Recaps

The Jiangnan factions entered the Carp Demon General’s mausoleum and began dividing Shu Mountain’s treasure, while the Old Guard Captain hesitated to let the Extreme Demon Guard join them. The treasures suddenly transformed into energy and exploded, unleashing a column of Netherworld Qi that engulfed the mausoleum and struck cultivators beyond it.

• The Old Flood Dragon, Hui Chun Men’s woman, and the old Daoist agreed to divide the mausoleum’s treasure rather than fight, and the Old Flood Dragon killed a Tiger Demon who challenged the arrangement.
• The Old Guard Captain held the Extreme Demon Guard outside despite a scout’s report, but finally let them enter after his successor objected.
• The Old Flood Dragon chose a treasured sword as the Extreme Demon Guard arrived at the mausoleum.
• The treasures lost their forms and erupted in a massive explosion that spread black ripples and sent a three-hundred-zhang column of Netherworld Qi into the sky.
• The blast tore through space, drew in spiritual energy from across the region, and hurled the Old Guard Captain away.

Li Xuanxiao condensed a golden core using the Myriad Souls Banner, then encountered and fought the wounded Old Guard Captain. A hidden Li Xuanxiao watched another version of himself wield the banner and decided to reclaim it.

• Li Xuanxiao absorbed soul essences into the Myriad Souls Banner and condensed a golden core.
• The Old Guard Captain survived the explosion but was gravely injured and feared the Shu Mountain Remnants.
• Li Xuanxiao, disguised as a silver-haired old man, confronted the Old Guard Captain and attacked him.
• The hidden Li Xuanxiao saw his double wield the Myriad Souls Banner and watched in confusion.
• Li Xuanxiao defeated the Old Guard Captain and absorbed his divine soul into the banner.
• The hidden Li Xuanxiao formed a hand seal and sent his clone to reclaim the Myriad Souls Banner.

Ling Xuanxiao fought another version of himself, who wielded the Myriad Souls Banner and used a formation he had once improved. After the other Ling Xuanxiao escaped, Ling Xuanxiao concluded that he was the Corpse.

• A clone poisoned Ling Xuanxiao's ankle while another attacked with a lotus-shaped hidden weapon, which he blocked using a summoned soul.
• The other Ling Xuanxiao trapped him in the Big Dipper Subduing Demons Array, but Ling Xuanxiao used the Reverse Big Dipper Maze Steps to disrupt and collapse it.
• A sword-wielding Ling Xuanxiao emerged from the ground, and the two fought as Ling Xuanxiao's Nascent Soul joined the battle.
• Both Ling Xuanxiaos suspected the other was an Inner Demon, and the one holding the Myriad Souls Banner escaped into black mist.
• Ling Xuanxiao recalled his missing memories, his survival after Shu Mountain's destruction, and Di Nüfeng's strange behavior, then concluded that he was the Corpse.

After learning he was one of the Three Corpses, Ling Xuanxiao embraced his identity and slaughtered the Jiangnan Region’s major forces, while the main body recognized him as a growing threat and sought help to sever him. Traveling in disguise toward the Heavenly Fiend Hall, Ling Xuanxiao noticed a young boy practicing swordsmanship outside his window.

• Ling Xuanxiao recovered from the shock of learning he was a Three Corpse and resolved to pursue power in his own way.
• Ling Xuanxiao attacked the Pure Water Palace and massacred the Jiangnan Region’s major forces, raising his cultivation to the peak of the Golden Core Realm.
• The main body realized Ling Xuanxiao was likely the Self Corpse and decided to find someone powerful to help sever the Three Corpses.
• Disguised as a silver-haired old man, Ling Xuanxiao traveled with a merchant caravan toward the Heavenly Fiend Hall as wanted posters spread across the Cultivation World.
• At a town controlled by a Nascent Soul Realm demon, Ling Xuanxiao saw the family’s young son practicing sword moves outside his window and looked back at the boy.

Li Xuanxiao passed a Nameless Sword Manual to a youth, then returned to Heavenly Fiend Hall and told Di Nüfeng that his escaped Self Corpse had to be captured. He asked her to keep his presence secret, unaware that Yin Lingzi had already ordered someone to spread the news.

• Li Xuanxiao taught a sword-wielding youth and gave him a Nameless Sword Manual, remembering his master's words about changing the future.
• Li Xuanxiao arrived at Heavenly Fiend Hall, showed the guards the sect master's token, and entered after Yin Lingzi claimed he was an assassin.
• Yin Lingzi ordered a subordinate to spread the news that Shushan Disciples were being hidden in Heavenly Fiend Hall.
• Li Xuanxiao privately told Di Nüfeng that the person she had met before was his escaped Self Corpse and asked her to help capture him.
• Li Xuanxiao warned Di Nüfeng that Yin Lingzi might reveal his presence, but Di Nüfeng insisted that Yin Lingzi would obey her.

Li Xuanxiao persuaded Di Nüfeng that Yin Lingzi was plotting to expose the Shushan Disciples, and she killed him. The next day, Li Xuanxiao and Di Nüfeng traveled to Yellow Sand City to search for his Self Corpse, where Li Xuanxiao bought an inn as a way to hide and wait.

• Li Xuanxiao convinced Di Nüfeng that Yin Lingzi's attempt to send word about the Shushan Disciples was a scheme to bring down Heavenly Fiend Hall.
• Di Nüfeng seized Yin Lingzi and shattered him despite his pleas and attempts to escape.
• Li Xuanxiao told Di Nüfeng he would have to search for his Self Corpse himself, since the Myriad Souls Banner could reveal its location only once.
• Li Xuanxiao and Di Nüfeng arrived in Yellow Sand City and decided to conceal themselves while waiting for a chance to find the Self Corpse.
• Li Xuanxiao told the inn's waiter to summon the proprietor because he intended to buy the inn.

Li Xuanxiao bought an inn in Yellow Sand City to wait for his Self Corpse, while keeping his identity and power concealed. After a Yellow Sand Sect master sensed something near the sect’s ancestral shrine, Li Xuanxiao hid inside a puppet.

• Li Xuanxiao bought an inn, learned about Yellow Sand City and its rulers, and stabilized his cultivation without advancing toward Spirit Transformation.
• Li Xuanxiao opened the inn with his clones, and Di Nüfeng reluctantly joined him as an innkeeper after amusing herself with customers for two days.
• Three Yellow Sand Sect disciples arrived and expected to eat and drink without paying, prompting Di Nüfeng to glare at them.
• Li Xuanxiao sneaked into the Yellow Sand Sect at night and saw three Shushan Disciples’ corpses displayed above its ancestral shrine.
• After sensing a sweep of Spiritual Sense, Li Xuanxiao hid underground inside a puppet as the Yellow Sand Sect master wondered whether he had sensed something.

Huang Chengan met with Gou Shengzi, who warned him to look for the Myriad Souls Banner and capture any Shu Mountain remnant alive. Meanwhile, Li Xuanxiao investigated the Snake People Tribe and discovered figures capturing Snake People to refine Demon Cores.

• Ling Xuanxiao sensed something wrong near the Yellow Sand Sect and turned back before Huang Chengan detected him.
• Gou Shengzi told Huang Chengan that Shu Mountain remnants had appeared in Jiangnan and ordered him to question any captured remnant about the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Li Xuanxiao watched Di Nüfeng enjoy running the inn, then planned to investigate the Snake People Tribe and search for his Self Corpse.
• Li Xuanxiao left the city alone at dusk and followed a group of black-robed figures capturing Snake People.
• Li Xuanxiao realized the black-robed figures intended to refine Demon Cores from the Snake People.

Li Xuanxiao followed black-robed men who were abducting Snake People and discovered their mysterious master had set up a formation around a cave. While testing his natal flying sword in the desert, he accidentally saved the pursued snake woman Xiao Qing, who woke to find the mirror fragment she had carried was missing.

• Li Xuanxiao watched black-robed men capture Snake People, then followed them to a cave where their master revealed he knew someone was trailing them.
• Li Xuanxiao bypassed the cave's formations with his Spiritual Sense but found it empty, then continued through the desert and prepared to summon his natal flying sword.
• Xiao Qing fled from pursuers, and Li Xuanxiao's uncontrolled golden flying sword veered away from her but struck the leading pursuer and drove the others off.
• Li Xuanxiao tended to the unconscious Xiao Qing and found a mysterious mirror fragment at her waist that he suspected had made her a target.
• Xiao Qing woke, realized the mirror fragment was gone, and angrily rose to confront the person who had saved her.

Li Xuanxiao captured Xiao Qing after identifying her as a Golden Family guard who had stolen a fragment of the Burial Dust Samsara Mirror. The Snake God punished Xiao Qing’s family in a misunderstanding and demanded the fragment’s return, while Li Xuanxiao learned that Nangong Wan was still bound to him by a Gu Worm.

• Li Xuanxiao recognized the mirror fragment and questioned Xiao Qing about stealing it from the Snake People Tribe.
• Li Xuanxiao dragged Xiao Qing underground and took her toward Yellow Sand City.
• The Snake God ordered the tribe to find Xiao Qing and threatened her family until a leader explained that she had stolen the fragment to avenge her parents.
• The Snake God devoured Xiao Qing’s family, then ordered the leaders to tell her that her enemies were dead and demand the fragment back.
• Li Xuanxiao questioned Nangong Wan, who revealed that he had forced her into serving him by planting a Gu Worm.

Ling Xuanxiao sought the Burial Dust Samsara Mirror while keeping Xiao Qing under guard and learning the legend behind the treasure. The chapter left Yellow Sand City in uproar after Huang Chengan announced that Shu Mountain Remnants were hiding there.

• Ling Xuanxiao ordered Nangong Wan to investigate Huang Chengan, the Yellow Sand Sect's master, in Yellow Sand City.
• Xiao Qing woke in Di Nüfeng's room and was immobilized when she tried to escape.
• Ling Xuanxiao told Xiao Qing her family had been killed by the Snake God and offered her a way to avoid capture in exchange for the Burial Dust Samsara Mirror.
• Xiao Qing revealed the legend that the Ancient Snake God used the mirror and sacrifices to become immortal, and that her Golden Family guarded it.
• Huang Chengan's sand statue came alive and announced to Yellow Sand City's citizens that Shu Mountain Remnants were in the city.

Huang Chengan publicly taunted Li Xuanxiao, revealed his master Gou Shengzi’s role in Shu Mountain’s destruction, and displayed the corpses of Shu Mountain disciples to lure Li out. As Nangong Wan learned Li’s identity and Xiao Qing agreed to help him find the Burial Dust Samsara Mirror, Li’s avatar sensed the Self Corpse entering the inn.

• Huang Chengan announced that Li Xuanxiao was in Yellow Sand City and challenged him to come to the Yellow Sand Sect for revenge.
• Nangong Wan realized that Li Xuanxiao was a Shu Mountain disciple after hearing Huang Chengan’s speech.
• Huang Chengan dropped the corpses of Shu Mountain disciples from the sky and taunted Li to retrieve them.
• Xiao Qing recognized Li Xuanxiao as a disciple of Silver Sword Peak and offered to help him find the Burial Dust Samsara Mirror in exchange for safe passage from Yellow Sand City.
• Li Xuanxiao’s avatar froze when the Self Corpse swaggered into the inn.

Li Xuanxiao’s Self Corpse openly attacked the Yellow Sand Sect disciples at an inn, prompting Li Xuanxiao and Di Nüfeng to reveal themselves and intervene. As Huang Chengan called for his senior brother, a gigantic face made of lightning appeared in the sky.

• Li Xuanxiao recognized his Self Corpse entering the inn with Nangong Wan and realized it was making no effort to hide.
• Zhang Yuanying identified Self Corpse Li Xuanxiao, who killed two disciples and pierced Zhang Yuanying’s chest before unleashing the Myriad Souls Banner on the others.
• Li Xuanxiao confronted his Self Corpse, and Di Nüfeng emerged; her Dharma Eyes confirmed that both Li Xuanxiaos were real.
• Huang Chengan arrived and attacked, but Di Nüfeng shattered his lightning with a punch and sent him flying.
• Huang Chengan called out to his senior brother, and an enormous face formed from lightning appeared in the sky.

Di Nüfeng began crossing her tribulation as Li Xuanxiao and his Self Corpse fought Huang Chengan. After Huang Chengan struck down what appeared to be Li Xuanxiao, the two Li Xuanxiaos joined forces and awakened the Myriad Souls Banner against him.

• Di Nüfeng released her suppressed cultivation and rose toward the enormous lightning palm forming in the clouds.
• Li Xuanxiao used his sword formation and Five Poisons Corrupting Heart Palm to halt Huang Chengan while his Self Corpse drew Huang Chengan away.
• Li Xuanxiao's Self Corpse tried to teleport with the Myriad Souls Banner, but Li Xuanxiao took control of it, leaving Huang Chengan to pierce Li Xuanxiao's body.
• The apparent corpse transformed into poisonous vines that trapped Huang Chengan as Li Xuanxiao and his Self Corpse attacked him from both sides.
• The two Li Xuanxiaos joined forces to wield the Myriad Souls Banner, whose runes flared as they poured spiritual power into it.

Li Xuanxiao escaped Yellow Sand City with Nangong Wan after his Self Corpse fled Huang Chengan and the city descended into chaos. Outside the city, Xiao Qing explained the Snake People Tribe’s moving Shrine, and Li Xuanxiao asked Di Nüfeng if she could locate it.

• Li Xuanxiao failed to reclaim the Myriad Souls Banner as it pulled Self Corpse Li Xuanxiao inside and flew away, then fled when Huang Chengan broke free and unleashed his Dao Domain.
• Huang Chengan’s thunder killed several cultivators, and he returned to Yellow Sand City furious over Zhang Yuanying’s death and the disappearance of the Shu Mountain Disciple’s remains.
• Nangong Wan found Li Xuanxiao after being wounded and trapped in the sealed city; he gave her healing medicine and led her away.
• Li Xuanxiao collected the Shu Mountain Disciple’s remains into the Myriad Souls Banner, and he and Nangong Wan escaped Yellow Sand City through black mist.
• Huang Chengan ordered the Snake People Tribe to search the desert for Li Xuanxiao, promising to help them find the fragment they sought.
• Outside the city, Xiao Qing described the Shrine’s deadly rules and shifting location, and Li Xuanxiao asked Di Nüfeng whether she could sense it.

Xiao Qing led Li Xuanxiao and Di Nüfeng to the hidden entrance of the Snake God's shrine in the desert. With the shrine located, Li Xuanxiao called for reinforcements from the Heavenly Fiend Hall as the group prepared for a dangerous confrontation.

• Xiao Qing revealed that she had tracked the shrine's movements for years and knew where its entrance would appear.
• Half a month later, Xiao Qing guided Di Nüfeng and Li Xuanxiao through the desert and identified the entrance's location.
• Di Nüfeng could sense the shrine only from the precise spot Xiao Qing indicated, and Xiao Qing explained that the entrance would soon disappear.
• Li Xuanxiao judged that Di Nüfeng could not face the Snake God and other powerful cultivators alone, so he asked her to summon the Heavenly Fiend Hall.
• Di Nüfeng said she had already sent Zhang Tianxin a command arrow, crushed her transmission talisman, and the Flying Ships turned back toward them.

Di Nüfeng and the Snake God battled outside the Snake People shrine while Li Xuanxiao entered it with Xiao Qing to claim the Burial Dust Samsara Mirror. Huang Chengan confronted them in the hall, leaving Li Xuanxiao facing a powerful group as he prepared to fight for the mirror.

• Di Nüfeng overwhelmed three Snake People leaders, but Mo Zi arrived from Yellow Sand City to challenge her.
• The Snake God emerged from beneath the earth and attacked Di Nüfeng with flames as the Heavenly Fiend Hall's Four Guardian Vajras approached.
• Li Xuanxiao followed Xiao Qing through the shrine, reached the hall containing the Burial Dust Samsara Mirror, and cut its chains with Sword Qi.
• Huang Chengan entered the hall with seven cultivators and confronted Li Xuanxiao as he caught the falling mirror and shielded Xiao Qing.

Li Xuanxiao escaped the divine shrine with the Burial Dust Samsara Mirror as the Snake God fought Di Nüfeng, only for the Snake God to be revealed as the Mirror Spirit’s vessel. When the Mirror Spirit’s transformation triggered a heavenly tribulation, Li Xuanxiao seized the chance to return his natal True Essence to heaven and earth and prepare to break through into Deity Transformation.

• The Ancient Snake God ordered the nine Snake People leaders to form a formation against Di Nüfeng, while the battle between Heavenly Fiend Hall and the Snake People Tribe continued outside.
• Li Xuanxiao took the Burial Dust Samsara Mirror and fled through the collapsing halls with Xiao Qing’s guidance as Huang Chengan pursued him.
• The colossal serpent manifestation poisoned and wounded Di Nüfeng, but the Snake God turned back toward the shrine after sensing the mirror had been taken.
• A giant hand tore apart the Snake God, and the Mirror Spirit revealed that it had been using the Snake God as a shell to accumulate immortal source and transform into an immortal.
• Heavenly lightning descended as the Mirror Spirit revealed its true form, and Li Xuanxiao returned his hundred years of natal True Essence to heaven and earth to prepare for a Deity Transformation breakthrough.

Li Xuanxiao used the Mirror God's attempt to defy heaven to trigger his own heavenly tribulation, and the two tribulations battered them both. As the Mirror God faced destruction, Li Xuanxiao began forcing his Nascent Soul to transform into a god.

• Li Xuanxiao unleashed his suppressed cultivation as the Mirror God took over the Ancient Snake God's body, causing their heavenly tribulations to overlap.
• The tribulation shattered the Ancient Snake God's body and soul, while Di Nüfeng tried and failed to reach Li Xuanxiao through the lightning.
• A golden wheel of fate appeared, and a second, more powerful wave of tribulation struck the Mirror God and Li Xuanxiao.
• The Ancient Snake God's remains vanished, and a pale, hairless person crawled out from within them.
• The tribulation showed the Mirror God visions of his past and future deaths, cracking his Dao heart as white lights rained down upon him.
• With the Mirror God near defeat, Li Xuanxiao clenched his fist and began breaking through from Nascent Soul toward god transformation.

After killing the Mirror God, Li Xuanxiao absorbed the tribulation lightning and broke through from Nascent Soul to Spirit Transformation. He confronted Huang Chengan, overcame his Snow Mountain Painting, and killed him while Di Nüfeng held Mo Zi back.

• Li Xuanxiao absorbed the tribulation lightning, reforged his body, and reached Spirit Transformation.
• Li Xuanxiao emerged from the ruined shrine and met Huang Chengan’s attack head-on, revealing his newfound strength.
• Huang Chengan summoned a Snow Mountain Painting, and Li Xuanxiao’s golden sword light shattered the manifested mountain.
• Mo Zi charged toward Li Xuanxiao, but Di Nüfeng blocked him and fought him despite the poison spreading through her body.
• Li Xuanxiao pierced Huang Chengan’s throat with Sword Qi and finished him by driving sword light through his skull.

Gou Shengzi divined that a Shushan Remnant could one day kill him after Huang Chengan’s death, while Li Xuanxiao stayed in Yellow Sand City. Nangong Wan escaped Li Xuanxiao and returned to find her parents dead and her uncle leading the Nangong Lineage, then fainted.

• Gou Shengzi learned that Huang Chengan had been killed by a Shushan Disciple and divined that this person might one day kill him.
• Nangong Wan received a letter saying her parents had died and concealed her distress from Li Xuanxiao.
• Li Xuanxiao reflected on the impact of Huang Chengan’s death and welcomed the fear it would spread among his enemies.
• Nangong Wan dug the Gu Worm from her body, escaped Li Xuanxiao, and traveled home.
• Nangong Wan found her family in mourning and learned that Nangong Lin had become the Lineage head.
• Madam Sun bluntly confirmed Nangong Wan’s parents were dead, and Nangong Wan fainted.

Nangong Wan was forced by Nangong Lin and Madam Sun to marry Sun Shoucai and change her surname, but she killed him on their wedding night. As Nangong Lin struck her amid the ensuing attack, Li Xuanxiao appeared to protect her and told her to call him Master.

• Nangong Wan refused to marry Sun Shoucai, but Nangong Lin had her confined and Madam Sun urged him to secure their position by changing her surname.
• Two months later, Madam Sun sent Nangong Wan to marry Sun Shoucai, and Nangong Lin announced that she would take the Sun surname and eventually be removed from the family register.
• On their wedding night, Sun Shoucai entered the bridal chamber and tore away Nangong Wan's veil, but she killed him with a flash of light.
• Covered in blood and surrounded by attackers, Nangong Wan ran out of strength, and Nangong Lin struck at her with his palm.
• Li Xuanxiao appeared in front of Nangong Wan, who recognized him, and told her to call him Master.

Li Xuanxiao intervened when Nangong Lin tried to kill Nangong Wan, then slaughtered the Nangong and Sun family members who attacked them. Afterward, he left Nangong Wan alive, while Di Nüfeng continued to suffer from her wound and Li Xuanxiao took precautions against Heavenly Dao suppression.

• Li Xuanxiao caught Nangong Lin's strike against Nangong Wan and sent him flying.
• Li Xuanxiao defeated the Nangong clansmen and cut down the Sun family members who rushed to attack.
• Nangong Lin tried to placate Li Xuanxiao and invite Nangong Wan home, but Li Xuanxiao struck him down despite Nangong Wan's plea.
• Li Xuanxiao kicked Nangong Wan away and left her alive; she accepted that he had saved her and faced the deaths of her family.
• Di Nüfeng coughed up poisonous blood from her unhealed wound and avoided Li Xuanxiao, who continued cultivating and sealed his Primordial Spirit's aura to reduce the risk of Heavenly Dao suppression.

Li Xuanxiao found Di Nüfeng gravely poisoned by the Ancient Snake God's Natal Snake Poison and searched for a cure. He discovered a way to detoxify her, but it required two exceptionally rare ingredients, and he promised she would not die while he was there.

• Li Xuanxiao planned to leave seclusion for ancient battlefield ruins, but Zhang Tianxin told him something had happened to Di Nüfeng.
• Li Xuanxiao entered Di Nüfeng's bedchamber and found her weakened, with bluish-purple veins and a foul-smelling wound.
• Li Xuanxiao realized Di Nüfeng had been poisoned by the Ancient Snake God and examined her severe injuries.
• After half a month of research and travel, Li Xuanxiao identified the poison as Natal Snake Poison, which had taken root in Di Nüfeng's nine vital acupoints and consumed her lifespan.
• Li Xuanxiao found a detoxification method, but it required scarce ingredients, including one unavailable in the Central Continent.
• Di Nüfeng asked if she would die, and Li Xuanxiao promised she would not while he was there.

Li Xuanxiao and Zhang Tianxin fought their way out of a trap while buying supplies to treat Di Nüfeng’s poisoning. With Extreme Toad Poison still missing, Li Xuanxiao set out with Di Nüfeng for the northern frozen lands, while Heaven’s Secrets Tower identified her condition and sent Mo Zi after them.

• Li Xuanxiao spotted a fake Blood Spirit Crystal during a trade, then he and Zhang Tianxin were ambushed aboard the merchant vessel and fought their way free.
• Zhang Tianxin told an enemy that the Heavenly Fiend Hall was not finished, though the hall was suffering losses and unrest under pursuit by the Extreme Demon Guard.
• Li Xuanxiao found that Extreme Toad Poison was the only required ingredient still missing and decided to search the northern frozen lands himself.
• Li Xuanxiao warned Di Nüfeng not to use spiritual power, disguised her with a headscarf, and departed with her several days later.
• Gou Shengzi concluded that Di Nüfeng had been poisoned by the Snake God's natal venom and ordered Mo Zi to pursue Li Xuanxiao and bring back his corpse.