Recaps

Zhou Ping arrived in Anta County and set out to slay the Wind God while Chen Han and Lu Yu gathered the unconscious residents. Meanwhile, Cao Yuan broke through to the Sea realm, and Lin Qiye’s team prepared for its final challenge to become a Special Squad.

• Zhou Ping introduced himself to Chen Han as an independent Forbidden Ruins wielder who had come to help.
• Chen Han asked Zhou Ping to help carry unconscious pedestrians into shelter, but Zhou Ping said he would do so after returning from slaying the Wind God.
• Cao Yuan broke through to the Sea realm aboard the team’s plane, and Baili Pangpang stopped him from drawing his blade in midair.
• Lin Qiye reviewed the requirements for Special Squad status and said the team still had to pass its final challenge against Shangjing City’s 006 Squad.
• Baili Pangpang suggested possible squad names and asked for a code name before Lin Qiye urged everyone to prepare for the challenge.
• Lin Qiye closed his eyes and entered the Psychiatric Hospital in his mind.

Nyx gave Lin Qiye a hand-knitted overcoat, and Merlin revealed that making it had weakened her soul as she struggled to suppress her power. Lin Qiye then confronted the Red-eyed Black Shadow, who said a great existence had guided its actions and arranged its arrival in the world.

• Nyx showed Lin Qiye the black overcoat she had knitted for him, and he thanked her for the warmth it brought him.
• Nyx invited Lin Qiye to lunch, but he declined because he had an important assessment and left for the Director's Office.
• Merlin told Nyx that weaving her divine power into the overcoat had damaged her soul and would prevent her from recovering her peak strength.
• Lin Qiye visited the Red-eyed Black Shadow in its cell and accused it of hiding for twelve years to reach the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods.
• The Red-eyed Black Shadow said a great existence had guided its actions, and Lin Qiye asked who He was.

Lin Qiye learned that someone close to him was going to die and woke on the plane holding a Wooden Chopstick. In the Mist, Zhou Ping returned badly wounded after driving off the Wind God and told Chen Han and Lu Yu to go home.

• The Red-eyed Black Shadow told Lin Qiye that an unnamed ally would always stand by him, then revealed that someone was going to die.
• Lin Qiye woke on the plane, found a Wooden Chopstick against his chest, and stood frozen as he looked at it.
• Chen Han and Lu Yu watched the city of ghostly light shake during the battle between the Sword Saint and the Wind God, then feared the city would fall.
• Zhou Ping staggered back into the city covered in blood, and Chen Han and Lu Yu supported him.
• Zhou Ping said the Wind God had retreated and told Chen Han and Lu Yu to go home.

Lin Qiye learned that the Red-eyed Black Shadow’s master had arranged to save him from being erased with Cangnan and set him on the path to becoming the Seraph’s Agent. He was left wondering what price the being had paid and why it had always stood by his side.

• Lin Qiye questioned the Red-eyed Black Shadow about a prediction that someone would die, and it explained how fate could be changed at a cost.
• Lin Qiye allowed the Red-eyed Black Shadow to stay at the hospital and asked what it had done when it descended on Cangnan twelve years earlier.
• The Red-eyed Black Shadow said it had found Jinian and delivered a letter and a diagram of the Three Saints Spirit Communication Array.
• Lin Qiye connected the array and the three divine artifacts to his survival when Shiva’s Grudge erased Cangnan, and to his receiving the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods.
• Lin Qiye realized the being behind the Red-eyed Black Shadow had altered his fate, but could not understand its motive or the price it had paid.

Lin Qiye recruited the Red-eyed Black Shadow as orderly Black Pupil, who warned him against changing Zhou Ping’s fate. As Lin Qiye and the Fifth Reserve Team arrived in Shangjing for a confrontation with 006 Squad, Lin Qiye warned that the Sword Saint was in trouble, while Yuan Gang and Shao Pingge prepared for the coming match.

• Lin Qiye gave the Red-eyed Black Shadow a labor agreement, named him Black Pupil, and sent him to meet the other orderlies and patients.
• Black Pupil warned Lin Qiye that changing Zhou Ping’s fate would cost too much, and Lin Qiye vanished without replying.
• Cao Yuan, Baili Pangpang, Shen Qingzhu, An Qingyu, and Lin Qiye traveled through rainy Shangjing, where Lin Qiye announced that the Sword Saint was going to be in trouble.
• At 006 Squad headquarters, Yuan Gang told Shao Pingge that the confrontation with the Fifth Reserve Team was scheduled for nine the next morning.
• Shao Pingge urged Yuan Gang to take time to meet his former students, then insisted he could handle the squad’s work while Yuan Gang went for a drink.

At the City of the Sun, the Sun God learned that Xiu had lost Emperor Fengdu and a city fragment to a human swordsman. The Sun God ordered the Nine Pillars to launch a coordinated campaign against Great Xia and keep its vulnerabilities secret from rival divine kingdoms.

• Xiu told the gods that Great Xia had taken Emperor Fengdu and that a human with a sword had defeated him.
• The other gods mocked Xiu until he erupted with divine power, and the Sun God silenced the conflict and demanded that Xiu admit his failure.
• The Sun God ordered Set and Xiu to retrieve the city fragment with Amon and then begin the National Destiny Curse against Great Xia.
• The Sun God ordered Tefnut, Geb, Nut, and Isis to attack Great Xia's border together, while avoiding its core and targeting a second Dragon Vein if necessary.
• The Sun God told the gods to conceal that Great Xia's gods could not act, intending to conquer Great Xia before rival divine kingdoms learned the truth.

Ye Fan secured absolute command over the Night Watchmen and learned from Lin Qiye that Zhou Ping was in danger inside the mist. He prepared Great Xia for a national crisis and contacted someone through a strange pixel-style walkie-talkie.

• Ye Fan won five votes in favor of taking full control of the Night Watchmen during the coming crisis.
• Lin Qiye told Ye Fan that Zhou Ping might die inside the mist, and Ye Fan refused to postpone the assessment for a rescue attempt.
• Ye Fan told Zuo Qing to summon Guan Zai, send every Human Apex except Zhou Ping to Great Xia's borders, and wake Special Squad No. 001.
• Ye Fan opened a hidden safe in his office, took out a pixel-style walkie-talkie, and asked its recipient to repay an old favor.

Lin Qiye and his companions sought a way to locate the flying city where the Sword Saint was in danger. An Qingyu explained how to find the city's coordinates, but the group lacked a way to reach it through the mist, so they went to meet Yuan Gang for dinner, hoping he could help.

• An Qingyu reasoned that multiple gods might have threatened the Sword Saint, while Lin Qiye and the others lamented that they could not reach him.
• An Qingyu revealed that he could reproduce the Dimensional Summoning Magic Array precisely and use it to determine the flying city's coordinates.
• Lin Qiye received a call from Yuan Gang, who invited the group to dinner, and they decided to go in hopes of getting help.
• Lin Qiye and his companions arrived at the snack street and found Yuan Gang waiting outside King of Barbecue.

During a barbecue with Instructor Yuan, Lin Qiye and the others asked about the Sword Saint’s Forbidden Ruins. Yuan Gang explained that Sequence 333, Glass-like Pure Heart, had helped the Sword Saint immerse himself in fictional sword cultivators’ experiences and develop his sword intent, leaving them with a clearer picture of how he became humanity’s strongest swordsman.

• Yuan Gang reminisced with Lin Qiye’s squad about their time at Training Camp while they ate and drank together.
• Yuan Gang asked about Jiang Er, and she greeted him through her MP3 before teasing him about a woman pinned in his WeChat.
• Lin Qiye asked Yuan Gang what he knew about the Sword Saint and his Forbidden Ruins.
• Yuan Gang revealed that the Sword Saint’s Forbidden Ruins was Sequence 333, Glass-like Pure Heart, which made its owner’s heart and thoughts utterly pure.
• Yuan Gang explained that the Sword Saint immersed himself in the lives of fictional sword cultivators, learned their experiences through novels, and developed sword intent and sword techniques.
• Yuan Gang said the Night Watchmen discovered the Sword Saint after he killed a Sea-realm Mystery with one strike in Xijin City.

Yuan Gang explained how Zhou Ping’s pure nature and childhood trauma shaped his withdrawal and hindered his growth, then Zhou Ping cared for survivors in the mist and remembered how Ye Fan recruited him. The chapter left Zhou Ping agreeing to become Great Xia’s Sword Saint in exchange for the title.

• Yuan Gang told Lin Qiye and the others about Zhou Ping’s childhood abuse, abandonment, and the psychological wounds that obstructed his advancement.
• Jialan condemned the people who had hurt Zhou Ping, and Yuan Gang explained that Commander Ye believed Zhou Ping could overcome his inner barrier and become Great Xia’s hope.
• In the mist, Zhou Ping and Lu Yu brought frozen passersby to a stove while Chen Han rescued three children and asked Lu Yu and Zhou Ping to look after them.
• The children introduced themselves as Li Ruodie, Wang Jiaqi, and Chen Nan, and Lu Yu told them that Zhou Ping was Great Xia’s Sword Saint.
• Remembering his past, Zhou Ping recalled Ye Fan asking him to become the Human Apex, and he agreed only if he could be called Great Xia’s Sword Saint.

Lin Qiye and his teammates insisted they would risk their lives to save the Sword Saint, but Yuan Gang said they could not enter the Mist without Commander Ye’s permission. He then briefed them on the next day’s match to qualify as the Fifth Special Squad, while Shao Pingge watched from the 006 Squad headquarters and reflected on the team.

• Lin Qiye told Yuan Gang that his team would not stand by while their teacher, the Sword Saint, faced death, and explained the losses each teammate had endured.
• The team members affirmed they would try to reach and help the Sword Saint, but Yuan Gang said only Commander Ye could authorize them to enter the Mist.
• Yuan Gang urged the team to rest before their match and explained the forty-eight-hour flag-capturing battle that would determine whether they became the Fifth Special Squad.
• At the 006 Squad headquarters, Shao Pingge realized Yuan Gang had secretly given the team advance information about the match and called them interesting.

Lin Qiye visited the Ancient Ape in the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods before his match and spoke about losing people he cherished, including the Sword Saint. His words awakened the Ancient Ape, who rose and rejected Heavenly Mandate.

• Lin Qiye asked Black Pupil whether he could foresee anything about the objects he carried, but Black Pupil said he could only foresee objects within the hospital.
• Lin Qiye declined Nyx's invitation to stay for lunch because he had a match, then visited the Ancient Ape in Room Four.
• Lin Qiye told the Ancient Ape about watching someone important die and described his guilt over failing to save Old Zhao, his aunt, and the Sword Saint.
• The Ancient Ape's Buddha's Light stirred violently, and his unleashed pressure shook the hospital as Li Yifei, Nyx, and others rushed toward his room.
• Lin Qiye stopped the others from entering as the Ancient Ape rose, faced him, and declared, "To hell with Heavenly Mandate!!"

After the Ancient Ape urged Lin Qiye not to abandon those he cherished, Lin Qiye led his companions to challenge 006 Squad and set out west to save someone. Shao Pingge gave them tools to travel through the Mist, and the Fifth Special Squad vanished into the clouds, with their return still uncertain.

• The Ancient Ape reminded Lin Qiye to save those he cherished, and Lin Qiye received a random Divine Personality ability for Monkey King.
• Lin Qiye proposed a faster contest at Yuan Gang’s courtyard and had Cao Yuan draw his blade, prompting 006 Squad to answer with their own pressure.
• Lin Qiye and his companions unleashed their combined divine might, overwhelming 006 Squad and damaging the courtyard.
• Lin Qiye told Yuan Gang they were going to save someone and declared that they would become Great Xia’s Fifth Special Squad if they returned.
• Shao Pingge gave Lin Qiye’s group seven metal plates that allowed free travel through the Mist and wished them a triumphant return.
• Lin Qiye summoned a Somersault Cloud, and the masked group rode west into the Mist with one coffin.

Guan Zai emerged from nearly three years of seclusion and learned that Zhou Ping had entered the mist to save someone. He wanted to go after Zhou Ping, but Ye Fan insisted he stay to help defend Great Xia against the Egyptian gods, leaving the two at odds.

• Ye Fan learned from Zuo Qing that Lin Qiye's reserve squad, Shao Pingge, and others had entered the northern mist to rescue Zhou Ping, and he ordered Zuo Qing to watch for their return.
• Master Chen teased Ye Fan for acting like a worried father, while Lu Wuwei arrived with milk tea he had been delivering.
• Guan Zai appeared through virtual code, and Ye Fan told him Zhou Ping had gone abroad into the mist to save someone.
• Guan Zai prepared to go help Zhou Ping, but Ye Fan told him he was needed to fulfill the Human Apex's duty and defend Great Xia.
• Guan Zai challenged Ye Fan's certainty that Zhou Ping could manage alone, and Ye Fan declared that Zhou Ping was Great Xia's Sword Saint.
• Master Chen stopped Lu Wuwei from stepping in as Ye Fan and Guan Zai faced off.

Guan Zai accused Ye Fan of forcing Zhou Ping to bear the burden of being the Sword Saint, while Ye Fan defended his choice as Great Xia’s last chance against the gods. As four Egyptian gods approached, the Human Apexes charged to meet them; meanwhile, in the mist, Chen Han worried over Zhou Ping’s grave injuries and offered him a cigarette, which Zhou Ping refused because children were present.

• Guan Zai confronted Ye Fan over the burden placed on Zhou Ping and said Ye Fan had wronged him.
• Ye Fan admitted he owed Zhou Ping but argued that Great Xia had no other chance against the foreign gods.
• Four Egyptian gods approached across the sea, and Ye Fan ordered the Human Apexes to stop them before they reached the city.
• Guan Zai asked Ye Fan if he was confident they could win, then joined Ye Fan, Master Chen, and Lu Wuwei as they charged the gods.
• In the mist, Chen Han told Lu Yu that two divine powers were tearing through Zhou Ping’s body and that he could not treat the injuries.
• Chen Han offered Zhou Ping a cigarette, but Zhou Ping refused and reminded him that children were present.

Zhou Ping reassured the children in the underground garage and reflected on whether Lin Qiye and his students might come to save him. When three gods appeared and attacked Fengdu, he went out to face them as Chen Han, Lu Yu, and the children called on the Great Xia Sword Saint to slay the gods and bring them home.

• Zhou Ping told the children that he was the only Sword Saint and spoke of his students, the Fifth Reserve Team, while doubting they would come to save him.
• A bolt of lightning revealed three figures standing in the sky, and Chen Han recognized them as gods.
• The three gods attacked, shaking Fengdu and bringing buildings down around the underground garage.
• Zhou Ping rose, comforted Li Ruodie, and walked out to confront the gods.
• Chen Han and Lu Yu, followed by the three children, called for the Great Xia Sword Saint to slay the gods; Zhou Ping looked back and continued forward.

Zhou Ping rekindled his love for the people of Great Xia and emerged to face the gods attacking the city, though he remained just short of a breakthrough. He held off Set’s sand attack as Set summoned a vast desert realm and towered over him.

• Hearing the pleas of the Night Watchmen, children, and sleeping citizens, Zhou Ping’s Sword Intent surged and his wounded back straightened.
• Zhou Ping realized he was still short of breaking through his limit, then vanished and appeared before Set, Shu, and Amon.
• Zhou Ping declared himself the Sword Saint of Great Xia and demanded that the gods make way, surprising Shu with his empty hands.
• Set attacked Zhou Ping with a storm of yellow sand, but Zhou Ping’s sword energy kept every grain from coming within three feet of him.
• Set formed a floating desert and a towering Sand Tower, then launched a massive Yellow Sand Palm at Zhou Ping.

Zhou Ping fought his way through Seth’s Great Desert Sand Realm and destroyed the colossal Yellow Sand Giant Beast, then charged at Seth despite the strain on his body. Shu, who had hoped Seth would suffer, finally joined the battle when Seth called for help.

• Amon touched the Fengdu Law with his black scepter, and a curse began seeping toward the primordial mountain range.
• Zhou Ping dodged Seth’s Yellow Sand Palms and cut them apart with his Sword Finger.
• Seth caused the sand to annihilate everything around it, but Zhou Ping repeatedly cut through space to evade the blasts and reach the Sand Tower.
• Seth transformed the Sand Tower into a colossal Yellow Sand Giant Beast, which Zhou Ping destroyed with a storm of sword beams.
• Zhou Ping coughed blood but charged at Seth, prompting Seth to call for Shu’s help.
• Shu paused to savor Seth’s distress, then rode the gale toward Zhou Ping to join the fight.

Zhou Ping fought Set and Shu but was gravely wounded and left unable to slay either god. Just as the gods prepared to kill him in the ruins, seven masked figures arrived and promised to take him home.

• Zhou Ping’s sword attack missed Set, who countered with sand and sealed him inside an enormous coffin.
• Shu and Set attacked together, exhausting Zhou Ping’s sword energy and leaving him severely wounded.
• Set threw a dark golden spear that destroyed Zhou Ping’s right hand and pierced his shoulder, sending him crashing into a ruined city.
• Shu and Set confronted Zhou Ping as he admitted he regretted being unable to reach the level needed to slay a god.
• Seven masked figures arrived riding the clouds and landed beside Zhou Ping.
• The figure wearing the Monkey King Mask patted Zhou Ping’s shoulder and said they had come to take the Sword Saint home.

Lin Qiye and his companions fled from Set and Shu on the Somersault Cloud, using Jialan and a Black Box to delay the gods. The box released Lucifer’s phantom, but Shu immediately tore it apart as the gods continued their pursuit.

• Lin Qiye took Zhou Ping and the others into the sky on the Somersault Cloud as Set hurled a golden sand spear after them.
• Jialan shielded the group from Set’s spear and charged the gods, but Shu’s wind blew her away.
• An Qingyu used invisible threads to reel Jialan back, and Lin Qiye realized the bait had bought them little time.
• Lin Qiye opened the Black Box and released a finger bone that summoned the phantom of Lucifer, provoking a hostile response toward him.
• Shu tore Lucifer’s phantom apart and dismissed it as a remnant of divine consciousness.

As Set and the Wind God trapped Lin Qiye and his companions, Lin Qiye prepared to use the Sword Saint’s sword qi, but Zhou Ping stopped him. Encouraged by Baili Pangpang, Zhou Ping broke through the ceiling that had constrained humanity’s strongest.

• Lucifer’s phantom vanished after warning Lin Qiye that he would come for him.
• Set and the Wind God pursued Lin Qiye’s group and sealed their escape routes with sand and a tornado.
• Lin Qiye raised the Wooden Chopstick containing the Sword Saint’s sword qi, but Zhou Ping lowered his hand and thanked him for coming to save him.
• Baili Pangpang told Zhou Ping that he deserved the care and confidence others gave him.
• Zhou Ping’s glazed heart shone as he broke the genetic shackles that had limited Great Xia’s strongest for over a century.

Zhou Ping discovered that humanity had no law of its own, so he carved the Sword Law into the Great Dao and became a godlike being. He named his realm Mortal World Sword Immortal, while the other divine kingdoms sensed the new law and began to react.

• Zhou Ping saw that the world’s laws were divided among the gods and realized humanity had none of its own.
• Zhou Ping called for a sword, and Lin Qiye gave him Praying Abyss.
• Zhou Ping slashed the Great Dao and created the complete Sword Law, the first law belonging to humanity.
• The gods in Egypt, Norse, Greece, and India sensed the new law, and the Greek ruler decided to move up his plan.
• Zhou Ping told Lin Qiye and Baili Pangpang that humanity no longer had a ceiling and named his realm Mortal World Sword Immortal.

Zhou Ping wielded the Sword Dao Law against Hu and Set, but his mortal body could not withstand its power, and Jialan was injured when she tried to protect him. He brought Lin Qiye and the others back to the shattered city, while Hu and Set considered waiting for the Law to destroy him.

• Hu and Set sensed the Power of Law in Zhou Ping’s sword and realized he had become a god who could slay gods.
• Zhou Ping emerged from the storm and clashed with Hu and Set, whose combined divine might could barely suppress his Sword Intent.
• Hu recognized that Zhou Ping’s mortal body was breaking down under the Sword Dao Law, and An Qingyu confirmed the danger.
• Lin Qiye asked Jialan to use Immortality on Zhou Ping, but she was injured when his Sword Dao Law overwhelmed her.
• Zhou Ping carried Lin Qiye and the others to the edge of the shattered city, where Jialan collapsed from exhaustion and soul damage.
• Hu and Set caught up with the group and considered keeping their distance until Zhou Ping’s own Law destroyed him.

Hugh and Amon arranged to pressure Zhou Ping by endangering Fengdu, while a Beast Tide forced Zhou Ping to choose between saving the city and pursuing the gods. As his body began to dissipate, Zhou Ping entrusted the city to Lin Qiye and went to fight the gods.

• Hugh decided to keep Fengdu under threat to occupy Zhou Ping, and Amon created a curse to attract beasts.
• Zhou Ping began to dissipate, and Lin Qiye searched for a way to save him, but Merlin said he knew of no solution.
• More than two hundred Mysteries charged out of the mist, forcing Zhou Ping to choose between defending Fengdu and attacking the gods.
• Zhou Ping asked Lin Qiye and his team to protect the city and finish the other half of his promise.
• Zhou Ping declared that he would be the first human to slay a god, then vanished as he charged toward the gods.

Zhou Ping confronted Shu and Set after they expected the Beast Tide to kill him, and he unleashed the Sword Law to slay Set with one strike. Set fell, while Shu remained beside him as Zhou Ping’s body continued to dissolve.

• Shu and Set watched the Beast Tide swarm toward the shattered city and expected it to kill Zhou Ping.
• Zhou Ping abandoned the city’s path and approached the gods, radiating killing intent that made Shu and Set fear him.
• Set challenged Zhou Ping’s ability to kill a god, and Zhou Ping raised his sword despite his body breaking apart under the Sword Law.
• Zhou Ping’s strike split Set’s defenses and shattered his Yellow Sand Law.
• Zhou Ping, the Great Xia Sword Immortal, killed Set with one sword.