Recaps

Lin Yu returned to the mortal world after more than ten years away and found Ren Family Town changed and the mortuary abandoned. He reached Maoshan and reunited with Uncle Nine, who had been serving as acting sect leader; Uncle Nine invited him to inspect how Maoshan had been managed.

• Lin Yu received Yang Jian’s permission to visit home, gathered the little fox and the boy, and bid farewell to the Six Sages of Mount Mei.
• Lin Yu returned to the mortal world and discovered that more than ten years had passed and the mortuary stood deserted.
• Lin Yu learned from an elderly resident that Japanese invaders had damaged Ren Family Town, while the Ren family had moved away before the invasion.
• Lin Yu flew to Maoshan, where Uncle Nine recognized him and welcomed him into the Heavenly Master Mansion.
• Uncle Nine explained that Maoshan’s elders had appointed him acting sect leader after Lin Yu ascended, then offered to show Lin Yu how he had managed the mountain.

Lin Yu returned to Maoshan to visit Uncle Nine and his former fellow disciples, while keeping his Heavenly Master identity secret from most of the sect. After reuniting with Qiu Sheng and Wen Cai, he visited Four Eyes at his quiet Daoist school.

• Uncle Nine told Lin Yu that Qiu Sheng and Wen Cai had completed their training, taken disciples, and opened Daoist schools, while Four Eyes and Chin Hok had retired together.
• Lin Yu reassured Uncle Nine that he had returned with permission from the True Lord and had no urgent mission, then asked to keep his return private and avoid reclaiming the Heavenly Master position.
• Lin Yu spent several days discussing the Dao with Uncle Nine and the former Heavenly Masters, gaining new insight into his own cultivation.
• Qiu Sheng and Wen Cai returned to Maoshan and joyfully reunited with Lin Yu.
• Lin Yu traveled to Four Eyes' Daoist school and surprised his aged martial uncle, who wondered whether he was dreaming or about to enter the immortal realm.

Lin Yu returned to visit Four Eyes and Chin Hok, then traveled to the Southern Border to repay his debt to the Nine Palaces and ask after Ayi. Bai Shan told him that Ayi had become a prodigy and claimed the position of Ninth Palace master.

• Lin Yu reunited with Four Eyes and Chin Hok, met Jia Le and Qingqing's son Huzi, and gave the child a protective spirit jade.
• Lin Yu spent several days with his martial uncles and Master Yixiu before setting off for the Southern Border.
• Lin Yu contacted Bai Shan through the Nine Palaces' secret realm and appeared in the forbidden area to visit him.
• Lin Yu asked Bai Shan about the Nine Palaces and Ayi, and Bai Shan praised Ayi's talent and said she had become Ninth Palace master in just over ten years.

Lin Yu visited the Ninth Palace, learned that Ayi had become its respected palace master, and left her a jade slip of Gu Dao insights without meeting her. As he traveled through the mortal world, he comprehended the Dao of Creation, broke through his stalled realm, and prepared to return to Guanjiangkou to investigate the other four Qi.

• Bai Shan told Lin Yu that Ayi had become the Ninth Palace's palace master and often asked for news of him.
• Lin Yu declined to meet Ayi and gave Bai Shan a jade slip of his deductions about Gu Arts and exotic insects as an apology.
• Lin Yu vanished from the Ninth Palace, while Ayi briefly sensed something unusual before returning to her reports.
• Lin Yu wandered through the mortal world and reached a sea of clouds, where the Innate Xirang and his Pure Yang Immortal Power resonated.
• Lin Yu comprehended the Dao of Creation and broke through the realm barrier as Uncle Nine watched over him.
• Lin Yu thanked Uncle Nine and said he would return to the True Lord's Daoist sanctuary to experiment and search for the other four Qi.

Lin Yu returned to Guanjiangkou, gained the True Lord’s tacit approval for his experiment, and successfully created a clone through the Dao of Creation. With twelve clones ready to search the myriad worlds for Innate Five Elements treasures, he spent his points on teleportation talismans and sent them out for about eight years.

• Lin Yu reported his journey and planned experiment to the True Lord, who approved and invited him to exchange a hundred moves at any time.
• Lin Yu used Wu Earth Essence Qi, Immortal jade, and his power of creation to form a human embryo, then fused part of his divine sense into it to create a clone.
• Lin Yu confirmed that he could share the clone’s senses and control it, and that the clones’ consciousnesses came entirely from his own.
• Lin Yu decided to search the myriad worlds for Innate Five Elements supreme treasures and created eleven more clones, bringing their number to twelve.
• Lin Yu discovered that his points could not fund ten years of travel for all twelve clones, so he spent his entire balance on teleportation talismans for roughly eight years.

Lin Yu sent twelve ordinary clones to different group members’ worlds to cultivate and search for the supreme treasures of the five elements. The clones arrived safely, and their hosts discovered that they were not the original Lin Yu.

• Lin Yu warned his twelve clones to act carefully, gave each eight years’ worth of Teleportation Talismans, and sent them to the group members’ worlds.
• After the clones departed, Lin Yu found that he could sense only whether they were alive, since their connection had weakened under the other worlds’ laws.
• Lin Yu No. 1 arrived in Su Xiaoxiao’s world, proved his identity with a golden rule, and said he would stay eight years to cultivate and seek the five-element treasures.
• Lin Yu No. 2 appeared in Huang Rong’s world, where she initially mistook him for an ordinary person; Lin Yu No. 3 likewise arrived in Xiao Yan’s world and was recognized as ordinary.
• Lin Yu No. 4 met Ning Caichen near Lanruo Temple, while Lin Yu No. 5 was welcomed by Xu Xian and Bai Suzhen, who identified him as a clone.
• Lin Yu No. 5 told Xu Xian, Bai Suzhen, and Xiaoqing that he had come to seek the five-element treasures and suspected the original had sent ordinary clones so they could learn other worlds’ cultivation systems.

Lin Yu (No. 6), Lin Yu (No. 7), and Lin Yu (No. 8) arrived in different worlds and were welcomed by Wong Wing-fat, Yan Lingji, and Zhang Sanfeng. Lin Yu (No. 12) landed in Zhao Yan’s world through a faulty lottery, where Zhao Yan mistook him for a useless prize and Lin Yu played along as a visitor from the heavens.

• Wong Wing-fat welcomed Lin Yu (No. 6) and agreed to let him stay at his joss paper shop for eight years.
• Yan Lingji took Lin Yu (No. 7) to her palace and offered to protect him while he searched for treasures.
• Zhang Sanfeng welcomed Lin Yu (No. 8) and led him toward a bamboo cottage at Mount Wudang.
• Zhao Yan triggered a Supreme Lottery Ticket after cursing his Sign-In System and drew a mysterious visitor from the heavens.
• Lin Yu (No. 12) appeared in an abandoned factory, and Zhao Yan angrily complained that the system had drawn an ordinary mortal instead of a treasure.
• Lin Yu (No. 12) learned about Zhao Yan’s history with the system and introduced himself as the visitor Zhao Yan had drawn.

Lin Yu (No. 12) survived an attack by the Golden Bull Martial Arts School and proved useful to Zhao Yan, who killed the school’s leader and took him along. Lin Yu (No. 12) decided to stay near Zhao Yan, whom he believed was this world’s child of fortune, while Lin Yu’s original body discussed the clone’s expenses with Huang Rong and Su Xiaoxiao.

• Zhao Yan abandoned Lin Yu (No. 12) when the Golden Bull Martial Arts School’s fighters arrived at the factory.
• Lin Yu (No. 12) dodged A San’s saber, disarmed him, and killed him with his own weapon.
• Zhao Yan ambushed and killed the school’s leader, then killed the remaining martial artists as they fled.
• Zhao Yan recognized Lin Yu (No. 12) as potentially useful and led him out through a concealed exit.
• Lin Yu (No. 12) planned to remain by Zhao Yan’s side to find treasures, while Huang Rong asked Lin Yu’s original body to repay the clone’s food and drink expenses.

Su Xiaoxiao discovered that Lin Yu (No. 1) had reached the fourth tier and asked him for cultivation help. As his rule power let him rapidly advance and help her break through, the group heard about the benefits, and Huang Rong urged Lin Yu (No. 2) to cultivate.

• Su Xiaoxiao found Lin Yu (No. 1)'s fourth-tier cultivation in the Chat Group panel and begged him to share his insights.
• Lin Yu (No. 1) meditated and drew power from the hundreds of millions of cultivators practicing the rule he embodied, rapidly advancing to the second tier.
• Lin Yu (No. 1) gave Su Xiaoxiao a thread of rule power, which helped her break through her bottleneck.
• Su Xiaoxiao announced in the Chat Group that Lin Yu's clone could grant benefits through meditation, prompting Huang Rong and Xiao Yan to react.
• Huang Rong grabbed Lin Yu (No. 2) and urged him to cultivate.

Lin Yu (number two) discussed the limits of martial arts and cultivation with Huang Rong, while Lin Yu (number twelve) and Zhao Yan infiltrated an abandoned hospital to seek spirit jade. They found the Golden Bull Martial Arts School attacking a restriction around what appeared to be Old Man Black Wind’s inheritance.

• Lin Yu’s original body warned the group that Su Xiaoxiao’s success came from her world’s special system and could not be repeated elsewhere.
• Huang Rong asked Lin Yu (number two) about the peak of martial arts and cultivation manuals, and he described a possible Heavenly Human Realm while explaining that her world lacked spiritual Qi.
• Zhao Yan brought Lin Yu (number twelve) into the abandoned Jiangcheng hospital, explaining that he sought spirit jade to attempt a breakthrough to the Martial Venerable Realm.
• Zhao Yan and Lin Yu (number twelve) avoided traps and bodies as they made their way toward the hospital’s central emergency department.
• They saw the Golden Bull Martial Arts School attacking an earthy-yellow dome that enclosed a skeleton, an old wooden box glowing with spirit jade, and a manual.

Lin Yu looted the Golden Bull Martial Arts School disciples while Zhao Yan and two Great Grandmasters raced for Old Man Black Wind’s inheritance. Old Man Black Wind’s Bone-Eroding Yin Fire trapped the two Great Grandmasters, leaving Zhao Yan to wait for them to weaken and the brothers preparing to sacrifice their arms.

• Zhao Yan shattered the barrier and killed or scattered the Golden Bull Martial Arts School disciples blocking his path.
• Lin Yu secretly searched the fallen inner disciples and found the Golden Bull Art, pills, money, weapons, and other valuables.
• The two Great Grandmasters reached for Old Man Black Wind’s box and secret manual, but Bone-Eroding Yin Fire burst from the skeleton and engulfed their arms.
• Zhao Yan arrived and watched as the trapped Great Grandmasters struggled, planning to take the treasures once they weakened.
• The senior brother convinced his junior brother that they had to cut off their arms to survive, and the junior brother agreed.

Zhao Yan killed the two Great Grandmasters and took the wooden box and Martial Venerable’s secret manual before leaving the hospital. Elsewhere, Lin Yu found and began studying the Primordial Unity Ki Technique, discovering that his body’s Qi and blood held a hidden power.

• Zhao Yan tormented the injured Golden Mace Great Grandmaster and Water-Parting Spike Grandmaster, preventing them from severing their arms or escaping.
• The Water-Parting Spike Grandmaster tried to destroy the Martial Venerable’s secret manual, but Zhao Yan knocked his weapon aside and killed him.
• The Golden Mace Great Grandmaster charged Zhao Yan in grief, and Zhao Yan killed him as well.
• Zhao Yan checked Old Man Black Wind’s remains, took the wooden box and secret manual, searched the corpses for pills and money, and left.
• Lin Yu studied the Primordial Unity Ki Technique he had found buried near a dead cultivator and compared it with the Golden Bull Art.
• Lin Yu followed the technique’s introductory method and sensed pure Qi and blood flowing through his body, with an unfamiliar power hidden within it.

Lin Yu cultivated the Primordial Unity Ki Technique for a day and night while Zhao Yan guarded him, then discovered that his Qi and blood continued circulating automatically. In Huang Rong's world, Huang Rong promised to protect Lin Yu (No. 2), and Guo Jing arrived in her courtyard.

• Lin Yu cultivated the Primordial Unity Ki Technique until his Qi and blood flowed smoothly and his physical body grew stronger.
• Zhao Yan revealed that he had guarded Lin Yu for a day and night, then examined the technique and returned it after deciding it clashed with the Sunflower Manual.
• Zhao Yan took Lin Yu to his residence in an old district, where Lin Yu discovered that his Qi and blood circulated along the technique's path without his guidance.
• Zhao Yan noticed Lin Yu's increasingly refined presence and privately found him more interesting.
• Huang Rong told Lin Yu (No. 2) that she would protect him as the Beggar Clan leader.
• Guo Jing arrived at Huang Rong's courtyard, and she invited him inside.

Lin Yu met Guo Jing after Huang Rong introduced him as a displaced friend, and he won Guo Jing’s trust with a fabricated account of hardship. Later, Huang Rong confided that she and Guo Jing had become confidants rather than lovers, leaving Lin Yu to tease her about Guo Jing’s feelings.

• Guo Jing arrived and met Lin Yu, whom Huang Rong introduced as an old friend in need of shelter.
• Guo Jing believed Lin Yu’s story about disaster and oppression by a martial arts school, and offered to help him seek justice.
• Huang Rong urged Guo Jing to let Lin Yu rest first, and the three shared dinner before Guo Jing returned to his room.
• Huang Rong told Lin Yu that knowing the future while watching events unfold could be tormenting, and Lin Yu encouraged her to focus on choices at crucial moments.
• Huang Rong revealed that she and Guo Jing had become confidants rather than a couple, and Lin Yu suggested Guo Jing secretly loved her.

Lin Yu practiced basic exercises at dawn, then demonstrated an extraordinary ability to memorize martial arts after Guo Jing taught him several techniques. Guo Jing resolved to help Lin Yu overcome his late start, while Huang Rong teased him for getting so carried away.

• Lin Yu practiced basic punches and kicks in the courtyard, and Guo Jing questioned whether he had trained in martial arts before.
• Guo Jing warned that Lin Yu's late start would make mastering martial arts difficult, but offered to teach him moves after hearing about his memory.
• Lin Yu reproduced the Yue Maiden Sword Technique and another routine after seeing each once, astonishing Guo Jing.
• Guo Jing demonstrated the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms, and Lin Yu memorized those as well.
• Guo Jing praised Lin Yu as a genius and began considering ways to help him cultivate inner strength.
• Huang Rong came out and teased Guo Jing for acting like he was already establishing a school and taking disciples.

Lin Yu learned a Quanzhen health-nourishing formula from Guo Jing and showed an unusual ease in his first meditation session. After Guo Jing left, Lin Yu asked Huang Rong about strange places near Xiangyang in hopes of finding a clue to his goal, and she offered to investigate in exchange for a favor.

• Huang Rong cautioned Guo Jing that Lin Yu needed to build his foundation before learning advanced martial arts, so Guo Jing agreed to teach him a Quanzhen formula for nourishing his health.
• At breakfast, Guo Jing recited the formula to Lin Yu, who understood it after hearing it once.
• Lin Yu meditated in the courtyard and felt clearheaded and refreshed, while Guo Jing praised his progress and Huang Rong noticed his natural affinity with his surroundings.
• After Guo Jing left for a meeting with Lord Lü, Lin Yu told Huang Rong that finding his goal remained the main purpose of his trip.
• Lin Yu asked Huang Rong about unusual places near Xiangyang, and she mentioned Shennongjia and Blazing Sun Valley before offering to investigate for him in exchange for a favor.

Lin Yu taught Huang Rong to understand the Martial Dao by observing nature and harmonizing the body with the world. After Huang Rong demonstrated the Dog-Beating Staff Technique, Lin Yu began showing her how to give its moves a different spirit, and she watched in amazement.

• Huang Rong asked Lin Yu to repay her kindness, and he offered to discuss the Martial Dao with her in the bamboo grove.
• Lin Yu explained that the Dao could be understood through all things in nature and demonstrated how martial arts could follow the rhythms of heaven and earth.
• Huang Rong reflected on her training and asked Lin Yu to examine her Dog-Beating Staff Technique.
• Huang Rong demonstrated the staff technique, and Lin Yu praised her skill before showing how its familiar moves could embody the intent of mountains, rivers, and the earth.

Lin Yu showed Huang Rong how to infuse the Dog-Beating Staff Technique with a broader martial conception, and she began adapting it under his guidance. Guo Jing then left for the military camp after urgent news arrived, while Lin Yu hinted that he sought the power of a nation; elsewhere, Zhao Yan woke another Lin Yu to attack the Golden Bull Martial Arts School.

• Lin Yu demonstrated a powerful version of the Dog-Beating Staff Technique, and Huang Rong tried to incorporate its artistic conception into her own moves.
• Huang Rong proposed calling her adaptation the Dragon-Subduing and Tiger-Taming Stick Technique, and Lin Yu advised her to blend techniques according to her own nature.
• Lin Yu and Huang Rong exchanged martial arts ideas until Guo Jing returned with urgent orders from Lord Lü to report to the military camp.
• Guo Jing left for the camp, and Lin Yu told Huang Rong he wondered whether the power of a nation could help him find what he sought.
• At another location, Zhao Yan woke Lin Yu (Number Twelve) and set out with him to deal with the Golden Bull Martial Arts School.

Lin Yu and Zhao Yan attacked the Golden Bull Martial Arts School, which Zhao Yan had made an enemy of by stealing its treasured saber. Lin Yu drew the school’s attention by defeating four guards and smashing its plaque, while Zhao Yan slipped inside to fight its remaining experts.

• Zhao Yan led Lin Yu to the Golden Bull Martial Arts School and explained that he had stolen its treasured saber.
• Zhao Yan told Lin Yu to clear out the school’s patrolling disciples and create a distraction while he went inside to confront its remaining experts.
• Lin Yu charged into the training ground and knocked four armed disciples aside with four punches.
• Lin Yu kicked the school’s large plaque until it broke in two, prompting the guards to raise the alarm.
• Lin Yu slipped away into the neighboring shadows as the commotion spread through the school.

Lin Yu infiltrated the Golden Bull Martial Arts School amid the chaos and fought off its armed defenders, while Zhao Yan attacked the main building. After the school’s master and elders were reported injured and its defenses activated, Lin Yu raced for the perimeter.

• Zhao Yan watched Lin Yu’s distraction draw the school’s attention, then slipped inside by a route he had scouted.
• Lin Yu ambushed a five-man tactical squad in a pavilion, captured their gear, and used stun grenades to incapacitate them.
• Lin Yu threw four stun grenades at a stronger patrol and attacked its disoriented leader.
• A pillar of blood-colored light and blade Qi erupted from the main building as Zhao Yan damaged it and breached the energy shield.
• School fighters received orders to support the injured school master, Elder Sun, and Elder Feng, so Lin Yu finished off the patrol and raced toward the perimeter.

Lin Yu searched the school’s perimeter for a way through the energy shield and found a secondary energy station, but guards discovered him and forced him to flee. He ended the chapter surrounded by five martial artists, with the bald leader ordering them to seize him.

• Lin Yu tested the energy shield, realized he could not break through, and searched the perimeter for its power source or control node.
• Lin Yu found a guarded energy station, entered through a ventilation duct, and spotted its machines, technicians, and martial artists.
• The bald martial artist detected Lin Yu and sent Number Five after him, so Lin Yu threw a flash grenade and fled through the ducts.
• Lin Yu escaped into the station’s maze of rooms, but the guards pursued him and cut off his routes.
• The five martial artists surrounded Lin Yu, and the bald leader ordered them to take him.

Lin Yu destroyed the energy station to weaken the martial arts school's shield, surviving the resulting explosion. As he escaped the ruins, Zhao Yan seized him and cut open the weakened shield, carrying him into the night.

• Lin Yu smashed the observation window and damaged the instrument panel, triggering an energy-station explosion that drove off the five martial artists.
• Lin Yu sheltered in a metal container and survived the blast, which destroyed most of the energy station and weakened the shield above it.
• Lin Yu crawled through the ruins toward the hole in the ceiling, but Zhao Yan arrived while fleeing his pursuers.
• Zhao Yan spotted Lin Yu and the weakened shield, grabbed him, and slashed open a gap in the barrier.
• Zhao Yan carried Lin Yu through the gap and escaped into the night beyond the Golden Bull Martial Arts School.

Lin Yu and Zhao Yan recovered in a shack after Zhao Yan used Spirit Jade to break through to Great Grandmaster during his attack on the Golden Bull Martial Arts School. The ruined school sought help from its upper sect as Jiangcheng’s powers began searching for the two men, who remained unaware of the storm gathering around them.

• Lin Yu asked Zhao Yan how he had broken through, and Zhao Yan explained that he traded Spirit Jade to the system for a breakthrough empowerment during the battle.
• Zhao Yan said he was now a Great Grandmaster and thanked Lin Yu for destroying the school’s power station and helping him escape.
• The Golden Bull Martial Arts School assessed its losses: Jin Potian was gravely injured, Sun Li was dead, Feng Tao’s cultivation had fallen, and many core disciples had been killed.
• Ancestor Jin ordered the school to stabilize its position and sent a Teleportation Talisman to the upper sect requesting help and reporting Zhao Yan’s possible possession of Spirit Jade.
• Jiangcheng’s other major powers learned of the attack and began investigating Zhao Yan and Lin Yu while the two men tended their injuries in the slums.

After Zhao Yan and Lin Yu recovered from their injuries, the Golden Bull Martial Arts School summoned envoys from the upper realm for help against Zhao Yan. The envoys arrived, and the white-robed man injured Ancestor Jin before ordering Jin Potian to arrange a place for them to rest.

• Zhao Yan told Lin Yu he planned to attack the Golden Bull Martial Arts School again, while Lin Yu refused to join him and focused on healing.
• Ancestor Jin and the remaining Golden Bull Martial Arts School members waited for the upper-realm envoys to arrive through their teleportation formation.
• The white-robed envoy and Tie Kuang emerged from the formation, and Ancestor Jin pleaded for their help against Zhao Yan and to recover the spirit jade.
• The white-robed envoy scorned the school's summons and struck Ancestor Jin into the wall, leaving him gravely injured.
• The white-robed envoy ordered Jin Potian to find a place for him and Tie Kuang to rest, while Tie Kuang grinned hungrily.

Three days after their battle, Lin Yu and Zhao Yan encountered Jin Potian and Feng Tao at a KTV, where a mysterious white-robed man and a bald giant seized control. The white-robed man spotted them upstairs and ordered Jin Potian to confront his old acquaintances.

• Jin Potian agreed to make arrangements for the envoy and, three days later, brought Feng Tao along behind the white-robed man and the bald giant.
• At Nightscape, Lin Yu ignored Zhao Yan’s attempts to make him drink and reflected on his breakthrough to the Profound Understanding Realm.
• The KTV music abruptly stopped as the newcomers arrived, and the white-robed man took over the venue, ordered the men out, and told the women to stay.
• Zhao Yan and Lin Yu recognized Jin Potian and Feng Tao downstairs and sensed that the two newcomers far outmatched them.
• The white-robed man spotted Zhao Yan and Lin Yu through the window and ordered Jin Potian to go upstairs to meet his old acquaintances.