Recaps

Si Ming defeated the Netherworld Insect Princess, then uncovered Tu Wangyue’s role in the Sacred Sword plot and the demon tides. Tu Wangyue died before her trial could reach a verdict, and Si Ming’s investigation into the Witch Gu Sect led him into Li State, where he encountered a group fleeing Barbarian Hu cavalry.

• Henzhen killed Beast King Anye but died from her wounds, while Si Ming fought the Netherworld Insect Princess across the barren Barbarian Continent and sealed her in a golden lotus for eighty-four thousand years.
• The Sacred Sword corrupted Si Ming, but he defeated the evil consciousness within himself and regained control of his body.
• In the parallel world, Xiao Xuan killed Yan Jinghong and Ling Huanxi after they sacrificed themselves to destroy him, and Si Ming returned to the Heavenly Martial Alliance with news of the Netherworld Insect Princess’s defeat.
• Si Ming confronted Tu Wangyue, who admitted she had concealed the Sacred Sword’s danger and widened the Demon Race’s barrier to preserve the ninth Grandmaster’s plan.
• Tu Wangyue overpowered Si Ming’s allies before Cang Baiyi helped her escape, but Yu Shuying and Hongdou captured her at a waterfall.
• At Tu Wangyue’s trial, she admitted to scheming against Si Ming and imprisoning the previous Grandmaster, then explained that she and the earlier Holy Maidens had willingly pursued the Mohist ideal.
• Tu Wangyue severed her heart meridians and died, so the Mohist School concealed the cause of her death and sealed the truth for one hundred years.
• Si Ming traveled secretly to Li State with his companions to investigate the Witch Gu Sect, where they saw three wounded men fleeing with a young girl as Barbarian Hu cavalry charged into a village.

Si Ming and his allies helped Li State’s army escape, contested the Juntian Divine Sword, and fought the Barbarian King and the Return to Antiquity Patriarch. The Patriarch’s return unleashed a massive Gu infestation, leaving Si Ming facing the Silver Wolf King as the crisis spread.

• Si Ming and his companions rescued Marshal Mu’s army from Gourd Valley and learned that the Juntian Divine Sword could emerge there.
• Murong Qing and Si Ming helped Chai Wanyang confront Shang Zhen and the other traitors, while Murong Wu’s constitution sealed the Maha Witch Ancestor inside him.
• Si Ming fought Chidahu for the Juntian Divine Sword, while Song Jingping quietly took possession of it and later gave it to Si Ming.
• Si Ming and his allies defeated Wanyan Huang, whom Chidahu identified as the Return to Antiquity Patriarch, and Chidahu promised to stop warring and adopt Xia customs.
• The Return to Antiquity Patriarch took control of Chidahu’s body and unleashed swarms of life-draining black beetles, while Si Ming’s group struggled to protect the afflicted villagers.
• Saihan warned Si Ming that the kings had gone mad and that Chidahu had drained hundreds of thousands of people in Shengjing.
• The Silver Wolf King struck down Ying Zhou and gravely injured Xia Guanxue, then unleashed a powerful saber strike that Si Ming caught between his palms.

Si Ming and his allies pursued the Barbarian King and uncovered the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor’s plan to exploit the Eternal Barrier. The Witch Ancestor was ultimately killed, while Murong Qing lost her cultivation and Yan Jinghong was left near death but preserved in ice.

• Si Ming pursued the Barbarian King, who trapped him and Liu Yongzhan in the Hundun Spirit-Devouring Formation and fought him with Gu techniques and Heavenly Silkworm Force.
• Liu Qingqing broke the formation and rescued Liu Yongzhan, while Si Ming was gravely wounded, and Murong Wu later treated him, and Si Ming learned that Liu Yongzhan had died holding off the Eagle King.
• Yu Shuying and the allies devised a plan to repair the Divine Pillar and draw out the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor, while Murong Wu resolved to join the fight despite the risk.
• Si Ming fought the Myriad Gu Witch Ancestor, using the Heart Devil Secret Sword to exploit his mental weaknesses before the Witch Ancestor erased the Divine Pillar and wounded him with Extreme Essence.
• Murong Qing wielded the Mohist School Sacred Sword alongside Si Ming, and their combined attacks badly damaged the Witch Ancestor, though he regenerated and continued fighting.
• The Witch Ancestor’s subordinates overwhelmed the defenders, and Yan Jinghong spent his life force to kill the Vulture King and Scorpion King before Ling Huanxi preserved him in ice.
• Murong Qing used the final Hero Sword Technique to support Si Ming, who reflected the Witch Ancestor’s Extreme Essence back at him and erased him after the allies severed his connection to the outside world.
• Murong Qing collapsed and discovered that she had lost her cultivation, while Murong Wu learned the Witch Ancestor was truly dead and would not have to attack one of his own.