divine Firmament Holy Heaven searched for whoever had blocked the Wolf Ancestor’s attack, and Lin Xuan appeared above Primordial Holy Heaven’s people.
• Lin Xuan confronted the Wolf Ancestor for attacking the academy masters and unleashed his Sword Domain and sword formation.
• The Wolf Ancestor tried to claim the attack had been a misunderstanding, but Lin Xuan refused to listen and struck him with his sword.
• Lin Xuan sent the Wolf Ancestor crashing to the ground, badly injured, while remaining largely unharmed.
• The gathered onlookers and the old sage master realized Primordial Holy Heaven had a second Saint Realm expert whose strength might have reached the middle stage.

Lin Xuan overwhelmed the Wolf Ancestor of the Heavenly Demon Wolf Race at the Vast Sea Secret Realm and cut down the three Half-Saint wolves who tried to intervene. He rejected the Wolf Ancestor’s threat and declared that only one of them would survive.

• The Wolf Ancestor blustered at Lin Xuan after being struck, while Wan Renshan and the Ten Saints watched in awe as Lin Xuan protected Primordial Holy Heaven.
• Lin Xuan attacked again, forcing the Wolf Ancestor to reveal his silver-wolf true form and use a crescent-moon strike to counter the sword light.
• Three Half-Saint demon wolves rushed Lin Xuan to save the Wolf Ancestor, but one slash killed all three and swept through the surrounding wolf pack.
• Lin Xuan left the Wolf Ancestor badly wounded and missing an arm, while the Heavenly Demon Wolf Race suffered heavy casualties.
• The Wolf Ancestor asked whether Lin Xuan meant to fight his race to the death, and Lin Xuan answered that the Wolf Ancestor would die while he lived.

Lin Xuan killed a Saint Realm ancestor of the Heavenly Demon Wolf Race, then led Primordial Holy Heaven into the newly opened Vast Sea Secret Realm. Cang Xuan Holy Heaven arrived afterward and discovered the battle’s aftermath, unaware of who had caused it.

• Lin Xuan killed the Heavenly Demon Wolf Race’s Saint Realm ancestor, shocking the witnesses and earning his disciples’ admiration.
• The Vast Sea Secret Realm opened, and Lin Xuan led his disciples and Primordial Holy Heaven inside as the other cultivators followed.
• Cang Xuan Holy Heaven arrived after most cultivators had entered and found the traces of the battle and the Heavenly Demon Wolf Race’s fallen members.
• Li Fufeng asked Saint Master Lanling about the Heavenly Demon Wolf Race, and Lanling explained their strength and warned that the killing would provoke a deadly feud.

The dean of Cang Xuan Holy Heaven concluded that a Saint Realm expert from the Heavenly Demon Wolf Race had fallen before the group arrived, frightening the students and teachers. Inside the Vast Sea Secret Realm, Lin Xuan found an empty island, then sensed a struggle and a familiar presence on another island.

• The dean of Cang Xuan Holy Heaven identified signs of a battle and declared that a Saint Realm expert, likely from the Heavenly Demon Wolf Race, had recently fallen.
• Li Fufeng, her teacher, and the other members of Cang Xuan Holy Heaven were shocked and considered turning back before entering the secret realm.
• Lin Xuan entered the Vast Sea Secret Realm and sensed that its spiritual power was far richer than that of the outside world.
• Lin Xuan found that his island held no opportunities, and his treasure-seeking compass revealed almost nothing nearby.
• Lin Xuan flew to a larger island and sensed intense spiritual power fluctuations, suggesting a struggle over a treasure, along with the presence of someone he knew.

Lin Xuan encountered Zeng Mengyu’s expedition in the Vast Sea Secret Realm and declined her offer to travel together. When Primordial Holy Heaven experts arrived, one of them recognized Lin Xuan as the Academy Master, leaving Elder Qi stunned.

• Lin Xuan arrived after the Zeng Household expedition had seized a treasure and reunited with Zeng Mengyu.
• Zeng Mengyu invited Lin Xuan to explore with her group, but Elder Qi refused because the Zeng Household patriarch had warned them to keep her away from him.
• Lin Xuan began to decline Zeng Mengyu’s invitation, then noticed several powerful figures approaching from the west.
• Elder Qi and the Zeng Household members recognized the newcomers as Primordial Holy Heaven experts and relaxed, but grew anxious when the experts stopped overhead.
• A holy teacher addressed Lin Xuan as the Academy Master, leaving Elder Qi rooted in shock.