Recaps

Ning Tianchen founded the Heaven Sword Sect while Spirit Hall destroyed the Clear Sky and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clans. Tang San’s attempt to treat Xue Ye ended in a royal conspiracy, leaving him wanted and separated from the three clans he hoped to recruit.

• Scholars publicly exposed Yu Xiaogang’s flawed theories, while Ke Jie announced that the Academic Exchange Conference would recur every five years.
• Ning Tianchen won support and resources for the Heaven Sword Sect, recruiting the Defense, Speed, and Breaking Clans after proving himself to their leaders.
• Spirit Hall attacked and destroyed the Clear Sky Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, while Tang San rescued Xiao Wu from Hu Liena’s force.
• Tang San proposed founding the Tang Sect and recruiting the four Clear Sky-affiliated clans, but Ning Fengzhi rejected his offer to sell hidden weapons.
• Ning Tianchen and Xue Qinghe planned to use Tang Yuehua and Tang San’s medical skills to draw palace rivals into a trap, while Ning Tianchen received a deadly trial in No Return Deep Cave.
• Tang San entered the palace to treat Xue Ye, but a Godly Zhuge Crossbow shot the emperor, forcing Tang Xiao to help Tang San escape.
• Xue Qinghe blamed Tang San and ordered Prince Xue Xing and his imperial younger brother executed, while the empire issued a Wanted Order for Tang Yin and the Clear Sky Sect remnants.
• Titan led the Strength Clan toward the Star Luo Empire, rejecting Niu Gao, Yang Wudi, and Bai He’s invitation to join the Heaven Sword Sect.

Ning Tianchen expanded the Heaven Sword Sect while pursuing cultivation and alliances, as Tang San prepared his own faction for the journey to Sea God Island. Feng Xiaotian’s group uncovered a strange world in Hurricane Canyon and found a vision connecting the Wind God to the Evil God imprisoned beneath No Return Deep Cave.

• Ning Tianchen defeated the God of Death in No Return Deep Cave, completed another Asura trial with Ning Rongrong, and led his group onward into the ruins.
• Tang San’s group fled Spirit Hall through the Star Dou Great Forest, then struggled to feed and retain the Strength Clan’s survivors.
• Ning Tianchen’s group visited Gengxin City, where Ning Tianchen gained the Blacksmith Association’s support for firearms and Soul Tool research and drove out Spirit Hall bishop Miles.
• Ning Tianchen returned to the Heaven Sword Sect, helped relocate the Feng Shui Huo Three Families, secured the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, and led the sect in forcing the Elephant Armor Sect out of Element City.
• Ning Tianchen reorganized the Heaven Sword Sect’s departments and entered cultivation at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, while Feng Xiaotian led his companions into Hurricane Canyon to seek the Wind God’s inheritance.
• Tang San secured Waltz’s support for Dai Mubai and the Tang Sect, then prepared his companions to train for a dangerous voyage to Sea God Island.
• Feng Xiaotian’s group crossed into a strange world beyond Hurricane Canyon, found a Wind God Wyvern, and discovered a mechanical platform in the ruins of a giant city.
• Oscar’s remark triggered a vision showing the Wind God pursuing and defeating the Evil God before imprisoning it in No Return Deep Cave, while Ning Tianchen reached rank seventy-nine.

Ning Tianchen and his companions completed the Asura trials, won a place among the Upper Three Sects, and set out across the sea in search of the Land of the Other Shore. The arc left them sailing with Chen Haobai while Tang San’s group turned to violence to seize a pirate ship’s supplies.

• Feng Xiaotian received the Wind God Nine Trials, while Ning Tianchen discovered the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ remains, absorbed their spirit bones, and transformed his Seven Kill Sword.
• Ning Tianchen entered the Seven Great Sects Re-election Tournament, defeated Feng Bailong and Hu Yanzhen, and helped the Heaven Sword Sect secure a place among the Upper Three Sects.
• Chen Xin guided Ning Tianchen to comprehend Sword Heart, and Ning Tianchen and Ning Rongrong received an Asura trial to eradicate the wolf bandits of Xingnan City.
• Ning Tianchen’s group helped defend Xingnan City, defeated the wolf kings with Azure Luan Douluo, and completed the Asura Fourth Trial.
• Ning Tianchen attended the Kuike City auction, acquired valuable spirit bones and tools, and received the Asura Fifth Trial to cross the Deep Blue Sea and reach the Land of the Other Shore.
• Ning Tianchen recruited Chen Haobai and his crew to sail the Devil Ray into the deep sea, where the crew found treasure and nearly fought over its division.
• After the Sea Devil sank, Tang San and the Shrek Five Monsters boarded a Purple Pearl Pirate Group cargo ship and killed more than sixty crewmen to seize its supplies.

Ning Tianchen’s group reached Butterfly Valley, uncovered the Yu Die sisters’ inheritance and destroyed the Holy Spirit Cult before returning to Binhai City and sailing home. Meanwhile, Tang San’s group left Sea God Island and sought to recruit the Dragon Serpent Family into the Tang Sect, leaving Tang San to consider Meng Shu’s marriage condition.

• Tang San’s group entered Sea God Island and received their trials, while Ning Tianchen’s crew survived the Dream Jellyfish and reached the Sun Moon Continent.
• Ning Tianchen and Ning Rongrong acquired Soul Engineer materials and Zhang Chenghuan’s map, then set out toward Butterfly Valley with Zhang Heng and Cang Jinghong.
• Ning Tianchen’s group defeated Evil Spirit Masters at Hedu Village, entered Devil Forest, and fought their way past its dangerous soul beasts.
• Ning Tianchen reached Butterfly Valley, where the stone man revealed Yu Die and Cai Die’s heritage, and the sisters entered the Butterfly God’s inheritance trial.
• Ning Tianchen’s group infiltrated the Holy Spirit Cult, then killed Kashus and destroyed the cult’s headquarters after defeating its leaders and followers.
• Ning Tianchen returned to Binhai City, rescued Chen Haobai and his sailors from Mori’s accusation, and learned that Chen Haobai’s father had once visited the city but remained missing.
• Tang San’s group left Sea God Island and traveled toward Barack City, where Tang San proposed bringing the Dragon Serpent Family into the Tang Sect.
• Meng Shu agreed to join the Tang Sect if Tang San married Meng Yiran, and Tang San asked for until morning to decide.