Recaps

Jin Potian brought an envoy from the upper realm to Zhao Yan, who challenged the powerful visitor and was swiftly defeated. The white-robed man then struck Lin Yu, leaving him gravely injured and his fate uncertain, while Tie Kuang moved to cripple Zhao Yan.

• Jin Potian entered Zhao Yan’s room and told him that the envoy wanted to see him.
• Zhao Yan mocked the envoy, whose pressure made Zhao Yan and Lin Yu realize the visitors came from the upper realm.
• Zhao Yan attacked the white-robed man, but the man shattered his blade and sent him crashing into the wall.
• The white-robed man struck Lin Yu, crushing his chest and leaving him motionless as the Primordial Unity Ki Technique struggled to repair his injuries.
• Lin Yu warned Zhao Yan to run, but Zhao Yan saw no way to escape the white-robed man.
• The white-robed man ordered Tie Kuang to cripple Zhao Yan and take him back, and Tie Kuang approached with his axe.

Badly wounded, Lin Yu woke to find Zhao Yan dragging him through the wilderness after their escape from the upper realm pursuers. Zhao Yan took him toward a mass grave, where the two hoped to find a chance to survive.

• Lin Yu woke as Zhao Yan dragged him along a forest path, both of them gravely injured.
• Zhao Yan insisted he had saved Lin Yu so they could go treasure hunting in the Golden Bull Martial Arts School's storeroom, then warned him to stay quiet because their pursuers might be close.
• Lin Yu recalled the attackers and suspected the system had helped Zhao Yan unleash a burst of power to escape with him.
• After coughing up black blood, Zhao Yan checked for pursuers and told Lin Yu they were near a mass grave deep in the forest.
• Zhao Yan dragged Lin Yu into the foggy, deathly mass grave while Lin Yu circulated the Primordial Unity Ki Technique to repair his body.

Lin Yu and Zhao Yan hid in a cave to escape the dangers stalking them in the mass grave, where they found a clear but treacherous pool. After Zhao Yan gave Lin Yu some of its water, Lin Yu regained consciousness and began recovering.

• Zhao Yan noticed the lurking creatures were becoming bolder and dragged Lin Yu to a cave concealed behind vines.
• Zhao Yan drank from the cave's pool, then slipped into its powerful undercurrent while washing his wounds and barely escaped.
• Zhao Yan gave Lin Yu water from the pool and rested while circulating the Sunflower Manual.
• Lin Yu woke, found his meridians showing signs of healing, and drank several mouthfuls from the pool after Zhao Yan warned him to avoid its depths.

Lin Yu and Zhao Yan slowly recovered from their injuries in a haunted cave, where a mysterious power continued to hinder their healing. Zhao Yan leaped into the pool after seemingly discovering something and returned half an hour later, shivering but visibly excited.

• Lin Yu and Zhao Yan survived for nearly a month on pills while their injuries healed unusually slowly, and Lin Yu suspected the white-robed man's power was responsible.
• Zhao Yan blamed the upper-realm figures for leaving them to suffer, while Lin Yu hunted nearby animals and found that the sinister presences had disappeared.
• Lin Yu returned with two rabbits and found Zhao Yan staring intently at the pool before he suddenly jumped into its dark, dangerous depths.
• Lin Yu waited by the pool, then went back to roasting the rabbits when Zhao Yan did not resurface.
• After nearly half an hour, Zhao Yan burst out of the pool, climbed to the fire, and warmed his frozen hands with excitement in his eyes.

Zhao Yan and Lin Yu prepared to explore the underground passage beneath the pool, hoping to find a Spirit Vein and resources to recover their strength. They followed the current through a narrow, dark tunnel and emerged into a vast underground space.

• Zhao Yan told Lin Yu he had found a cavern beneath the pool and showed him a stone that seemed to contain Spirit Jade.
• Zhao Yan explained that the undercurrent briefly calmed about once every cup of tea and urged Lin Yu to explore the passage with him.
• Lin Yu agreed to go with Zhao Yan the next day, and they prepared Turtle Breathing Pills and luminous pearls.
• At noon, Zhao Yan and Lin Yu entered the pool and waited at the hollow in the rock wall for the current to weaken.
• They swam through the passage during the brief calm, then followed a light around a bend and emerged into a vast underground space.

Lin Yu and Zhao Yan discovered an underground spirit vein and used its dense spiritual Qi to recover and cultivate. Zhao Yan broke through to Martial Venerable, while Lin Yu quietly reached Great Grandmaster, leaving Zhao Yan’s triumph dampened by the gap between them.

• Lin Yu and Zhao Yan emerged from the water into a cavern filled with Spirit Jade and other spirit stones.
• Zhao Yan dug out crystals and vowed to take revenge on the Golden Bull Martial Arts School, while Lin Yu cultivated with the Primordial Unity Ki Technique.
• Lin Yu absorbed spiritual Qi rapidly, healing his injuries and advancing his cultivation as Zhao Yan used the Sunflower Manual to strengthen himself.
• Zhao Yan broke through to Martial Venerable after refining large amounts of Spirit Jade.
• Zhao Yan asked Lin Yu about his progress, and Lin Yu said he had reached Great Grandmaster.
• Zhao Yan silently returned to cultivating, troubled by Lin Yu’s rapid progress.

Lin Yu discovered a glowing barrier behind the spirit-jade cavern wall, and Zhao Yan’s system revealed that the Upper Realm lay beyond it. Unable to cross the one-way barrier yet, the two returned to cultivation while learning more about the powerful world above them.

• Lin Yu sensed a fluctuation in the cavern wall, tore it open, and revealed a glowing barrier as Zhao Yan came to investigate.
• Zhao Yan and Lin Yu tried to break through or probe the barrier, but it absorbed their attacks and blocked their Qi.
• Zhao Yan learned from his system that the Upper Realm lay beyond the barrier and that only beings of sufficient strength could pass between the realms.
• Zhao Yan learned that the barrier restricted travel from the Upper Realm and abandoned his plan to pursue two enemies there; Lin Yu refused to join him.
• Zhao Yan and Lin Yu resumed cultivating in the cavern, and Zhao Yan shared fragments of information about the Upper Realm and its ranks.

After reaching Peak Martial Venerable, Zhao Yan returned to attack the Golden Bull Martial Arts School while Lin Yu helped him hunt down its members. Zhao Yan lured Tie Kuang toward the cavern entrance, but Tie Kuang intensified his assault after Bai Xuan sensed something was wrong.

• Zhao Yan reached Peak Martial Venerable, and Lin Yu advanced to Great Grandmaster Perfection before they left the cavern.
• Zhao Yan raided a Golden Bull Martial Arts School branch, killed its master, and left a bloody mark that prompted Jin Potian to report him to Bai Xuan and Tie Kuang.
• Zhao Yan and Lin Yu ambushed the school's pursuit party near the mass grave, and Lin Yu crippled Jin Potian while Bai Xuan and Tie Kuang watched.
• Zhao Yan challenged Bai Xuan, who ordered Tie Kuang to fight him, while Lin Yu hunted down fleeing senior members to prevent reinforcements.
• Zhao Yan drew Tie Kuang toward the cavern entrance, but Bai Xuan noticed his tactic and ordered Tie Kuang to finish the fight; Tie Kuang powered up and wounded Zhao Yan.

Zhao Yan lured Bai Xuan and Tie Kuang into the cave while Lin Yu used a Bewildering Tracks Formation to steer them deeper underground. The pursuit reached a mysterious, frigid pool, and Bai Xuan ordered Tie Kuang to follow Zhao Yan beneath its surface.

• Zhao Yan struck Tie Kuang with Blood Moon Slash, then used the blow's force to flee into the cave.
• Bai Xuan stopped Tie Kuang from chasing Zhao Yan at once and noticed Lin Yu was missing.
• Lin Yu activated his Bewildering Tracks Formation to disorient Bai Xuan and Tie Kuang and guide them toward the cave.
• Lin Yu monitored their progress with warning restrictions while recovering his strength with Spirit Jade.
• Zhao Yan taunted Bai Xuan in an underground cavern, then jumped into a deep, icy pool.
• Bai Xuan sensed a strange power beneath the pool and ordered Tie Kuang to pursue Zhao Yan into it.

Lin Yu trapped Bai Xuan and Tie Kuang in the cavern by activating the Two Realms Barrier, weakening the Upper Realm cultivators as Zhao Yan and Lin Yu prepared to fight them. After Bai Xuan and Tie Kuang overwhelmed them with their remaining strength, Zhao Yan charged at Tie Kuang and declared that he would break through.

• Lin Yu secretly set a formation at the cold pool entrance while Bai Xuan and Tie Kuang pursued Zhao Yan into the underground cavern.
• Bai Xuan and Tie Kuang discovered the Spirit Vein and the Two Realms Barrier, which suppressed their strength, as Lin Yu joined Zhao Yan in the cavern.
• Bai Xuan unleashed his imposing presence and attacked Lin Yu, while Tie Kuang charged Zhao Yan with his giant axe.
• Lin Yu activated his formation to block Bai Xuan's strike, but the force hurled him into the rock wall and left him fearing the formation would soon fail.
• Zhao Yan charged toward Tie Kuang's axe and declared that he would break through the Martial Venerable realm.

Zhao Yan and Lin Yu fought Bai Xuan and Tie Kuang, but Zhao Yan swallowed top-grade Spirit Jade to keep fighting and dragged both enemies into the Two Realms Barrier. Left alone in the cavern, Lin Yu questioned the System and learned it had lured his true body there.

• Zhao Yan broke through during the battle, and Lin Yu activated the cave formation to attack Bai Xuan and Tie Kuang.
• As Zhao Yan's breakthrough strength faded, Bai Xuan and Tie Kuang regained the advantage and prepared to kill him and Lin Yu.
• Zhao Yan swallowed top-grade Spirit Jade, forcing his strength higher and breaking through another level as he fought the two Upper Realm cultivators.
• With his body failing, Zhao Yan seized Bai Xuan and Tie Kuang and dragged them into the Two Realms Barrier.
• Lin Yu picked up Zhao Yan's bloodied blade and asked the System why it had insisted that his true body come there; the System admitted it had been found out.

Lin Yu learned that Zhao Yan had survived and pressured his system into revealing the world’s three layers and possible locations of the Five Elements supreme treasures. He resolved to reach the Supreme Realm and avenge Zhao Yan.

• Lin Yu questioned Zhao Yan’s system about Zhao Yan’s fate and accused it of making Zhao Yan’s life harder by stealing rewards and mishandling its plans.
• Lin Yu threatened to expose the system to Zhao Yan, then negotiated one request in exchange for keeping quiet.
• Lin Yu asked where to find the Five Elements supreme treasures, and the system explained that they were hidden in the Supreme Realm, beyond the small worlds and Upper Realm.
• Lin Yu demanded directions to the higher realms, and the system warned him that reaching the Supreme Realm was perilous even for Zhao Yan.
• Lin Yu vowed to follow the path and avenge Zhao Yan as the system named possible treasure sites across the five Heaven Domains.

Lin Yu left the cavern and seized control of the weakened Golden Bull Martial Arts School, intending to use it as a base to gather resources and prepare for the Upper Realm. After freeing the abducted women, he looked out over Jiangcheng’s stark divide between the powerful and the poor.

• Lin Yu left the cavern, returned to Jiangcheng, and decided to take over the Golden Bull Martial Arts School after Jin Potian died and Bai Xuan and Tie Kuang were taken to the Upper Realm.
• Lin Yu confronted the school’s leaders, defeated its strongest remaining fighters, and ordered the disciples to surrender their weapons and register the school’s supplies.
• Lin Yu punished Jin Potian’s worst loyalists and allowed the other disciples to remain under observation.
• Lin Yu discovered more than a hundred abducted women in an underground palace and ordered their safe return with compensation.
• Lin Yu watched order return to the school and reflected on the contrast between Jiangcheng’s wealthy district and its poor western neighborhood.

Lin Yu took over the Golden Bull Martial Arts School, renamed it the Primordial Unity Martial Arts School, and imposed new rules on its members. After the Su Family and Jiangcheng government learned of the takeover and the disappearance of the Upper Realm envoys, government officials met Lin Yu to question him about it.

• Lin Yu reviewed the Golden Bull Martial Arts School’s resources, rewarded Zhao Chun, renamed the school the Primordial Unity Martial Arts School, and ordered the expulsion or punishment of members who had oppressed civilians.
• Su Wanxiong learned that Lin Yu had killed Jin Potian and subdued the school’s Grandmasters, while the Upper Realm envoys and Zhao Yan had disappeared near the mass grave; he told his people to wait and watch.
• A Jiangcheng government clerk reported Jin Potian’s death and the school’s takeover to the director, who ordered an investigation and decided to meet Lin Yu in person.
• The director, Qin Zhao, and a young clerk arrived at Lin Yu’s residence and asked him to provide a routine record of his identity, cultivation, and legal grounds for taking over the school.
• Lin Yu’s pressure made the young clerk tremble as Qin Zhao questioned him about the school’s change of control.

Lin Yu secured official recognition for the Primordial Unity Martial Arts School and learned that the Upper Realm would investigate its missing envoy. He then examined the school’s manuals and began creating a new technique, but Zhao Chun interrupted him to remind him of the Su Family’s banquet.

• Lin Yu told Investigation Department officials that the Upper Realm’s envoy and Jin Wujiao were dead, and Qin Zhao approved the school’s takeover of the western district while warning of an impending investigation.
• The director thanked Lin Yu for saving more than a hundred young women, and Zhao Chun confirmed that the inspection had gone smoothly.
• Zhao Chun brought Lin Yu an invitation from Su Wanqing, the Su Family’s eldest legitimate daughter and a powerful young cultivator.
• Lin Yu inspected the school’s vault and dismissed most of its martial manuals as crude and worthless.
• Lin Yu studied the manuals and began writing the Hunyuan Art, a technique suited to his clone’s earth affinity.
• After hours of writing, Lin Yu was interrupted by Zhao Chun, who reminded him that it was time to attend the Su Family’s banquet.

Lin Yu met Su Wanqing at a banquet, where she tested whether the new master of the west side would become the Su Family’s enemy or ally. She admitted she wanted stability and to understand the unknown man now controlling the territory, leaving Lin Yu’s response unresolved.

• Lin Yu finished drafting the underlying concept of the Hunyuan Art and set out for the Su Family’s banquet in his bloodstained clothes.
• At the Listening to the Waves Pavilion, Lin Yu met Su Wanqing, the powerful young leader of the Su Family.
• Su Wanqing asked Lin Yu whether he wanted to be enemies or allies after Jin Potian’s death disrupted Jiangcheng’s balance of power.
• Su Wanqing explained that the Su Family could help Lin Yu secure resources and connections, while seeking stability in return.
• Lin Yu questioned her offer and recognized that she had invited him to assess him, then asked if she wanted to see whether he was a man or a ghost.

Lin Yu agreed with Su Wanqing that the Primordial Unity Martial Arts School and the Su Family would respect each other’s territory in Jiangcheng, while recognizing that she would seize any weakness the school showed. Back at the school, he reflected on his cultivation goals and the need for resources and intelligence, then added a guiding line to the Hunyuan Art.

• Su Wanqing proposed that the Primordial Unity Martial Arts School and the Su Family would not encroach on each other and would exchange what each needed, and Lin Yu accepted.
• On the ride back, Zhao Chun asked why powerful groups were paying attention to the school, and Lin Yu compared Jiangcheng’s three powers to the Three Kingdoms.
• Lin Yu concluded that Su Wanqing’s goodwill was strategic and that she would attack if the school revealed weakness, though he did not fear her because his goal lay beyond Jiangcheng.
• Lin Yu returned to the Primordial Unity Martial Arts School and told Zhao Chun to replace its signboard the next day.
• While studying the Hunyuan Art, Lin Yu recognized that he needed resources and intelligence in this unfamiliar world and wrote, “Still as a mountain, moving like thunder. Contest not for a moment, but for a thousand ages.”

Lin Yu fought a Dragon-Horned Elephant alongside Shi Hao and agreed to return with him to Stone Village. There, he reunited with Shi Yunfeng and saw how much the village had prospered, while the Willow God’s presence appeared far stronger than before.

• Lin Yu overpowered a Dragon-Horned Elephant with his physical strength, and Shi Hao knocked it unconscious with a blow.
• Shi Hao offered to teach Lin Yu precious techniques once Lin Yu reached the Blood Transformation Realm Extreme Realm, and Lin Yu agreed to return to Stone Village with him.
• Three days later, Shi Hao brought Lin Yu to Stone Village, where Shi Yunfeng recognized Lin Yu from their childhood.
• Shi Hao showed Lin Yu the village’s new training ground, storehouse, and medicinal herb garden, which had helped provide resources for the children to cultivate.
• Lin Yu sensed that the Willow God had grown much stronger, with a faint glow, flickering runes, and branches resonating with the spiritual Qi around it.

Willow God brought Lin Yu and Shi Hao into a strange space and explained that Lin Yu must follow his own path rather than remain in Shi Hao’s shadow. She urged Shi Hao to leave and travel independently, then told Lin Yu his Dao lay beneath his own feet.

• Willow God drew Lin Yu and Shi Hao into a strange space and revealed that she could see Lin Yu was not the original and that his path came from beyond this world.
• Willow God explained that Lin Yu pursued understanding and would lose himself by following Shi Hao, whose bloody path would overshadow anyone beside him.
• Willow God told Shi Hao to leave and travel on his own, while Shi Hao protested that he could protect Lin Yu.
• Shi Hao gave Lin Yu a piece of beast hide engraved with incomplete precious techniques and asked him to return it later.
• Lin Yu asked Willow God for guidance, and she said she would give him neither power nor precious techniques because his Dao lay beneath his own feet.

Lin Yu left Stone Village and trained alone in the Great Wilderness, pushing his body toward the Blood Transformation Extreme Realm without taking opportunities meant for Shi Hao. Willow God sent him to the Void God Realm to complete his breakthrough, where his first appearance earned a rare reward and stunned the other cultivators.

• Shi Hao left Stone Village to pursue cultivation, while Lin Yu soon said farewell to Shi Yunfeng and ventured into the Great Wilderness alone.
• Lin Yu fought fierce beasts, absorbed the essence of the wilderness, and repeatedly tempered and rebuilt his body with Willow God's vitality as he pursued the Blood Transformation Extreme Realm.
• After Lin Yu reached one hundred thousand jin of arm strength, Willow God told him about a place that could help him complete the Extreme Realm and sent him to the Void God Realm for one month.
• Lin Yu sensed the more complete laws of the Void God Realm and entered an area where a stone stele proclaimed him an Immortal spirit soul and awarded him a bronze treasure book fragment.
• The cultivators nearby stared in disbelief at Lin Yu's reward for his first visit.

Lin Yu visited Su Xiaoxiao’s world, where General Yue Zhenshan thanked him for saving humanity and arranged a huge supply of cultivation resources. Su Xiaoxiao explained that their world was locked in a struggle for survival against an aging world, and Lin Yu learned that only one realm could survive.

• Su Xiaoxiao brought Lin Yu into the military base, where Yue Zhenshan greeted him and thanked him for helping save Earth.
• Yue Zhenshan explained that the front line was close to collapse under the invaders’ renewed offensive, then ordered soldiers to deliver cultivation supplies to Lin Yu.
• Su Xiaoxiao admired the valuable resources and, after Lin Yu offered them to her, swept them into her storage space.
• Lin Yu asked Su Xiaoxiao about the crisis, and she explained that an exhausted world was trying to devour their newborn world to prolong its existence.
• Su Xiaoxiao told Lin Yu that the two worlds had no path to retreat and that one would ultimately devour the other.

Lin Yu learned how the dying enemy world threatened to devour Su Xiaoxiao's world and considered reversing the invasion. After months of cultivation, an all-out enemy offensive breached the front, and Lin Yu decided to visit the battlefield despite warnings about his safety.

• Su Xiaoxiao explained that Lin Yu's shared rules had enabled her world to counterattack and reclaim territory from the eerie.
• Lin Yu sensed the distant front and warned that the enemy's assimilation of its rules could turn the defending soldiers into enemy puppets.
• Lin Yu proposed that Su Xiaoxiao's world might eventually devour the dying invader and study its origin laws.
• Lin Yu and Su Xiaoxiao cultivated for several months before a full-scale military mobilization interrupted them.
• A staff officer reported that at least three rule-level sovereign monsters had joined an all-out offensive, threatening three main combat legions and breaching the Third Legion's defensive line.
• Lin Yu acknowledged that he could not defeat the enemy in his current form but decided to visit the front and see the army group named after him.

Lin Yu arrived at the collapsing Immortal Fortress, rallied the surviving troops, and exposed puppets hidden among them. After the eerie attacked the eastern defensive line, Lin Yu and Su Xiaoxiao helped turn the battle, but Lin Yu sensed the giant-eyed enemy from the eerie campus had arrived.

• Lin Yu reached the front with Su Xiaoxiao and learned from Chu Zhen that the Third Legion had been wiped out and the remaining forces were devastated.
• Lin Yu inspected the survivors, destroyed seven puppets hidden among the first group, and ordered Su Xiaoxiao to monitor logistics and communications for signs of otherworldly law.
• Grayish-purple mist poured through a breach in the eastern defensive line, and Lin Yu went there with Su Xiaoxiao while Chu Zhen stayed to command the troops.
• Lin Yu's golden law broke the puppets' control and turned many of them against the eerie, while Su Xiaoxiao fought beside him and stopped a corrupted officer from shooting him.
• After the mist retreated, Lin Yu told Su Xiaoxiao that the giant vertical pupil from the eerie campus was present and ordered Chu Zhen to rebuild the eastern fortifications.

After retreating to the Immortal Fortress, Lin Yu helped Chu Zhen identify soldiers who had been assimilated by the uncanny beings. Chu Zhen arranged to deal with them as Lin Yu warned that assimilation could go unnoticed until a soldier turned against his comrades.

• Lin Yu and Su Xiaoxiao returned to the Immortal Fortress after an exhausting battle, where Chu Zhen struggled to manage reports from the front lines.
• Chu Zhen told Lin Yu that the Third Legion had been wiped out and fewer than thirty percent of the Second Legion had returned, and Lin Yu explained that assimilated soldiers had betrayed their comrades.
• Lin Yu agreed to help Chu Zhen find the assimilated soldiers and secretly examined troops gathered in a secluded training ground.
• Lin Yu detected faint purple marks on several soldiers, marked them with his rules, and later told Chu Zhen who they were.
• Chu Zhen made arrangements to deal with the marked soldiers as Lin Yu reflected on how gradually the uncanny beings rewrote their victims' thoughts.

Lin Yu taught the fortress soldiers a new cultivation system that combined their power of rules with Qi and blood, and allowed Chu Zhen to send a recording of his sermon to Blue Star. Su Xiaoxiao then tried to persuade Lin Yu to give her a private lesson.

• Lin Yu gave Chu Zhen a method for detecting moles after the suspects were taken away overnight.
• Su Xiaoxiao urged Lin Yu to help the soldiers develop a better cultivation system, and he agreed to teach them.
• Lin Yu preached the Dao to the fortress soldiers and taught them how to circulate the power of rules through their bodies.
• Chu Zhen thanked Lin Yu and received permission to send the sermon recording back to Blue Star.
• Su Xiaoxiao asked Lin Yu for a private lesson, but he walked away as she called after him.