Recaps

Su Mu became Xiao Yue’s master and guided her cultivation while helping her shop in Wutan City. After Xiao Yue bought a rusted Broken Sword and had the stall owner driven from the Market, he followed her into an alley, where Su Mu intervened and revealed himself.

• Su Mu bound himself to the Goddess Worship System, met Xiao Yue, and persuaded her to accept him as her master by explaining the cause of Xiao Yan’s lost Dou Qi.
• Su Mu gave Xiao Yue cultivation advice and Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid, while she gradually trusted his guidance and went shopping with him.
• Su Mu and Xiao Yue visited Wutan City’s Market, where she rejected Xiao Ning’s company and spent much of her savings shopping.
• Su Mu bought a One-Time Treasure Hunting Talisman and used it to identify a rusted Broken Sword as the most promising item at a stall.
• Xiao Yue bargained the stall owner down to ten gold coins for the Broken Sword, then ordered the Market guards to drive him out.
• The stall owner followed Xiao Yue into an alley and threatened her, demanding to know the Broken Sword’s secret.
• Su Mu’s grayish-white airflow restrained the stall owner, and Su Mu appeared beside him as the man begged for his life.

After the Broken Sword awakened Xiao Yue’s Sword Body, Su Mu trained her and helped her grow stronger. Xiao Yue mastered a sword skill and began learning Su Mu’s more advanced technique, while her progress drew attention from her family and clan members.

• Su Mu killed the stall owner at Xiao Yue’s request, then promised to teach her Martial Skills if she trained diligently.
• Xiao Yue’s blood awakened the Broken Sword, releasing sword qi that opened her meridians and awakened her Sword Body.
• Xiao Yue reached Qi Condensation Stage Nine, while Su Mu cultivated the Boundless Chaos Art and learned the limits of his puppet.
• Su Mu trained Xiao Yue with a heavy greatsword and medicinal soaks, helping her build strength and recover from the strain.
• Xiao Yue explained her sudden improvement to Xiao Yan while concealing some details, then completed eight days of training and gained control of her strength.
• At the Fighting Skill Hall, Xiao Yue rejected Xiao Ning’s help, then defeated Xiao Mei on the challenge platform after Xiao Mei insulted her family.
• Xiao Yue perfected the Seven Stars Consecutive Sword, destroying a large tree with its sword aura.
• Su Mu demonstrated the first three forms of One Sword Breaks Sun and Moon, and Xiao Yue eagerly agreed to learn it.

Su Mu trained Xiao Yue, helped her break through to Dou Zhe, and gave her the Green Lotus Sword Canon and a new sword. After Xiao Yue clashed with Galeo at the Market, Su Mu accompanied her to the Mittel Auction House, where Ya Fei took an interest in him.

• Su Mu taught Xiao Yue his sword technique, and she mastered it through diligent practice before breaking through to Dou Zhe with his Qi Gathering Powder.
• Su Mu claimed Xiao Yue’s Goddess Gift Pack, upgraded his puppet, and tested Xiao Yue’s sword skills in a spar.
• Xiao Yue demonstrated One Sword Breaks Sun and Moon to Xiao Zhan, then asked Su Mu to accompany her to the Market.
• Xiao Yue refused Galeo’s offer of a necklace and rejected his marriage proposal, while Galeo threatened the Xiao Family.
• Su Mu refused Xiao Yue’s request to kill Galeo, gave her a necklace, and taught her the Green Lotus Sword Canon.
• Su Mu and Xiao Yue went to the Mittel Auction House, where Guni sent Ya Fei to receive the powerful visitor she sensed.
• Ya Fei and Xiao Yue argued over Su Mu’s attention before Ya Fei led them to a private auction room and left to host the auction.

Su Mu accompanied Xiao Yue through the auction and the Xiao Family’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony, where Xiao Yan regained his standing and Xiao Yue revealed her overwhelming strength. The arc ended with Xiao Yue and Xiao Xun'er clashing in a fierce duel whose outcome remained unclear.

• Xiao Yue recognized the Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid at the auction, and Su Mu explained that Xiao Yan’s master had supplied it before Xiao Zhan bought it for forty thousand.
• Xiao Zhan met Su Mu through Xiao Yue, and Su Mu reassured him that Xiao Yan would solve his own problem and surprise him at the Coming-of-Age Ceremony.
• The Xiao Family elders pressed Xiao Zhan to consider marriage alliances for Xiao Yue, but he refused to let them dictate her future.
• Xiao Xun'er tested as a One-Star Fighter, and Xiao Yan astonished the clan by reaching Qi Cultivation Stage Seven after his long decline.
• Xiao Yue tested as a Three-star Dou Zhe, surpassing Xiao Xun'er and silencing the elders’ doubts about her strength.
• Xiao Yan defeated three challengers, while Xiao Yue challenged the crowd and defeated Xiao Mei with a single sword movement.
• Xiao Xun'er faced Xiao Yue, and the two exchanged increasingly powerful attacks as Xiao Yue launched One Sword Breaks Sun and Moon against Xiao Xun'er's golden defense.