Recaps

Lin Yunji and the venerables entered the Vast Blue Illusory Realm, where their powers were suppressed and they became mortals. Lin Yunji explained how killing living creatures granted power and guarded the others as they searched the barren wilderness for bugs.

• Lin Yunji entered the Vast Blue Illusory Realm with his Illusory Realm Spirit Pearl, and the venerables followed.
• Lin Yunji found that his body and robe had been reduced to mortal strength, and he could not access his small world or retrieve his weapon.
• Lin Yunji helped the venerables adjust after they woke up unable to stand, while Saint Venerable Daweide killed a bug and gained a little power.
• Lin Yunji explained that killing living creatures granted power, while plants could not be plundered for energy.
• Lin Yunji told the venerables to search for bugs as they adapted to their bodies, and he stayed nearby to guard them.

Lin Yunji and the venerables struggled with their frail mortal bodies in the Vast Blue Illusory Realm, where killing bugs could help the weaker cultivators grow stronger. When the group’s stomachs began to rumble, Immortal Venerable Hongluo explained that mortals had to eat to replenish their strength.

• Saint Venerable Daweide and the other venerables crawled around killing bugs to gain power, then rested because their weakened bodies could barely support them.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable explained that lower-level cultivators could grow by killing wild creatures, while Lin Yunji gained almost no power from the bugs.
• Divine Venerable Xuanjian and the others noticed their stomachs rumbling and worried that someone had harmed them.
• Lin Yunji asked Emperor Venerable Wuxuan when he had last eaten, and Wuxuan recalled sharing fruit more than thirty million years earlier.
• Immortal Venerable Hongluo explained that the Vast Blue Illusory Realm had made them ordinary mortals who needed food to restore their strength.

Lin Yunji and the venerables entered the Vast Blue Illusory Realm, where they discovered that hunger weakened them and checked how close their cultivation was to Universe Level, First Stage. After they left to recover, Nüwo told Lin Yunji that Cult Master Tongtian had been injured fighting Supreme Huangque over a Chaos Spirit Vein.

• Lin Yunji explained that the venerables could leave the Vast Blue Illusory Realm to rest or eat the bugs inside, then told them to check their cultivation levels with divine sense.
• The venerables found their cultivation scores in the eighties and nineties, near the hundred points Lin Yunji said a normal Universe Level, First Stage cultivator had.
• Lin Yunji and the venerables left the illusory realm and discovered that hunger inside had cost them nearly half or more of their Law Power, so Lin Yunji sent them to recover.
• Lin Yunji told Nüwo that they had been catching bugs in the realm, and Nüwo laughed at the Supremes being reduced to mortals.
• Nüwo told Lin Yunji that Cult Master Tongtian and Supreme Huangque had fought over a Chaos Spirit Vein, and that Supreme Huangque had injured Cult Master Tongtian.

Nüwo told Lin Yunji that Cult Master Tongtian’s dispute with Supreme Huangque had escalated into a public factional conflict, and warned that intervening could damage Lin Yunji’s reputation. Lin Yunji dismissed the risk and sent a Dharma body to settle the matter in favor of his family, while Nüwo feared the conflict might worsen.

• Nüwo explained that Supreme Huangque had taken Cult Master Tongtian’s supreme treasure and humiliated him, prompting You Han, Dan Chenzi, and others to suppress Huangque.
• Huangque’s disciples and allies retaliated, and the conflict grew into an arena battle in the Tenth Heavenly Tier, drawing many powerful cultivators.
• Nüwo said the Divine Net framed the dispute as a struggle between the Primordial Wilderness Faction and the Rogue Cultivator Faction, with public opinion favoring Huangque’s side.
• Lin Yunji considered the reputational cost of intervening but decided there was no reason to let others bully his master and friends.
• Lin Yunji created a Dharma body and sent it to settle the dispute, while Nüwo urged him not to let matters reach a complete breakdown.

Lin Yunji intervened in the standoff in the Tenth Heavenly Tier Domain after Heavenly Venerable Huangque and nearly a hundred Supremes challenged Cult Master Tongtian’s side. He suppressed Huangque and his followers, then reassured his master and martial uncles that he would protect them.

• Cult Master Tongtian’s side discussed how Heavenly Venerable Huangque’s numbers were growing and worried that public opinion favored him.
• Lin Yunji’s Law Body arrived and overwhelmed the battlefield with his power.
• Lin Yunji destroyed Heavenly Venerable Huangque’s physical body, suppressed his primordial spirit for a hundred million years, and turned the other Supremes into stone statues for five million years.
• Lin Yunji warned anyone dissatisfied to confront him at the Heavenly Sovereign Imperial Palace rather than bother Cult Master Tongtian.
• Lin Yunji stopped Cult Master Tongtian and the others from bowing, honored them as his elders, and explained that Huangque’s group had been testing whether he would intervene.

Lin Yunji and the venerables searched the Vast Blue Illusory Realm and discovered a venomous snake hidden in a hole. Lin Yunji captured it and prepared to collect its venom, leaving the snake’s fangs exposed.

• Lin Yunji watched over Saint Venerable Daweide and the other venerables as they searched for bugs in the Vast Blue Illusory Realm.
• Emperor Venerable Wuxuan found a hidden hole, and Lin Yunji dug it open despite the venerables’ weakness in the realm.
• A snake burst from the hole, and Lin Yunji caught it before it could escape.
• Lin Yunji identified the snake as venomous and asked the venerables to bring him a jar to collect its venom.
• Saint Venerable Daweide returned with a Primordial Expanse Mystic Jade Treasure Bottle, and Lin Yunji poured out its Chaos Spirit Liquid before forcing the snake’s mouth open.

Lin Yunji helped the venerables hunt creatures in the Vast Blue Illusory Realm so they could regain strength, and several of them broke through to Universe Level, First Stage. As dusk fell, they cooked and ate the meat they had gathered, preparing to continue without leaving the realm.

• Lin Yunji drained the venom from four green snakes and had Emperor Venerable Wuxuan kill them, restoring Wuxuan's strength until he was close to a breakthrough.
• Lin Yunji told the venerables to search carefully for larger animals, then caught a green frog and had Sword Venerable Datuo kill it.
• Lin Yunji smoked rabbits out of their burrow, and the group hunted more small animals for meat and strength.
• Emperor Venerable Wuxuan, Saint Venerable Daweide, Immortal Venerable Hongluo, and Supreme Hongdu broke through to Universe Level, First Stage.
• As both suns set, Lin Yunji cooked the frog, rabbit, snake, and mouse meat with wild fruits and vegetables, and the venerables ate the unseasoned stew rather than leave the realm and lose time.

Lin Yunji prepared the venerables to hunt Specters in the Vast Blue Illusory Realm, explaining how fire could protect them and how Specters attacked. The chapter ended with dozens of Specters surrounding their campfire, unable to approach its light.

• Lin Yunji told the venerables they would stay out at night to hunt Specters, and they agreed to trust him despite the danger.
• Lin Yunji explained that Specters feared fire and had the venerables gather branches while he built a campfire and made torches from rabbit fat, cloth, and sticks.
• Lin Yunji described Specters' curses and explained that powerful ones could use Moves, which might drop as energy balls when they were killed.
• As the venerables waited beside the campfire, they gradually fell asleep until Lin Yunji woke them and warned that Specters had arrived.
• The venerables awoke to dozens of hazy Specters surrounding the campfire, held back by its light.

Lin Yunji showed the venerables how to use torches to kill the specters around their bonfire, helping them grow stronger as they cleared the area. As they waited beside the fire, a larger, human-shaped figure appeared in the darkness, bringing an intense chill with it.

• Lin Yunji lured the specters toward the bonfire and burned them away with his torch.
• Emperor Venerable Wuxuan and the other venerables followed Lin Yunji’s example, killing specters and breaking through in cultivation.
• The venerables slaughtered all the specters near the bonfire, and Emperor Venerable Wuxuan’s strength rose to 182 points.
• Lin Yunji told the group to wait by the bonfire rather than risk leaving it.
• The bonfire flickered and weakened as a hazy human-shaped figure appeared about ten zhang away, staring at the group.

Lin Yunji and the venerables fought a Higher Specter in the darkness after it extinguished their bonfire and attacked Sword Venerable Datuo. Lin Yunji grabbed the Specter’s solid ghostly hands, convinced that its strongest weapon was also its weakness.

• Lin Yunji discovered that burning branches could pierce the Higher Specter and hurled several at it.
• The Specter unleashed a shriek and a sinister wind that stunned everyone, scattered the bonfire, and plunged the plain into darkness.
• Lin Yunji relit the fire with dry branches and rabbit fat, but saw the Specter choking Sword Venerable Datuo.
• Lin Yunji struck the Specter with burning charcoal, freeing Sword Venerable Datuo, who was then clawed and thrown to the ground.
• Lin Yunji smashed the Specter’s head with a burning stick, then seized both of its solid ghostly hands as they emerged.

Lin Yunji burned a high-level specter and helped Sword Venerable Datuo escape the Vast Blue Illusory Realm before the injured group withdrew. Just as Lin Yunji prepared to leave, he discovered and equipped the Green Jade Ghost Hand divine artifact.

• Lin Yunji tore off the specter's ghost hand and burned the specter in the campfire, gaining a wisp of power but badly burning and corroding his arms.
• Lin Yunji examined Sword Venerable Datuo's rotting chest wound and used burning coals to wake him so he could return to the Primordial Expanse Universe.
• Lin Yunji told the venerables to withdraw from the Vast Blue Illusory Realm because he could no longer protect them, and they began leaving with the Illusory Realm Spirit Pearl.
• Lin Yunji spotted a green orb in the campfire and retrieved it, discovering that it was the White Porcelain Grade Green Jade Ghost Hand with the Ghost Claw move.
• Lin Yunji equipped the Green Jade Ghost Hand and summoned a pair of green, ghostly arms beneath his own.

Lin Yunji returned from the Vast Blue Illusory Realm with a new Green Jade Ghost Hand and injuries he could heal in seclusion, while the Venerables discussed their gains and Daoist Datuo’s condition. At the edge of the Primordial Expanse Universe, a powerful figure emerged from a collapsed void chasm, declared himself supreme, and discovered that the Source Realm still existed.

• Lin Yunji tested the Green Jade Ghost Hand, found it moved like his own arm and could attack ghosts, then returned to the Primordial Expanse Universe.
• The Venerables told Lin Yunji that Daoist Datuo had left to recuperate from severe injuries, while they discussed their breakthroughs and the dangers of the Vast Blue Illusory Realm.
• Lin Yunji explained that raging flames and Yin Sha Qi were destroying his arms, but said he could suppress and refine those forces while recuperating in seclusion.
• At the edge of the universe, a towering figure emerged from a shattered void chasm and announced that he had cultivated the supreme Great Dao and would reign supreme.
• The figure spread his divine sense throughout the universe and was shocked to find the Source Realm still existed.

Demon Venerable Zhiyan returned from seclusion and declared that he would rule the Source Realm, only to discover that its powerhouses had grown far beyond his expectations. Lin Yunji effortlessly subdued him, leaving Zhiyan terrified and unaware of how such a formidable figure had appeared.

• Demon Venerable Zhiyan arrived in the prosperous Source Realm and proclaimed that all venerables must submit to him.
• Emperor Venerable Wuxuan confronted Zhiyan and revealed that he had reached the Hunyuan Great Emperor realm.
• Zhiyan learned that more than ten people in the Source Realm had reached that realm, including Hongluo, Daweide, and Xuan Jian, and that Lin Yunji led the realm.
• Lin Yunji emerged, suppressed Zhiyan with a huge hand, and held him in his palm.
• Emperor Venerable Xuanwu explained that Zhiyan belonged to the Source Realm and had been presumed dead after its earlier calamity.

Lin Yunji spared Demon Venerable Zhiyan but sentenced him to guard the Source Realm Divine Graveyard for ten billion years. After his arm healed, Lin Yunji gathered the others to reenter the Vast Blue Illusory Realm, where they agreed to leave the insect-filled area and move onward.

• Supreme Hongdu asked Lin Yunji to spare Demon Venerable Zhiyan, and Lin Yunji agreed to spare his life but punish him.
• Lin Yunji sentenced Demon Venerable Zhiyan to guard the Source Realm Divine Graveyard for ten billion years and sent him there.
• Demon Venerable Zhiyan surveyed the gravestones and recognized many of the names as people he had known.
• After Lin Yunji's arm healed, he gathered the others to enter the Vast Blue Illusory Realm again, while Divine Venerable Xuanjian brought Daoist Datuo's Illusory Realm Spirit Pearl because Daoist Datuo remained badly injured.
• Lin Yunji and the others returned to the extinguished campfire and agreed to choose a direction and move forward instead of fighting insects.

Lin Yunji and the venerables traveled through the Vast Blue Illusory Realm, where a sudden downpour turned out to be Beast Rain that created wild creatures from condensed energy. As frogs began falling from the sky, a huge one landed in front of them, leaving them facing an uncertain threat.

• Lin Yunji led the venerables in a random direction, and they agreed to hunt wild creatures until they reached the Universe Second Stage.
• Rain soaked their clothes, turned the ground to mud, and made it difficult to see or walk.
• A frog fell onto Supreme Hongdu, who killed it and absorbed a stream of power.
• Lin Yunji and Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable recognized the downpour as Beast Rain and warned that its creatures could be dangerous.
• Frogs began falling all around the group, and a washbasin-sized frog slammed into the mud in front of them.

Lin Yunji and the Divine Venerables fought off frogs raining from the sky, including a massive frog whose tongue and poisonous spray threatened the group. After Saint Venerable Daweide delivered the killing blow, a surge of pure power entered his body.

• A frog pierced Emperor Venerable Wuxuan's arm with its tongue and dragged him toward it, but Lin Yunji killed the frog before it could reach him.
• Emperor Venerable Wuxuan sucked the poisoned blood from his wound, easing the numbness in his arm.
• As frogs continued to fall, Lin Yunji and the Venerables halted and stayed alert, killing the attackers that came near.
• A calf-sized frog charged at the group, and Lin Yunji dodged its tongue and cut it off before wounding the frog with his fork and blade.
• The enormous frog sprayed corrosive poison, so Lin Yunji warned the others and they attacked it together.
• Saint Venerable Daweide delivered the final blow, and a surge of pure power entered his body.

Lin Yunji led the venerables through the frog rain, where they gained energy and learned how far his combat power surpassed theirs. After the storm, they found a village of natives descended from outsiders, and Lin Yunji led the group toward it without fear.

• Saint Venerable Daweide gained nearly twenty energy points after the venerables killed an enormous frog, while Lin Yunji explained that he had deliberately left the killing blow to them.
• Lin Yunji revealed that his combat power exceeded five thousand points and that killing the frog himself would have earned him less than half an energy point.
• After the frog rain ended, Lin Yunji led the group onward, and Immortal Venerable Hongluo spotted thatched cottages at the foot of a mountain range.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable explained that the villagers were descendants of outsiders who had entered the Vast Blue Illusory Realm and become trapped there.
• Lin Yunji led the venerables toward the village, reassuring them that they had little to fear from the natives.

Lin Yunji and the Venerables met a village of native residents in the Vast Blue Illusory Realm and learned how the village had become isolated. After confirming it was independent and had no other outsiders, Lin Yunji proposed using it as a long-term base, where native leaders could issue quests that rewarded cultivators with energy.

• Lin Yunji led the Venerables to the village, where the old patriarch welcomed them inside as guests.
• The old patriarch explained that his people had left Jade City after a conflict with Cold Jade City and that disasters and epidemics had reduced their clan from over three hundred members to a handful.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable explained that Jade City and Cold Jade City had been established by powerful outside universe civilizations.
• Lin Yunji asked whether the village was independent and had no other outsiders, then offered to cooperate with the patriarch and make the village a long-term base for the Primordial Expanse Universe civilization.
• The chapter explained that native leaders could issue quests to outside cultivators, who received energy as rewards for completing them.

Lin Yunji decided to establish a base for the Primordial Expanse Universe in Big Stone Town, and its old patriarch granted him builder authority. The town’s protections and blessing were revealed, giving Lin Yunji control over a base with four rare protections.

• Lin Yunji decided to build a base in the village rather than seek shelter at an existing one, and the old patriarch agreed.
• Lin Yunji and Saint Venerable Daweide followed the old patriarch to the town’s stone stele and discovered that the settlement was Big Stone Town, a town-level base.
• The old patriarch and Lin Yunji entered a contract that made Lin Yunji a builder of Big Stone Town.
• The realm’s rules announced that Lin Yunji had gained base management authority and a fifteen-percent power increase within the base, and listed its Sun, Bloodline, River, Plague, and Construction protections.
• Lin Yunji recognized that Big Stone Town’s Sun and Plague protections were unusually valuable and considered their benefits for the town’s residents.

Lin Yunji and the venerables established a base in the Vast Blue Illusory Realm, renamed Big Stone Town to Primordial Expanse Town, and organized work to develop it. The chapter ended with Lin Yunji, Emperor Venerable Wuxuan, and Saint Venerable Daweide chopping trees for the planned trading post.

• Lin Yunji kept the village's Sun Protection and Plague Protection and had the venerables bind themselves to the base by dripping blood on its stone stele.
• Lin Yunji renamed Big Stone Town to Primordial Expanse Town and explained that the group would focus on building up their own base instead of seeking refuge elsewhere.
• The old patriarch issued tasks to gather building materials, grain, and fresh water and to make looms, while Lin Yunji asked villagers to help produce equipment.
• Lin Yunji and the venerables discovered that the villagers' stone tools and wooden shield had far better attributes in the Vast Blue Illusory Realm than their supreme treasures.
• Lin Yunji assigned the venerables their tasks and went with Emperor Venerable Wuxuan and Saint Venerable Daweide to chop trees for the trading post.

Lin Yunji built an altar trading point and used it to access the Vast Blue Illusory Realm marketplace. After the system offered to hack into the realm’s rules, Lin Yunji agreed, gaining access to powerful new functions.

• Lin Yunji and the Saint Venerables cut down three trees, then carried them back to the village with stones collected by Supreme Huorong and the others.
• Lin Yunji built an altar trading point from split wood and broken stones.
• Lin Yunji discovered that the marketplace accepted a stone axe for two Canglan Points and let him browse Illusory Realm Spirit Pearls.
• The system offered to hack into the Vast Blue Illusory Realm’s rules, warning that the creator of those rules might detect it.
• Lin Yunji agreed to the hack, and the system added creation, transfer, erasure, and attribute-modification functions.

Lin Yunji learned how the system’s creation, erasure, and transfer functions worked, then joined Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable and the others to investigate a group of wild dogs. They discovered that the dogs were appearing at a birthplace, and Lin Yunji considered occupying it for the creatures and rewards it could produce.

• Lin Yunji learned that using the system’s cheats could lead to discovery, so he canceled his hack into the world and kept it as a last resort.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable brought Lin Yunji to a river, where Immortal Venerable Hongluo and Immortal Venerable Tianyu were watching wild dogs across the water.
• After waiting for more than an hour, Lin Yunji saw a wild dog appear from a faint light among the rocks.
• Immortal Venerable Hongluo and Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable explained that the rocks marked a birthplace that regularly produced wild creatures.
• Lin Yunji suggested occupying the birthplace, noting that it could eventually produce stronger creatures and divine artifacts.

Lin Yunji and the venerables set aside their task of fetching water and crossed the river to kill the wild dogs gathered on the opposite bank. After wiping out the pack, they found that the creatures were too weak to offer much power.

• Lin Yunji decided to postpone fetching water and return to the village before dealing with the wild dogs.
• Lin Yunji brought stone weapons, and he and the venerables waded across the shallow river as the wild dogs barked at them from the bank.
• Lin Yunji and the venerables attacked the pack, with Lin Yunji using a stone spear and the others fighting with clubs, axes, and spears.
• The venerables killed all the wild dogs, and Lin Yunji noted that the creatures were below Cosmic Level One and yielded little power.

After Lin Yunji and the venerables found a lake surrounded by wild dog bones, a gigantic python rose from its depths and drove them away. Lin Yunji decided they should remain near Big Stone Town, suspecting the monster could not leave the water and that its presence had drawn the wild dogs to their deaths.

• Lin Yunji led the venerables across the river and around White Mountain to investigate why no more wild dogs had appeared.
• Lin Yunji and the venerables discovered a barrier lake surrounded by mud and countless wild dog bones, and Lin Yunji urged them to leave.
• A huge python erupted from the lake, and Lin Yunji and the venerables fled across the ridge and river.
• Emperor Venerable Wuxuan, Immortal Venerable Hongluo, and Divine Venerable Xuanjian questioned the python's strength and the number of dead wild dogs.
• Lin Yunji decided to stay, reasoning that the python might be unable to cross the mud and that the wild dogs had approached it because of its intimidation.

Lin Yunji and the venerables discovered that the lake monster lured wild dogs into the water and devoured them, then discussed ways to contain it. After returning to the village, they reported completing the old patriarch’s four tasks and received power from the Unseen.

• Lin Yunji brought a wild dog to the lake and showed the venerables how the monster compelled it to enter the water and swallowed it.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable realized the lake mud came from the monster spitting out the dog’s bones.
• Supreme Hongdu proposed starving the monster by controlling the wild dogs, while Immortal Venerable Hongluo suggested poisoning it; Lin Yunji advised avoiding the monster and watching for elite wild dogs.
• Lin Yunji and the venerables drew water from the river and reported to the old patriarch that they had completed all four tasks.
• The Unseen rewarded everyone who had participated, and Saint Venerable Daweide said he had received about ten points.