Recaps

Li Xuanxiao and his allies prepared to oppose the Old Emperor while he pursued a Nascent Soul breakthrough and became entangled in Di Nüfeng’s struggle to retain control of Heavenly Fiend Hall. The Old Emperor moved to defend Great Xia’s Dragon Vein and discovered that Li Xuanxiao was a transmigrator.

• Ling Xuanxiao gathered Jia Sidao, Di Nüfeng, Liu Qiushui, and Great Sui’s support for a plan against the Old Emperor, while the Old Emperor began hunting Tribulation Crossing Stage cultivators.
• Zhang Haoran pursued Hou Tianlai after a village massacre, but the old monk at Cliff Suppressing Temple protected Hou until Li Xuanxiao arrived and killed the criminals posing as monks.
• Li Xuanxiao traveled to the Southern Border seeking a Space Gu, then learned that the Blackwater Cavern Cave Master was sacrificing people to refine gu and saw Shu Mountain attack the cavern.
• Ling Xuanxiao used divination to expose the Sun family’s tangled relationships, and Xiao Ran received the Purple Gold Gourd before Li Xuanxiao secretly took it back to Shu Mountain.
• Li Xuanxiao deceived his fellow disciples and entered seclusion on a remote ice field, where he survived a deadly tribulation and broke through to the Nascent Soul Stage.
• Di Nüfeng blocked the tribulation’s killing strike, then escaped with Li Xuanxiao from the Old Emperor and a black-robed pursuer, and she explained that her Deputy Cult Master had turned the Four Guardian Vajras against her.
• The Old Emperor used the Myriad Souls Banner to harvest cultivation, while Li Xuanxiao agreed to help the injured Di Nüfeng and persuaded her to delay reclaiming Heavenly Fiend Hall for a trip to Divine Grass Mountain.
• Great Sui massed forces at the border as Great Xia guarded its Dragon Vein, and the Old Emperor recognized a poem Zhao Lu had learned from Li Xuanxiao and realized he was a transmigrator.

Li Xuanxiao and his allies brought down the Old Emperor, who left Li Xuanxiao his inheritance and a dangerous path toward ascension. In the aftermath, Zhao Lu claimed Great Xia’s throne, Lin Wanqing made amends over Fanyue, and Li Xuanxiao set out with Di Nüfeng to find him.

• The Old Emperor pursued Li Xuanxiao to Divine Grass Mountain, where Elder Sun, the Sword Spirit, and Di Nüfeng fought him while Li Xuanxiao’s allies drained Great Xia’s Dragon Vein.
• Zhang Haoran brought Liu Qiushui to the Dragon Vein, where she absorbed its Dragon Qi and damaged the Old Emperor’s fortune, weakening his cultivation.
• Liu Qiushui exposed Zhang Haoran as Li Xuanxiao’s avatar and killed him, while the Old Emperor used the Myriad Souls Banner to overwhelm his opponents and restore his strength.
• Lingxu entered the battle and defeated the Old Emperor, who sacrificed himself in an attempt to destroy Li Xuanxiao’s Nascent Soul and leave him the Myriad Souls Banner and his inheritance.
• Zhao Lu received her father’s letter and succession edict, while Lin Wanqing restored Fanyue’s body and sent him to be reborn before returning to Shu Mountain and severing her arm to apologize to Li Xuanxiao.
• Zhao Lu chose to rule Great Xia, and Lingxu and Li Xuanxiao arrived with seven Tribulation Crossing Great Powers as she began her coronation.
• Two years later, Di Nüfeng rescued Li Xuanxiao from Blood Disciple Hand and the demons who had betrayed him.
• Li Xuanxiao told Di Nüfeng they needed to find Fanyue before planning to reclaim Heavenly Fiend Hall, and they headed north after her compass failed to locate him.

Li Xuanxiao exposed Liu Yi’s betrayal, confronted the cost of vengeance, and became entangled in new threats as sects fell across the Central Continent. The stretch ended with deadly attacks on three sects and rumors blaming both Heavenly Fiend Hall and Shu Mountain.

• Li Xuanxiao confirmed that Cheng Tianyou was Fanyue reborn, but Fanyue’s phantom and heavenly lightning stopped his assassination attempt before Li Xuanxiao’s Nascent Soul finally destroyed him.
• Li Xuanxiao and Di Nüfeng uncovered that Liu Yi was Heavenly Fiend Hall’s Deputy Cult Master, and Liu Yi died after Li Xuanxiao threatened Wang Yushu.
• Li Xuanxiao faced the Li Yu Bird, whose family had been killed with impunity, and watched it take revenge on Chu Feng and Zhao Ying before killing itself.
• Li Xuanxiao accepted the Demonic Bird Murder Case and learned that the Li Yu Bird’s turn to murder had followed the killing of its family and the failure of human justice.
• Fox Face witnessed the Golden Thunder Sect massacre and the Immortal Cloud Sect’s destruction, then joined Li Xuanxiao and Lu Ziyin as they investigated the attacks.
• After thirteen nearby sects were found responsible for destroying the Immortal Cloud Sect, Lu Ziyin left Qingcheng Sect when its members challenged Shu Mountain’s search.
• Fox Face rode away without noticing a tiny creature hidden in his horse, and half a month later deadly attacks struck Five Peaks Mountain, Qingcheng Sect, and Xiaoyao Sect, prompting rumors that Shu Mountain or Heavenly Fiend Hall was responsible.

Li Xuanxiao’s schemes unfolded alongside mounting threats to Shu Mountain as disasters ravaged Central Continent and the Demon Race invaded Cangzhou. Lingxu fought the demon army while the Xuantian Sword Sect betrayed Shu Mountain and slaughtered its branch.

• Li Xuanxiao captured Fox Face, whose visions of repeated deaths failed to reveal the truth before hidden characters in his dantian destroyed him.
• Xiao Ran defeated Su Wan, then lost Elder Soul to a black-robed attacker and returned to cultivation to find a clue pointing to Soul Hall.
• Zhang Haoran inscribed the Four Sentences of Hengqu, shattered the remaining imperial steles, and impressed White Egret Academy’s scholars.
• Lu Ziyin, Li Xuanxiao, and allies from Great Sui and Great Xia raided an assassin branch, while Gou Shengzi and Happy Old Man set their plan to bring down Shu Mountain in motion.
• Li Xuanxiao helped Di Nüfeng reorganize Heavenly Fiend Hall and took the Sword Spirit to Shu Mountain’s Sword Tomb as he prepared for threats against the sect.
• A blood moon, deadly rain, earthfire, and Netherworld floods struck Central Continent, and Li Xuanxiao recognized Old Zhang among those killed by the flood.
• The Demon Race and Water Tribe invaded Cangzhou as Burial Soldier City vanished, and Lingxu fought the demon kings and their army despite Li Xuanxiao’s warning about a trap.
• Dugu Wudi poisoned and killed Sixth Senior Brother, then the Xuantian Sword Sect attacked and massacred its Shu Mountain branch as Qin Wenke escaped.