Recaps

Li Zhixian mastered the Azure Sky Sword Song’s fourth form in Thunder Gorge, then returned to Heaven Dou City as the Spirit Master Competition began. After taking command of the Imperial Dou Team and clashing with Tang San, he faced Tang Hao, with Dugu Bo and Yu Yuanzhen arriving to support him.

• Li Zhixian endured the Azure Sky and Violet Fiend Thunder in Thunder Gorge, where a sprout from the Thunder Marsh Grass Seed bloomed into Nirvana Thunder Lotuses and helped him comprehend the sword form Thunder Ash Birth.
• Li Zhixian completed his lightning body tempering, named his physique the Three Phases Spirit Vein Body, declined Yu Tianxin’s request to become his disciple, and left the Blue Lightning Family.
• Li Zhixian returned to Heaven Dou City, reunited with Xue Qinghe, and welcomed visiting academy teams, including Feng Buyu’s Wind Sword Sect, Blazing Fire Academy, and Godwind Academy.
• Li Zhixian met Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong at Jinxi Bridge, where Ning Rongrong recognized him as Banished Immortal Brother.
• After Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation injured the Imperial Dou Team in the Star Dou Forest, Li Zhixian accepted the team’s battle flag and became its captain for the competition.
• Shrek Team defeated Imperial Dou Team Two in the opening match, and Li Zhixian countered Tang San’s Purple Demon Eye with Qi swords, leaving Tang San in pain and prompting a confrontation at the arena.
• Tang Hao confronted Li Zhixian over the Strength Clan and Tang San, and Dugu Bo and Yu Yuanzhen appeared beside Li Zhixian.

Li Zhixian traveled to Spirit City, survived an ambush, and led the Imperial Dou Team through the tournament while settling scores with Shrek. After gaining a powerful soul ring, he defeated Dai Mubai and Tang San in the individual matches and was named champion, while Bibi Dong prepared to target him in the Team Battle.

• Li Zhixian rejected Ning Rongrong’s apology, then defeated Dai Mubai at Shanxiang Restaurant after Dai threatened Zhu Zhuqing, provoking a wider clash between their allies.
• Xue Qinghe led the Heaven Dou delegation toward Spirit City, where Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo ambushed them for Li Zhixian before two black-robed experts drove the attackers away.
• Li Zhixian led the Imperial Dou Team to defeat Spirit Hall Second Team with one sword, then helped his team reach the tournament’s top three.
• Li Zhixian traveled with Qian Renxue to the Star Dou Great Forest, where he killed and absorbed a nearly twenty-thousand-year Calamity Lotus, reaching Soul Power level forty-three.
• Li Zhixian arrived at the finals arena and defeated Dai Mubai, then caught Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer, severed his Eight Spider Lances, and forced Shrek to forfeit the individual match.
• Hu Liena forfeited Spirit Hall’s individual battle and planned for the Golden Generation to target Li Zhixian in the Team Battle, while Bibi Dong named him champion and resolved to kill him.

Li Zhixian defeated Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation, then fought Bibi Dong when she accused him of killing her deacons and tried to seize him. After sacrificing himself to defeat her and being revived by Zhu Zhuqing’s Lovesick Heartbreak Red, he set out to find ingredients to save her, while Qian Renxue began her Angel trials and he traveled north under a new identity.

• Li Zhixian defeated Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation in the tournament final, won the championship, and refused Bibi Dong’s offer to become an elder.
• Bibi Dong accused Li Zhixian of killing seventeen Spirit Hall deacons, but Qian Renxue and several allies protected him as Spirit Hall attacked.
• Li Zhixian revealed his Wine Spirit Martial Soul and fought alongside his allies, but Bibi Dong used her second Martial Soul and struck him down.
• Li Zhixian used Fate Tribulation Rebirth to pierce Bibi Dong’s heart, then collapsed as Spirit Hall searched for him and his friends found him near death.
• Zhu Zhuqing gave Li Zhixian the Lovesick Heartbreak Red to revive him, and he discovered a recipe that required Deity's Heart Blood, Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow, and Yellow Springs Dew to restore her.
• Li Zhixian left Zhu Zhuqing with Xiao Wu at Lake of Life and set out to find the ingredients, while Qian Renxue kissed him and returned to Spirit Hall.
• Li Zhixian survived an attempt on his life at a tavern, developed Death Sword Intent, and traveled north to join the Snow Bear Mercenary Group as Li Ji.
• Li Ji recruited Oscar into his team, while Qian Renxue struggled through her Angel trials and resolved to pass the first one and help Li Zhixian.

Li Zhixian helped hatch the Extreme North’s auspicious beast, then traveled to the City of Slaughter to refine his sword and seek Yellow Springs Dew. There he reunited with Qian Renxue and staged a false feud to lure thousands of killers into a trap.

• Li Zhixian escaped the avalanche and joined the mercenaries searching for the Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow, but the Titan Snow Demon King seized the treasure and carried him into the Extreme North’s hidden palace.
• The Snow Empress asked Li Zhixian to hatch the Old Ya Zi’s egg, and he successfully freed the newborn Ya Zi before gaining its spirit ring, spirit bone, and a token for safe passage through the Extreme North.
• Li Zhixian returned to find Red Widow attacking the survivors, killed her, and then left the northern region after bidding farewell to Shui Bing'er, Oscar, Snow Bear, and the others.
• In Dusk Town, Li Zhixian heard a storyteller recount his deeds, while Ning Rongrong, Hu Liena, and Tang San each pursued their own paths toward greater strength and the City of Slaughter.
• Li Zhixian entered the City of Slaughter, killed his way through the tavern and arena, and became known as Blood Slaughter Sword as he sought Yellow Springs Dew and honed his swordsmanship.
• Qian Renxue found Li Zhixian in the City of Slaughter, and after reuniting, they secretly agreed to stage a dangerous feud that would draw the city’s killers toward him.
• Li Zhixian and Qian Renxue spread a rumor that he had stolen the Worship Hall’s supreme treasure, drawing thousands of greedy killers to the arena and then leading them into a dead-end valley.
• Li Zhixian appeared above the trapped crowd on transparent swords and welcomed them into the urn.