Recaps

Li Si absorbed the Forbidden Land’s Power of Taboo and began refining its origin under Lin Ye’s direction, strengthening his Unbroken Virgin Saint Physique and reaching the Saint Realm. His breakthrough triggered tenfold feedback that advanced Lin Ye to the Eighth Layer of the Great Saint Realm and began transforming his flesh, which was complete by the chapter’s end.

• Li Rou accepted her early revival as a chance to prepare the Supreme Yin Sect for future crises and continued restoring her body and refining the damaged Emperor Weapon.
• Li Si arrived at the Forbidden Land, realized Lin Ye might have killed the Taboo Being, and obeyed his master’s call to enter.
• Lin Ye told Li Si to absorb the Power of Taboo, which strengthened Li Si’s flesh instead of corroding it.
• Lin Ye instructed Li Si to refine the Forbidden Land’s origin so he could take control of the place and absorb its Power of Taboo.
• After half a month of refining, Li Si reached the entry level of the Unbroken Virgin Saint Physique and broke through to the Saint Realm.
• The system granted Lin Ye tenfold feedback, raising his cultivation to the Eighth Layer of the Great Saint Realm and transforming his flesh.

Lin Ye gained his first Emperor Bone, moved Li Si’s Forbidden Land to the Black-Yellow Sect, and advanced his disciples’ cultivation while remaining stuck at the Great Saint peak. In the Supreme Profound Empire, Han Bing arrived at an immemorial battlefield and found his Devil Jade glowing, suggesting another disciple was nearby.

• Lin Ye sensed that his body had produced an Emperor Bone and realized that further improvements to his disciples’ physiques could produce more.
• Li Si gained preliminary control of the Forbidden Land and spent three months moving it to the Black-Yellow Sect while outsiders watched from a distance.
• Lin Ye covered the Black-Yellow Sect with an Emperor Formation, then gave Bai Shi the Primordial Devil God Saint Physique Secret Method to cultivate by burning his lifespan.
• Lin Ye’s disciples’ breakthroughs raised him to the peak of the Ninth Layer of the Great Saint Realm, but he could not reach the Quasi-Emperor Realm without comprehending or obtaining the power of Principles.
• Han Bing entered the Supreme Profound Empire seeking dense Sha Qi and found his Devil Jade glowing near the immemorial battlefield.

Han Bing found Yin Xiang as a potential disciple for the Supreme Devil Dao System, and Lin Ye arrived to recruit her. Yin Xiang, a reincarnated Great Emperor seeking an Emperor Weapon fragment in the Primordial Battlefield, was left weighing the unexpected offer from a powerful stranger.

• Han Bing spotted Yin Xiang in the crowd and informed Lin Ye that he had found a suitable disciple.
• Yin Xiang reflected on her reincarnation, her limited resources, and her search for an Emperor Weapon fragment in the Primordial Battlefield.
• Lin Ye used the Great Void Technique to reach Han Bing and recognized Yin Xiang as a fit for the Supreme Devil Dao System.
• Lin Ye took Yin Xiang aside and told her he wanted to make her his disciple.
• Yin Xiang questioned Lin Ye’s motives, and he promised her protection and access to powerful techniques, weapons, and inheritances.

Lin Ye persuaded Yin Xiang to become his disciple by giving her an Immortal Devil Vine, an immortal medicine she hoped to use to live a second life. He brought her to the Black-Yellow Sect and prepared a secret method suited to her Ten Ferocious Physique, which he planned to pass on once she reached the peak of the Ninth Layer of the King Conferment Realm.

• Lin Ye offered Yin Xiang an immortal medicine in exchange for her accepting him as her master, and she agreed after he produced the Immortal Devil Vine.
• Lin Ye and Yin Xiang swore oaths, completed a discipleship ceremony, and Yin Xiang received the immortal medicine; the system rewarded Lin Ye with 50 million Devil Dao Points.
• Yin Xiang gave up entering the Primeval Battlefield and returned with Lin Ye to the Black-Yellow Sect, where she contributed cultivation methods and inheritances for sect points and resources.
• Lin Ye tested Yin Xiang’s physique, discovered she had the Ten Ferocious Physique, and obtained the Ten Fiends Sacred Physique Secret Method and the blood of ten primeval ferocious beasts.
• Lin Ye decided to wait until Yin Xiang reached the peak of the Ninth Layer of the King Conferment Realm before teaching her the secret method.

Han Bing found a dense Sha Qi cultivation ground in the Primeval Battlefield and began cultivating there, while Lin Ye received physical-strength feedback as his disciples Bai Shi and Chu He broke through to the Saint Realm. Yin Xiang advanced to the Ninth Layer of the King Conferment Realm, then discovered that Lin Ye’s Ten Fiends Sacred Physique Secret Method suited her Ten Ferocious Physique and decided to cultivate it.

• Han Bing selected several cultivation treasure grounds in the Primeval Battlefield, settled at the sixth, and absorbed its dense Sha Qi to raise his cultivation.
• Bai Shi broke through to the first layer of the Saint Realm, and Lin Ye’s feedback tempered his body and condensed a second Emperor Bone.
• Chu He reached the entry level of the Undying Saint Physique Secret Method and broke through to the first layer of the Saint Realm, condensing Lin Ye’s third Emperor Bone through feedback.
• Yin Xiang cultivated with the Black-Yellow Sect’s resources, consumed a saint medicine petal, and reached the Ninth Layer of the King Conferment Realm.
• Lin Ye gave Yin Xiang the Ten Fiends Sacred Physique Secret Method and blood from ten kinds of immemorial ferocious beasts.
• Yin Xiang discovered the method was more powerful than her other options and highly compatible with her Ten Ferocious Physique, so she chose to cultivate it.

Yin Xiang reached the Saint Realm and began comprehending the Water-Element Principle while Lin Ye considered how to protect Yu Yu from the awakening Great Emperor Fuyao. The chapter ended with Yin Xiang forming a rudimentary Water-Element Principle and Lin Ye receiving a startling system notification.

• Yin Xiang recognized signs that Yu Yu was a reincarnated Great Emperor, and Lin Ye later asked her how to prevent Yu Yu from losing control of her consciousness.
• Yin Xiang described three possible methods, and Lin Ye decided to suppress Yu Yu's cultivation until he could safely erase Great Emperor Fuyao's consciousness.
• Yin Xiang broke through to the Saint Realm, and Lin Ye received a fifteenth Emperor Bone through the system's tenfold feedback.
• Yin Xiang focused on the Water-Element Principle and formed its rudiment, shaking her cultivation room.
• Lin Ye received a system notification and was instantly stunned.

Lin Ye broke through to the Quasi-Emperor Realm after Yin Xiang comprehended the embryonic principle of water, then obtained a treasure to aid her progress. Yin Xiang began studying the Yinglong Overturning the Sea Painting, which could help her comprehend the water principle faster.

• Yin Xiang comprehended a wisp of the embryonic principle of water, and Lin Ye used the feedback to break through to the Quasi-Emperor Realm.
• Lin Ye gave Yin Xiang the Nine Nether True Body Emperor Technique, then passed copies to Bai Shi and the other disciples.
• Yin Xiang comprehended another wisp of the embryonic principle of water, and Lin Ye gained ten more wisps through feedback.
• Lin Ye exchanged 1.3 billion Devil Dao Points for the Yinglong Overturning the Sea Painting and placed it in the cultivation tower for the disciples to study.
• Yin Xiang examined the painting, sensed its Water-Element Principle, and realized it could accelerate her comprehension.

Lin Ye gained a strand of the Water-Element Principle through Yin Xiang’s progress and received a large reward when Dongfang Bai became an elder of the Supreme Yin Sect. The system then tasked him with recruiting ten million Devil Dao cultivators within ten years, leaving him worried that the mission would expose the Black-Yellow Sect to its enemies.

• Yin Xiang comprehended her tenth strand of embryonic Water-Element Principle power, and Lin Ye gained a strand of the Water-Element Principle through system feedback.
• Lin Ye realized that the Water-Element Principle could eventually let him reach the Great Emperor realm without relying on the Profound Heaven Realm’s providence.
• Dongfang Bai’s Yin Body cultivated the Extreme Yin Sacred Body Secret Method, broke through to the First Layer of the Saint Realm, and was appointed an elder of the Supreme Yin Sect.
• Lin Ye received 1.5 billion Devil Dao Points when Dongfang Bai became an elder.
• The system issued an upgrade mission requiring Lin Ye to have ten million people cultivate Devil Dao methods within ten years, and Lin Ye worried the Orthodox Sects would attack the Black-Yellow Sect.

Lin Ye sought a small world with at least a hundred million people so he could develop demonic path martial artists and complete his mission. Yin Xiang searched the Profound Heaven Realm, found no surviving candidates, and gave Lin Ye leads to possible small worlds beyond it.

• Lin Ye ruled out the Eastern Domain and the other domains, then issued a mission for leads to populous small worlds.
• Yin Xiang wondered why Lin Ye wanted such a world and decided to investigate places she remembered from her previous life.
• Yin Xiang searched several locations in the Eastern Domain and found that the small worlds there had been destroyed or vanished.
• After checking all nine domains, Yin Xiang concluded that no suitable small world likely remained within the Profound Heaven Realm.
• Yin Xiang returned to the Black-Yellow Sect and gave Lin Ye coordinates and information about possible small worlds beyond the realm.

Lin Ye searched the extraterritorial void for a small world with enough humans to fulfill his mission and found one guarded by Taboo Beings. He killed the White Jian Giant Beasts’ guard and launched an attack on Sovereign Yuantun and the rest, leaving the battle underway.

• Lin Ye traveled to the first location Yin Xiang had given him, found it destroyed, and moved on.
• At the second location, Lin Ye killed a Great Saint Realm Second Layer creature, left demonic path inheritances for the few hundred thousand humans there, and departed.
• Lin Ye reached the fifth and final location, sensed Taboo Beings and an intact small world, and approached its Forbidden Land.
• A White Jian Giant Beast guarding the Forbidden Land attacked Lin Ye, who shattered its claw and killed it with a single blow.
• Sovereign Yuantun and the other Taboo Beings awoke, and Lin Ye charged in, blasting Yuantun deep into the Forbidden Land and shattering the other Taboo Beings’ bodies.

Lin Ye killed Yuantun and the other Taboo Beings, then took control of the Abyss Kingdom and freed its people from their captors. He left the kingdom under Zhou Pu’s rule and began providing its population with cultivation inheritances.

• Lin Ye killed the remaining Taboo Beings and plundered their Forbidden Land, finding a small world with more than a hundred million people.
• Lin Ye entered the Abyss Kingdom, killed Luo Hu, and learned from his memories that the Taboo Beings had kept its people captive and forbidden them to cultivate.
• Lin Ye told Zhou Pu that the Taboo Beings were dead and declared that the Abyss Kingdom would become a kingdom under the Black-Yellow Sect.
• Lin Ye used Heavenly Demon Karma Kill to kill every Abyss Guard in the kingdom and ordered Zhou Pu to have the people cultivate.
• Zhou Pu arranged for cultivation inheritances to be copied and distributed, and half a month later the people of the Abyss Kingdom had begun cultivating.

Lin Ye supplied the Abyss Kingdom with resources and incentives until ten million people became Devil Dao followers, completing his mission and upgrading the system to level four. After the upgrade, he discovered that the system could sell Immortal treasures and techniques, resurrect disciples, and show him what they were doing.

• Lin Ye supplied Zhou Pu with resources after the Abyss Kingdom faced shortages, while Zhou Pu distributed them and punished people who skimmed them.
• Lin Ye offered silver and grain to ordinary people who reached the Body Refining Realm, and the number of Devil Dao followers climbed to ten million over half a year.
• The system announced the mission was complete, rewarded Lin Ye with five billion Devil Dao Points, and upgraded to level four after a day's wait.
• Lin Ye discovered that the upgraded system offered Immortal Weapons and Immortal Techniques and could resurrect fallen disciples at a cost in Devil Dao Points.
• Lin Ye used the system to view Ye Chen with his pregnant wife, Tantai Yao, then checked on his other disciples.

Lin Ye concealed the Abyss Kingdom with an Emperor Formation, then returned to the Profound Heaven Realm and prepared to break through to the Great Emperor Realm without attracting attention. After refining the Taiyi Devil Diagram, he traveled to a depleted Primordial Fragment that imposed no cultivation restrictions, intending to undergo his Emperor Tribulation there.

• Lin Ye spent points on an Emperor Formation that hid the Abyss Kingdom and its Forbidden Land, then left Zhou Pu in charge.
• Lin Ye returned to the Black-Yellow Sect and realized that his disciples’ progress had brought him close to the Great Emperor Realm, but he feared the Emperor Tribulation would draw ancient Great Emperors’ attention.
• Lin Ye exchanged 3.9 billion Devil Dao Points for the Taiyi Devil Diagram and spent three months preliminarily refining it.
• Lin Ye decided to find a Primordial Fragment with no cultivation restrictions, where he could seal off heaven and earth during his tribulation.
• Lin Ye contacted Nalan Yu, learned of an abandoned Primordial Fragment in the sea near the Eastern Domain, and traveled there.

Lin Ye entered a Primordial Fragment, sealed it with the Taiyi Devil Diagram, and cultivated until he broke through to the Great Emperor realm. After surviving all thirty-six stages of the Emperor Tribulation with little difficulty, he emerged as a Great Emperor.

• Lin Ye searched the Primordial Fragment, confirmed it held no hidden old monsters or Taboo Beings, and sealed it with the Taiyi Devil Diagram.
• Lin Ye refined feedback energy and holy medicines, merged his Water-Element Principle into his Pseudo Law Power, and transformed it all into Law Power.
• Lin Ye's body developed six new Emperor Bones as his Heavenly Dao Golden Core became a Heavenly Dao Law Power Golden Core.
• Lin Ye endured all nine stages each of the Wind, Fire, and Lightning Tribulations, emerging with a stronger body and purer Law Power.
• Lin Ye easily passed all nine stages of the Heart Demon Tribulation and broke through to the Great Emperor realm.

After breaking through to the Great Emperor realm, Lin Ye returned to the Black-Yellow Sect and kept a low profile while the Profound Heaven Realm’s factions prepared for the Emperor Road to open in about ten years. Dongfang Bai told Lin Ye about the coming struggle and urged the sect to prepare, suggesting one of its disciples might claim the Great Emperor position.

• Lin Ye returned to the Black-Yellow Sect, nurtured the Taiyi Devil Diagram, and spent his days with his junior sister while the sect’s disciples cultivated or trained.
• At the Heavenly Dao Sacred Land, Qin Jun told awakened Quasi-Emperors that Great Emperor Xuanyang’s fate was unknown and called for a new Great Emperor to arise.
• Qin Jun and the other leaders estimated that the Emperor Road would open in about ten years and chose candidates to nurture for the coming contest.
• Liu Yun learned that Dongfang Bai had reached the Second Layer of the Saint Realm, summoned him, and told him about the struggle for the Great Emperor position.
• Dongfang Bai told Lin Ye about the Emperor Road and asked him to prepare the Black-Yellow Sect’s disciples for the contest.

Lin Ye told his disciples they could become Great Emperors without competing for the Emperor’s throne, but a system mission led him to urge them to enter the Emperor Road anyway. As his disciples set out to contend for providence, Ye Chen killed a wanted rogue cultivator, and the Black-Yellow Sect’s disciples began making their strength known across the Profound Heaven Realm.

• Lin Ye gathered his eleven disciples, explained the Emperor Road’s deadly contest for a single throne, and revealed that he had become a Great Emperor without relying on providence.
• A system mission required Lin Ye’s disciples to compete for the Emperor’s throne, so he encouraged them to enter the Emperor Road; Yin Xiang declined, while the others agreed to go.
• Lin Ye spent Devil Dao Points on resources for his disciples and taught them techniques to help them grow stronger before the Emperor Road opened.
• Ye Chen tracked down Huang Duo, a Seventh Layer Saint wanted for killing thousands, and killed him with the Immemorial Devil God Fist to claim the bounty.
• The Black-Yellow Sect’s disciples defeated geniuses from major and hidden powers, spreading the sect’s name throughout the realm.

The Shadow Pavilion chose to target the Black-Yellow Sect’s prodigies to boost Li Zhenhe’s fortune, and Li Zhenhe challenged Chu He. After Chu He defeated him, the hidden Great Saint Li Bai attacked Chu He.

• The Shadow Pavilion’s two Great Saints decided to have Li Zhenhe challenge a Black-Yellow Sect prodigy and arranged for one of them to intervene if he began to lose.
• Chu He searched for opponents in the Supreme Profound Empire after defeating several Saint Realm experts, while Sun Hou pursued fortune in the Black Mountain Demon Kingdom.
• Li Zhenhe and twelve Shadow Pavilion Saint Realm experts intercepted Chu He and challenged him to a fight.
• Chu He’s superior physical strength and foundation let him defeat Li Zhenhe with one punch, sending him flying and breaking his bones.
• Li Bai emerged from hiding and attacked Chu He with a spear charged with Great Saint-level power.

Chu He survived Li Bai’s ambush because Lin Ye intervened, then killed Li Bai and Li Zhenhe along with many Shadow Pavilion cultivators. The Shadow Pavilion learned of the deaths, and Quasi-Emperor Wang Xin awakened and planned to attack the Black-Yellow Sect after recovering.

• Li Bai’s spear gravely wounded Chu He, but Chu He escaped and Lin Ye arrived in time to stop Li Bai’s next strike.
• Lin Ye restrained Li Bai and ordered Chu He to kill him; Chu He defeated and killed Li Bai, then recovered from his injuries.
• Chu He traveled to the Shadow Pavilion’s gathering and killed Li Zhenhe and many of its Saint Realm cultivators, while a few escaped.
• The Shadow Pavilion learned that Li Zhenhe and Li Bai had died, so its surviving Great Saint awakened the sleeping Great Saints and Quasi-Emperor Wang Xin.
• Wang Xin became furious and planned to attack the Black-Yellow Sect with a Quasi-Emperor Weapon after his strength recovered.

Lin Ye annihilated the Shadow Pavilion and claimed its resources, causing the Eastern Domain to fear the Black-Yellow Sect. Half a month later, he captured a False Emperor spying near the sect and revealed that he was a true Great Emperor.

• Lin Ye destroyed the Shadow Pavilion’s arrays, killed Wang Xin and its members, and crushed the experts sealed in underground statues.
• Lin Ye collected ten billion Devil Dao Points and plundered the Shadow Pavilion’s treasury, including its Immortal Soil.
• The Black-Yellow Sect announced the Shadow Pavilion’s destruction, and the confirmed news alarmed the Eastern Domain’s forces.
• Half a month later, Lin Ye detected an old man watching the Black-Yellow Sect and struck him down with imperial might.
• Lin Ye identified the old man as a False Emperor, who admitted his identity and wondered which Great Emperor Lin Ye could be.

Lin Ye questioned Yuan Kong about the wider world, the Taboo Forbidden Zones, and the Immemorial Immortal Road. He learned that the Ancient Phoenix Forbidden Zone was only a minor one and that powerful Great Emperors watched the Forbidden Zones, while Yuan Kong ended by describing the Immortal Road as a fragment of the Immortal Realm filled with rare treasures.

• Lin Ye asked Yuan Kong where he came from, and Yuan Kong identified himself as a cultivator from the Crimson Yang Continent.
• Yuan Kong explained the Three Realms and Nine Lands and said that dangerous journeys between them kept most factions in the Profound Heaven Realm from learning about the wider world.
• Lin Ye asked about the Taboo Forbidden Zones, and Yuan Kong described Great Emperor Xuanyang's battle in the Ancient Phoenix Forbidden Zone and its many powerful Taboo Sovereigns and Taboo Beings.
• Yuan Kong told Lin Ye that the Ancient Phoenix Forbidden Zone was one of dozens of minor Forbidden Zones, far below the nine Immemorial and thirteen High Antiquity Forbidden Zones.
• Yuan Kong explained that ancient Great Emperors guarded against the Forbidden Zones, and Lin Ye recognized that his own strength was still limited compared with theirs.
• Lin Ye asked about the Immemorial Immortal Road, and Yuan Kong said it was believed to be a fragment of the Immortal Realm, containing treasures such as immortal medicine and Immortal Soil.

After learning about the dangers of the Immemorial Immortal Road, Lin Ye strengthened Bai Shi and exchanged for the Life and Death Seal to help him comprehend a Principle. The chapter ended with Liu Yun asking Nalan Yu whether he was sure he wanted to go to the Emperor Road.

• Yuan Kong explained that some exhausted Quasi-Emperors and False Emperors became Immortal Slaves on the Immemorial Immortal Road, and Lin Ye kept Yuan Kong's contact method before sending him away.
• Lin Ye ordered Bai Shi to attempt a breakthrough to the Great Saint Realm, and Bai Shi succeeded on his third attempt, triggering cultivation feedback for Lin Ye.
• Lin Ye exchanged five billion Devil Dao Points for the Life and Death Seal and created a space where Bai Shi could comprehend the Life Principle or Death Principle.
• Bai Shi began cultivating inside the Life and Death Seal while Lin Ye's other disciples continued striving to advance their cultivation.
• Liu Yun met Nalan Yu in the Eastern Mountain Imperial Dynasty's imperial capital and asked whether he was sure he wanted to go to the Emperor Road.

Liu Yun and Nalan Yu discussed the Emperor Road, Nalan Xi, and Lin Ye’s possible strength as a False Emperor. After Bai Shi comprehended the embryonic Life Principle, Lin Ye gained the true Life Principle and gave Bai Shi the Extreme Dao Emperor Technique Nirvanic Emperor Spear to study.

• Liu Yun asked Nalan Yu about his plans for the Emperor Road and his daughter Nalan Xi, and Nalan Yu said he would compete with her there.
• Liu Yun questioned Nalan Yu about Lin Ye’s strength after the Black-Yellow Sect destroyed the Shadow Pavilion, and Nalan Yu speculated that Lin Ye might be a Quasi-Emperor or False Emperor.
• Bai Shi comprehended ten wisps of the embryonic Life Principle, and Lin Ye’s tenfold feedback let him comprehend a hundred wisps and gain the true Life Principle.
• Lin Ye searched the system store and chose the Extreme Dao Emperor Technique Nirvanic Emperor Spear for Bai Shi.
• Lin Ye gave Bai Shi the Nirvanic Emperor Spear, and Bai Shi thanked him before returning to cultivate.

Over five years, Bai Shi mastered the Nirvanic Emperor Spear while Lin Ye gained its power through the system and prepared his disciples for the Emperor Road. After assigning Bai Shi to watch over them, Lin Ye’s disciples challenged Bai Shi’s strength, and he agreed to spar with Chu He.

• Bai Shi comprehended a wisp of the Embryonic Principle of Death and devoted himself to cultivating the Nirvanic Emperor Spear, while Lin Ye received tenfold feedback from his progress.
• After five years, Bai Shi used the Nirvanic Emperor Spear to unleash a blow beyond a normal Quasi-Emperor’s limits, then continued training until he reached entry-level mastery.
• Lin Ye received tenfold feedback, mastering the Nirvanic Emperor Spear to minor mastery, and considered how his disciples’ breakthroughs could eventually turn all his bones into Emperor Bones.
• Lin Ye gathered his disciples, gave them talismans and weapons for the Emperor Road, and told Bai Shi to keep watch over them.
• Chu He challenged Bai Shi to a spar, and Bai Shi agreed as the other disciples gathered to watch and debated who would win.

Bai Shi defeated Chu He in a spar and revealed that he intended to help his fellow disciples claim the emperor’s throne rather than pursue it himself. When the Emperor Road opened, Lin Ye’s disciples entered, and he used the system to watch Ye Chen explore the road for opportunities.

• Chu He attacked Bai Shi with the Immemorial Devil God Fist, but Bai Shi’s powerful body and the Embryonic Life Principle let him withstand the assault.
• Bai Shi struck Chu He with the Immemorial Devil God Fist powered by the Embryonic Principle of Death, breaking his defenses and leaving him gravely injured.
• Bai Shi told Chu He that he did not want the emperor’s throne and would let his fellow disciples compete for it fairly.
• The Emperor Road opened, and Lin Ye’s disciples and other qualified prodigies entered while most Quasi-Emperors remained behind.
• Lin Ye used the system to observe Ye Chen searching the Emperor Road for opportunities before the struggle for the emperor’s throne began.

Ye Chen and the other Black-Yellow Sect disciples cultivated at a spring on the Emperor Road while Li Si and Han Bing sought out dangerous places suited to them, and Lin Ye grew stronger through their progress. In the third year, the Emperor Road descended into violence, and three Dark Guild prodigies attacked the disciples at the spring as Bai Shi stepped forward to face them.

• Zhao Yan began refining an Embryonic Wood Element Principle crystal while the Heavenly Dao Sacred Land disciples waited and cultivated.
• Ye Chen and his companions cultivated at a Spiritual Qi-rich spring, while Li Si and Han Bing searched for places where they could grow stronger.
• Li Si cultivated among gathered grudges and Han Bing absorbed Sha Qi, while Lin Ye gained cultivation through tenfold feedback from his disciples.
• In the third year, Great Saint prodigies began hunting weaker contenders, and Nalan Yu escaped a stronger opponent before hiding to heal.
• Three Dark Guild prodigies arrived at the spring and attacked Ye Chen and the others, but Bai Shi told his seniors to keep cultivating and took on the attackers himself.