Recaps

At the Other Shore Hall, Yao Nian prepared to avenge her family’s slaughter by Nan Fu, while Nan Xunran learned her history and resolved to deal with both her and Nan Fu. Nan Xunran left his room at the Wei Clan and was greeted by Wei Yan.

• Yao Nian killed a man who betrayed her and warned her followers not to draw the Nan Clan’s attention.
• Yao Nian vowed that her grudge against Nan Fu would soon be settled.
• Nan Xunran learned from the system that Nan Fu had slaughtered Yao Nian’s family after she killed his son, and that she had founded the Other Shore Hall to seek revenge.
• Nan Xunran decided to replace Nan Fu as head of the Fourth Attendant’s lineage and kill Yao Nian.
• Wei Yan waited outside Nan Xunran’s room at the Wei Clan and greeted him when he emerged.

Nan Xunran accepted Wei Yan’s bone umbrella and returned to the Nan Clan branch family, where he confronted Nan Fu about Yao Nian. He declared that the Fourth Attendant’s lineage needed a new family head, leaving Nan Fu pleading for his position.

• Wei Yan offered Nan Xunran a bone umbrella and threatened to call herself his fiancée if he refused, so he accepted it before leaving.
• Wei Yan watched Nan Xunran depart, then turned her attention to the Following Wind Cavalry’s affairs.
• Nan Xunran arrived at the Fourth Attendant’s lineage, and Nan Fu rushed to welcome him.
• Nan Xunran asked Nan Fu about Yao Nian and revealed that she was the master of the Other Shore Hall.
• Nan Xunran said the lineage needed a new family head, and Nan Fu begged him to reconsider, offering to kill Yao Nian himself.

Nan Xunran killed Nan Fu for his crimes and confronted Yao Nian, who had planned to take revenge on Nan Fu herself. After stopping Yao Nian from attacking him, Nan Xunran told her to find Nan Fu on the road to the Yellow Springs.

• Nan Xunran froze Nan Fu with his bone umbrella and killed him, then ordered the Fourth Attendant to appoint a new branch head.
• At Other Shore Hall, Yao Nian learned that Nan Fu was dead and erupted in anger.
• Nan Xunran appeared before Yao Nian and revealed that he had dealt with Nan Fu.
• Yao Nian pressed her blade against Nan Xunran and tried to stab him, but his pressure forced her to her knees.
• Yao Nian demanded to know how Nan Xunran had learned of her grudge against Nan Fu, and he told her to find Nan Fu on the road to the Yellow Springs.

Nan Xunran destroyed Yao Nian’s Other Shore Hall and tracked her after she escaped using a substitute death. He fought her in a bamboo forest, where she broke through to the Heavenly God Realm, and the chapter ended as another powerful presence approached.

• Yao Nian escaped Nan Xunran’s attack by using a substitute death, while he burned down the Other Shore Hall and killed her subordinates.
• Nan Xunran used the Reincarnation Law to find Yao Nian and confronted her outside the Other Shore Hall.
• Yao Nian filled a bamboo forest with mist and illusions, then advanced to the Heavenly God Realm, but Nan Xunran remained unaffected.
• Nan Xunran played the Seven Kill Flute, summoning ferocious beasts to attack Yao Nian and drawing powerful figures toward the forest.
• As Yao Nian struggled to reach Nan Xunran, a powerful presence arrived and shook the green bamboo.

Nan Xunran used the Seven Kill Flute to summon vicious beasts and trap Yao Nian, who fought back but was overwhelmed by their power. After surviving their attacks, she made one last attempt to strike Nan Xunran and fell to the ground gravely injured.

• A Saint Realm vicious beast appeared beneath Nan Xunran's bamboo, and Yao Nian fled when another powerful presence arrived.
• Nan Xunran used the flute to pull Yao Nian back and surrounded her with spatial rifts as she prepared to fight.
• Yao Nian summoned a phantom and attacked Nan Xunran with short blades, but his barrier blocked them.
• A Supreme Saint Realm vicious beast joined the attack, and Yao Nian fought the beasts, killing several before the two strongest sent her flying and wounded her.
• Yao Nian lunged at Nan Xunran with her last strength, but he blocked her blade with the Seven Kill Flute and shattered her arm.
• Yao Nian fell from the air and struck the ground, gravely injured.

Nan Xunran killed Yao Nian, then exchanged his Kill Points to advance to the Late Stage of the Heavenly God Realm. Back at the Nan Clan, he rewarded Nan Ye for taking first place in the Azure Moon Pagoda rankings and gave him the Soul-Seizing Blade.

• Nan Xunran trapped Yao Nian’s escaping soul with Spatial Confinement and killed her with a spatial rift.
• After Yao Nian’s death earned him Kill Points, Nan Xunran exchanged them for a breakthrough to the Late Stage of the Heavenly God Realm.
• Nan Xunran crushed the two vicious beasts with his new power and left the bamboo forest.
• Nan Ye told Nan Xunran that he had claimed first place in the Azure Moon Pagoda rankings, and Nan Xunran gave him the Soul-Seizing Blade.
• Nan Ye showed the blade to the Nan Clan disciples, inspiring them to pursue cultivation and compete for first place.

Nan Yao told Nan Xunran that the Nan Clan had found the Burial Ground and invited him to join the expedition. At the lake entrance, the ancestors and elders prepared him for the descent, but the chapter left them about to enter after Nan Feng arrived with a few old magical artifacts.

• Nan Yao visited Nan Xunran and said she would lead a party of ancestors and elders to the Burial Ground, inviting him to come along.
• Nan Xunran agreed to join Nan Yao's expedition, which was set to depart two days later.
• At the Burial Ground, the Grand Elder explained that the lakebed was a passage leading beneath the water.
• Nan Gui and Nan Qingyuan gave Nan Xunran magical artifacts and pills, while Nan Feng offered him a few old artifacts.
• Nan Gui criticized Nan Feng's meager gift, and Nan Qingyuan asked whether he had traded the rest of his artifacts for spirit wine.

Nan Xunran was separated from his companions and awoke in a mysterious space beside a black-haired figure identical to himself. Their touch unleashed a surge of power that exposed the space, and Nan Gui and the others arrived to find them together.

• Nan Gui led the group through the underwater passage after connecting their wrists with a glowing thread.
• The group emerged in an unfamiliar place and discovered that Nan Xunran had vanished and his thread had been torn apart.
• Nan Gui ordered everyone to search for Nan Xunran.
• A black-haired figure identical to Nan Xunran removed the broken thread from his wrist and touched his forehead, waking him on an ice bed.
• Nan Xunran sensed that the figure's power surpassed the Immortal Emperor Realm, and their fingertips touching released a force that destroyed the surrounding space.
• Nan Gui and the others rushed to the exposed space, where Nan Qingyuan confirmed Nan Xunran was there and Nan Feng regarded the black-haired figure warily.

A mysterious man with Xiao-Ran's face nearly destroyed Nan Xunran and the others, but Nan Xunran healed them and received a breakthrough to the Middle Stage of the God King Realm from the stranger. After the man vanished, Nan Feng and Nan Gui concluded that he was not from their time.

• The mysterious man overwhelmed Nan Gui and the others, then began erasing them with a devastating attack.
• The system urged Nan Xunran to heal them, and Nan Xunran used eerie green light to stop their bodies from disintegrating.
• The mysterious man took Nan Xunran's wrist and poured spiritual power into him, raising him to the Middle Stage of the God King Realm before disappearing.
• Nan Xunran demanded an explanation from the system and wondered whether the mysterious man was himself from another timeline.
• Nan Xunran woke the others, and Nan Feng and Nan Gui said the man's intervention had disrupted time and proved he did not belong to their era.

After escaping the Burial Ground, Nan Xunran returned to the Nan Clan and revealed he had reached the God King Realm. Nan Gui concealed the lingering Annihilation Power that was harming her, but Nan Qingyuan persuaded her to let Nan Xunran treat her.

• Nan Feng used wine to activate a teleportation formation, and everyone returned to the Nan Clan.
• Nan Xiao welcomed Nan Xunran, confirmed he was unharmed, and discovered that he had reached the God King Realm.
• Nan Xiao gave Nan Xunran pills to consolidate his spiritual power, then went to check on the ancestors.
• Nan Gui's body aged from the Annihilation Power left inside her, but she restored her appearance before Nan Xiao noticed.
• Nan Qingyuan examined Nan Gui and urged her to seek Nan Xunran's help, and Nan Gui reluctantly agreed to go rather than have him summoned.

Nan Xunran used spirit butterflies to confirm that Nan Gui’s annihilation power had completely dissipated, while Lin Ge escaped his pursuers in the Qingxun Domain. He activated an ancient teleportation array and vanished toward the Upper Realm.

• Nan Xunran cleared the last trace of annihilation power from Nan Gui, and silver spirit butterflies gathered around him before fading away.
• Nan Gui flew from Divine Son Hall in embarrassment while Nan Xunran watched her leave with amusement.
• In the Qingxun Domain, Lin Ge killed the men who attacked him, burned down the house, and disappeared.
• Lin Ge reached an ancient teleportation array and completed its formation as his pursuers closed in.
• Lin Ge activated the array and vanished, leaving his pursuers to realize it had taken him to the Upper Realm.

Lin Ge arrived at the Nan Clan carrying a sealed jade pendant from his father, Lin Yue, and told Nan Xiao that his father had died in the Lower Realm after being injured by the Immortal Yin Clan. Nan Xiao recognized Lin Yue as his old friend Xiao Lin, learned that his son Nan Xunran had already destroyed the Yin Clan, and assigned Lin Ge to stay by Nan Xunran’s side.

• Lin Ge reached a Nan Clan teleportation formation and asked a disciple to deliver his sealed jade pendant to the clan head, identifying himself as Lin Yue’s son.
• Nan Xiao recognized the pendant and recalled how Xiao Lin had once saved him and fought beside him as one of the feared Sword Demon Twin Fiends.
• Lin Ge told Nan Xiao that his blind eyes came from an injury and that his parents had died when he was young; he had only recently unsealed his father’s belongings and learned to visit Nan Xiao.
• Lin Ge said Xiao Lin had been injured by the Immortal Yin Clan and had asked Nan Xiao to avenge him.
• Nan Xiao revealed that his son had already wiped out the Immortal Yin Clan and proudly told Lin Ge that Nan Xunran was the Divine Son.
• Nan Xiao assigned Lin Ge to stay by Nan Xunran’s side, and Lin Ge respectfully agreed.

Lin Ge joined Nan Xunran’s side, seeking revenge, and was sent to the Crimson Plume Sacred Land to cultivate. Ning Shi recognized him as the deadly assistant who had killed him in past reincarnations, and Nan Xunran assigned Ning Shi to look after him.

• Lin Ge arrived before Nan Xunran and revealed that his eyes had been gouged out and that he had come to the Nan Clan for revenge.
• Nan Xunran sent Lin Ge to the Crimson Plume Sacred Land to focus on cultivation because his cultivation was low.
• Pei Zimo and the others met Lin Ge, and Lin Ge explained that he sensed their outlines through his cultivation method despite being blind.
• Ning Shi recognized Lin Ge from past reincarnations as Nan Xunran’s formidable assistant, though he denied knowing him.
• Nan Xunran told Ning Shi to take Lin Ge to the side hall, leaving Ning Shi to care for the man he feared.

Ning Shi walked with Lin Ge and learned that Lin Ge could cure his blindness but had chosen not to, while Lin Ge expressed a wish to see Nan Xunran. At the Sacred Hall, Wen Rong introduced his new mount and helped Nan Xunran name his qilin.

• Ning Shi asked Lin Ge whether his eyes could be cured, and Lin Ge said they could but that he was used to being blind.
• Ning Shi praised Nan Xunran's beauty, and Lin Ge said he would like to see him with his own eyes.
• Wen Rong rushed to greet Nan Xunran and proudly introduced his newly tamed fire dragon, Brahma Sun.
• Wen Rong asked about Nan Xunran's mount, and Nan Xunran summoned a powerful qilin from a rift in space.
• Wen Rong suggested naming the qilin Brahma Star, and Nan Xunran agreed to consider it.

Nan Xunran stayed in the holy land for a few days before returning to the Nan Clan for its contest with the Bai Clan. His arrival at the training grounds revealed that he had reached the God King Realm, and he joined his parents in the spectator stands as the contest was about to begin.

• Nan Xunran said he would stay in the holy land for a few more days, delighting Wen Rong, while Fan Yue clung to him and Brahma Star played alongside Brahma Sun.
• Wen Rong told Nan Xunran that the Nan Clan and Bai Clan would hold a contest, and Nan Xunran reminded him that he was a Nan Clan disciple; Nan Luoning then declared she would go too.
• Bai Clan disciples arrived at the Nan Clan training grounds and asked when Nan Xunran would appear.
• Nan Xunran arrived with a powerful presence, and the disciples learned he had entered the God King Realm and praised him as a taboo figure of the younger generation.
• Bai Wanying welcomed Nan Xunran to the seats of honor, but he chose a seat beside them, leaving Nan Xiao and Bai Wanying to bicker.

Nan Xunran watched the Nan and Bai Clans gather at the Dao Arena after his parents suggested he test his strength against a great clan. The competition began with Lu Jingyi facing Bai Kuang, while Feng Qianshan nervously tried to complete a system sign-in without attracting Nan Xunran’s attention.

• Bai Wanying and Nan Xiao told Nan Xunran not to compete because he had reached the God King Realm, then suggested he could test his skills by destroying a great clan.
• The Nan Clan and Bai Clan assembled at the Dao Arena, where Nan Xunran noticed Lu Jingyi and gained Kill Points as her cultivation increased.
• Lu Jingyi eagerly looked for Nan Xunran, and Bai Wanying and Nan Xiao discussed her admiration for him.
• The competition began, and an elder announced Lu Jingyi versus Bai Kuang as the first match.
• Nan Xunran noticed Feng Qianshan, who was at the Dao Arena to complete a system sign-in and feared that failing would cost him his life.

Bai Zhi faced Wen Rong in the tournament final and played a pipa piece she had composed for Nan Xunran, whose sound stunned and tormented the audience. After Nan Xunran praised it, Bai Zhi conceded the match to Wen Rong after learning he was the Divine Son’s younger brother.

• Feng Qianshan announced the final match between Wen Rong and Bai Zhi, surprising Nan Xiao and the Nan Clan disciples.
• Bai Zhi declared that she had composed a piece especially for Nan Xunran and began playing her pipa.
• Bai Zhi’s piercing music stunned the Nan Clan disciples and forced Wen Rong to retreat, while Bai Clan members said it was powerful even without spiritual power.
• Bai Zhi stopped playing, asked Nan Xunran for his opinion, and celebrated when he called it not bad.
• Bai Zhi conceded the match to Wen Rong after asking whether he was Nan Xunran’s younger brother and hearing him confirm it.

Bai Zhi openly declared her love for Nan Xunran and tried to win his favor with a bold gesture. Nan Xunran stayed distant, while Bai Zhi returned to the Bai Clan pleased with herself.

• Bai Zhi asked Wen Rong to let her win and put in a good word for her with Nan Xunran, then admitted she was in love with him.
• Bai Wanying told Nan Xiao that Bai Zhi collected Nan Xunran's portraits and had his likeness carved on her pipa.
• After the competition, Bai Zhi asked Nan Xunran whether she could win his favor, then pressed her hand against his and made a soft kissing sound.
• Nan Xunran withdrew his hand, and Nan Luoning wiped it while glaring angrily at Bai Zhi.
• Bai Zhi winked at Nan Xunran and left, telling the Bai Clan disciples that being bold gave them a chance to get what they wanted.

Nan Wang returned early and reunited with Nan Xunran, bringing him an eight-tailed Nine-Tailed Fox. He said the Demon Race had apparently abandoned the fox, which whined at his words.

• Nan Xiao and Bai Wanying saw Nan Xunran after the competition, and Nan Luoning explained that he had kissed his own hand.
• Nan Xiao told Nan Xunran that Little Wang would return in a few days.
• Nan Wang surprised Nan Xunran by returning early and greeted him affectionately in the Divine Son Hall.
• Nan Wang’s spider and snake came out, and the snake crawled onto Nan Xunran’s hand.
• Nan Wang summoned a Nine-Tailed Fox with eight tails and said he had found it and believed the Demon Race had abandoned it.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox whimpered after Nan Wang said it might have been abandoned.

Nan Wang returned to Nan Xunran, gave him a Nine-Tailed Fox he had captured, and handed over treasures from the Dao lineages he had destroyed. Nan Xunran healed the fox, and three days later she appeared as Hu Xi, while Nan Wang mistook her presence for a threat to him.

• Nan Wang told Nan Xunran that the injured Nine-Tailed Fox was his and pressed a storage bag of treasures into his hand.
• Nan Wang explained that he had struck the fox when she resisted being brought back, and Nan Xunran healed her injuries with a gentle glow.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox recognized Nan Xunran as the Nan Clan's divine son and remained resentful of Nan Wang.
• Three days later, Hu Xi revealed herself as the Nine-Tailed Fox, and Nan Wang anxiously asked where Nan Xunran was.
• Nan Xunran appeared and said he had been taking a bath, then exchanged a look with Hu Xi.

Hu Xi asked Nan Xunran to help her reclaim leadership of the Nine-Tailed Clan from her elder brother and offered the clan’s submission in return. Nan Xunran accepted, leaving Hu Xi relieved and Nan Wang ready to deal with her brother.

• Nan Xunran recognized Hu Xi as the Nine-Tailed Clan’s current leader from their brief meeting years earlier.
• Hu Xi explained that her supporters had been restrained and that her elder brother would take over if she died while her father remained in seclusion.
• Nan Xunran said Hu Xi should offer something in return for the Nan Clan’s help, and Hu Xi proposed that the Nine-Tailed Clan submit to him.
• Hu Xi knelt and declared that the Nine-Tailed Clan would willingly follow Nan Xunran.
• Nan Xunran accepted, and Nan Wang offered to deal with Hu Xi’s elder brother.

Hu Xi led Nan Xunran and Nan Wang into the Nine-Tailed Clan, where Hu Xuan prepared to resist the Nan Clan's arrival. Hu Xi then announced that the Nine-Tailed Clan would formally submit to the Nan Clan's Divine Son.

• Hu Xunran agreed to let Hu Xi lead the way to her clan.
• Hu Xuan learned that Hu Xi had been taken by Nan Wang and hoped she would not return, while insisting the clan would never submit to the Nan Clan.
• Hu Xuan was told that three people had activated the Nine-Tailed Clan's formation and feared Hu Xi had persuaded the Nan Clan to intervene.
• Hu Xi brought Nan Xunran and Nan Wang through the formation into the Nine-Tailed Clan's peach-tree grounds.
• Hu Xuan confronted Hu Xi for bringing outsiders, and Hu Xi declared that the Nine-Tailed Clan would submit to the Nan Clan's Divine Son.

Hu Xi and Nan Wang defeated Hu Xuan’s forces, but Hu Xuan burned his origin and attacked Nan Xunran in desperation. Nan Xunran summoned a phantom whose enormous finger descended toward Hu Xuan.

• Hu Xi declared she would reclaim the clan leader position, and Hu Xuan ordered his people to attack.
• Nan Wang and Hu Xi defeated the attackers, while Nan Xunran’s cold gaze unnerved Hu Xuan.
• Nan Wang revealed himself as the Poison Young Master and threatened to use Hu Xuan to test his poisons.
• Hu Xuan burned his origin and charged at Nan Xunran, hoping to seize the Nan Clan’s divine son.
• Nan Xunran summoned an illusory figure that pressed an enormous finger down toward Hu Xuan.

Nan Xunran killed Hu Xuan, then restored him so Nan Wang could use him to test poisons. After Hu Xi reclaimed her clan’s patriarch token, Nan Xunran and Nan Wang set off to find Second, who had drawn attention by killing Shen Clan members.

• Hu Xuan was shocked by Nan Xunran’s God King Realm spiritual power and was crushed under his finger.
• Nan Xunran restored Hu Xuan from a puddle of flesh, leaving him alive but without his legs, and Nan Wang seized him for poison testing.
• Hu Xi refused to save Hu Xuan and retrieved her clan’s patriarch token while Nan Wang briefly took Hu Xuan out of the bag.
• Hu Xi thanked Nan Xunran, and Nan Wang suggested they join Second, whose attacks on the Shen Clan had exposed her whereabouts.
• Nan Xunran agreed to go with Nan Wang to find Second.

After Nan Xunran warned Hu Xi about the Nine-Tailed Clan, Shen Tan revealed to Qin Xizhi that he had learned a stolen secret technique from his master, a fugitive from the Departed Souls Bureau. Wei Yan recalled that Nan Xunran was the bureau’s true master and ordered her forces to surround the Qin Clan so she could save Nan Shuang.

• Nan Xunran warned Hu Xi that the Nine-Tailed Clan would be destroyed if it failed to grow stronger before they met again.
• Qin Xizhi found Shen Tan badly wounded, and he told her that his master had stolen a secret technique from the Departed Souls Bureau and passed it on to him.
• Shen Tan admitted that he had knowingly learned the technique, arguing with Qin Xizhi before she helped him inside to treat his wound.
• A scout reported to Wei Yan that Shen Tan was hiding with the Qin Clan.
• Wei Yan recalled that Shen Tan would harm Nan Shuang and that Nan Xunran was the true master of the Departed Souls Bureau, then ordered her forces to surround the Qin Clan.