Recaps

Fang Chen fought Zhang Tielin, enduring repeated attacks as the Floating Immortal Sword healed his wounds. After Zhang Tielin took more pills and unleashed a barrage of Sword Qi, Fang Chen used the Flowing Cloud Sword Technique to pierce his head, leaving Zhang Tielin dead.

• Zhang Tielin used pill-enhanced Sword Qi to repeatedly wound Fang Chen, but the Floating Immortal Sword healed him and his aura continued to rise.
• Fang Chen let Zhang Tielin's sword pierce his shoulder, then severed Zhang Tielin's right arm with the Floating Immortal Sword.
• Zhang Tielin tried to take more medicine, but Fang Chen attacked and forced him to roll away before he swallowed the pills.
• Zhang Tielin consumed the pills, reached the Eighth Layer of Qi Refining, and fired a red Sword Ray that blasted three bloody holes in Fang Chen.
• Zhang Tielin unleashed Meteor Shower, but Fang Chen deflected the Sword Qi and pierced Zhang Tielin between the brows with Flowing Cloud Cuts Water, Tears Leave No Trace.

After killing Zhang Tielin, Fang Chen used the Floating Immortal Sword to grow stronger as he traveled deeper along the Trial Path. At dusk, he entered a Valley that first appeared full of treasures, then transformed into a barren place strewn with Skeletons.

• The Floating Immortal Sword healed Fang Chen and replenished his Spiritual Power after he killed Zhang Tielin.
• Fang Chen searched Zhang Tielin's belongings, left the Spirit Treasures that spilled from his exploding dantian, and departed before anyone could investigate.
• Fang Chen chopped Black Scale Red Leaf Pines along the Trial Path, absorbing Spiritual Power until he reached the peak of the Fourth Layer of Qi Refining.
• As darkness approached, Fang Chen found a Valley that seemed full of Spirit Rabbits, Spirit Deer, and Spirit Ginseng.
• When Fang Chen entered the Valley, the flowers and animals vanished, leaving barren terrain and Skeletons.

Fang Chen entered Glazed City to escape a storm, but the city's red rain poisoned him and he collapsed. He awoke in a firelit room, where a beautiful woman who appeared to have rescued him entered.

• Fang Chen recognized the valley as a likely illusion and found Glazed City beyond it, where he discovered old bones and a breach in the city gates.
• Fang Chen entered the city as night and a storm approached, then found the road and gate had vanished behind him.
• Fang Chen breathed the poisonous red mist, failed to draw Spiritual Power or cure himself with Detoxification Pills, and collapsed after coughing blood.
• A woman carrying an oil-paper umbrella approached Fang Chen as he lost consciousness.
• Fang Chen awoke in a stone room beside a brazier and realized someone had saved him.
• The woman entered carrying firewood, and Fang Chen was captivated by her beauty.

Ye Qingci nursed Fang Chen back to consciousness after saving him from poison, then cooked him mushroom soup that left him poisoned again. As Fang Chen recognized the danger, Ye Qingci offered him a powerful Detoxification Pill.

• Fang Chen woke in Ye Qingci’s care and learned that she had saved him.
• Ye Qingci helped Fang Chen drink water and made mushroom soup while he recovered his strength.
• Fang Chen summoned the Floating Immortal Sword to confirm it was still with him.
• Fang Chen ate the mushroom soup and felt warmth spread through his body, then became flushed and feverish.
• Fang Chen realized the mushrooms had poisoned him, and Ye Qingci offered him her father’s Detoxification Pill.

Fang Chen tried to neutralize the poison in his body after Ye Qingci’s Fifth Grade Detoxification Pill made his symptoms worse. By striking a Stone Lion with his Floating Immortal Sword, he purged the poison and broke through, but when Ye Qingci finally noticed him again, Fang Chen saw something in her eyes that made him recoil.

• Ye Qingci gave Fang Chen a Fifth Grade Detoxification Pill, but taking it worsened the scorching symptoms in his body.
• Ye Qingci spilled out her Storage Bag and searched through her pills while Fang Chen decided to purge the poison himself.
• Fang Chen struck a Stone Lion with his Floating Immortal Sword, gradually neutralizing the poison and increasing his True Qi.
• Fang Chen broke through as Golden Flames spread through his body and burned away the poison; he thanked Ye Qingci, who gave him clothes and directed him to a pool.
• Fang Chen bathed, returned to the house, and called to Ye Qingci, then sprang back when he saw her eyes.

Fang Chen watched Ye Qingci recover after her brother arrived and learned that the young man had been searching the Hall of the Undead for a Nether Flower. After Ye Qingci’s brother took her away, Fang Chen discovered that he could not fly out of the Glazed Ancient City and set off on foot.

• Ye Qingci’s brother arrived and used a golden power to restore her hollow, black eyes.
• Ye Qingci reunited with her brother and told him that Fang Chen was a Glazed Sword Sect disciple whom she had rescued and given clothes.
• Ye Qingci’s brother distrusted Fang Chen, took his sister away, and left Fang Chen alone in the street.
• Fang Chen tried to fly out of the city on his Black Iron Sword, but its Aerial Formation Pattern would not lift him.
• Fang Chen found that the pressure grew stronger at higher elevations, then headed down the street with his Floating Immortal Sword.

Ye Kong brought Ye Qingci to a stone house in Glazed City and reflected on how he had sacrificed his cultivation to enter the Trial Path and seek a Nether Flower to cure her illness. When Ye Qingci begged to accompany him rather than wait alone, he agreed, and they left together.

• Ye Kong used beans to summon Puppet People, had them clean and furnish the stone house, then settled Ye Qingci there while he recovered.
• Ye Kong recalled that his family had rejected him and Ye Qingci, whose unexplained illness had worsened since their mother died.
• Ye Kong had severed his cultivation and paid the Glazed Sword Sect for seven days in the Trial Path, hoping to find a Nether Flower that could cure Ye Qingci.
• Ye Qingci woke as Ye Kong was preparing to leave and asked to go with him, saying she would rather face danger beside him than stay alone.
• Ye Kong agreed, and Ye Qingci left the house with him.

Ye Qingci waited outside the Glazed Hall while Ye Kong searched inside for medicine to cure her illness, and she reunited with Fang Chen. When a crash and Ye Kong’s scream came from within, Fang Chen entered the dangerous hall to find him.

• Ye Kong left Ye Qingci at the Glazed Hall entrance and went inside to search for the Nether Flower.
• Fang Chen found Ye Qingci after wandering through Glazed City for three hours, and she told him about her illness and her family.
• Fang Chen admitted he was hungry, while Ye Qingci explained that she could only take specially made pills.
• Ye Qingci heard Ye Kong scream inside the hall and begged Fang Chen not to enter.
• Fang Chen ignored Ye Qingci’s warning and stepped into the Glazed Hall to look for Ye Kong.

Fang Chen endured the Glazed Hall’s crushing pressure and repeatedly struck its Barrier until he broke through with Sword Intent. Inside, he found Ye Kong fighting zombies for the Nether Flower, but after a zombie struck Fang Chen, Ye Kong recognized him.

• Fang Chen struck the Barrier with the Floating Immortal Sword and absorbed red Spiritual Power that tempered his body.
• Fang Chen kept attacking the Barrier, improved his Flowing Cloud Sword Technique, and broke through with an invisible Sword Intent.
• Fang Chen entered the space and saw Ye Kong fighting zombies that climbed from a black pool beneath the Nether Flower.
• A zombie attacked Fang Chen, but the Floating Immortal Sword poured Spiritual Power into him after he was struck.
• Ye Kong saw Fang Chen and asked, "You?"

Fang Chen and Ye Kong fought through the Nether Flower’s guardians as its strange pulses weakened them. Ye Kong unleashed Xuanhuang Transformation and destroyed the flower’s leaves, but was gravely wounded, while a cluster of blue flowers fell before Fang Chen.

• The Nether Flower’s pulses caused Fang Chen and Ye Kong intense pain, and zombies overwhelmed Ye Kong until he shouted, “Xuan—huang—Transformation!”
• Ye Kong transformed, shattered the zombies, and cut the Sacrificial Altar, which began to heal itself.
• Red skeletons emerged from the black pool, and Ye Kong destroyed them with his golden spear before attacking the Nether Flower.
• The Nether Flower repelled Ye Kong’s first strike, but he used Golden Dragon Emerges from the Sea to pierce and shatter its leaves.
• The Nether Flower’s fragments riddled Ye Kong with wounds, its pressure returned, and a cluster of blue flowers fell in front of Fang Chen.

Fang Chen carried the injured Ye Kong out of the Glazed Hall with the Nether Flower as black water flooded the chamber. Outside, Ye Kong treated his backlash from using Xuanhuang Transformation, while Fang Chen took a Second-Rank Great Return Pill and used the Floating Immortal Sword to help refine its medicinal power.

• Fang Chen picked up the Nether Flower, carried Ye Kong across the Glazed Hall despite the crushing pressure, and escaped just before its doors closed.
• Ye Qingci rushed to Fang Chen and Ye Kong, and Ye Kong realized Fang Chen had saved his life.
• Ye Kong coughed up blood from the backlash of Xuanhuang Transformation and asked Ye Qingci for a Seventh-Rank Great Return Pill.
• Ye Kong warned that Fang Chen could not withstand a Seventh-Rank pill, so Ye Qingci gave Fang Chen a Second-Rank Great Return Pill instead.
• Fang Chen struck a crystal pillar with the Floating Immortal Sword to draw out Spiritual Power and refine the pill's strong medicinal power.

Ye Qingci swallowed the Nether Flower, which triggered a strange transformation and forced Ye Kong to use a talisman to escape Glazed City with her. Fang Chen followed them through the Seven-Colored beam, landed alone in a pine forest, and entered Enlightenment after drawing Ice Origin from the Floating Immortal Sword.

• Ye Qingci's tears caused the Nether Flower to glow and release a blue aura that lifted everything nearby, including Ye Kong and Fang Chen.
• As the Nether Flower began dissolving, Ye Kong urged Ye Qingci to eat it, and she swallowed it before the blue ripples faded.
• Ye Qingci began trembling with cold as frost formed on her face, so Ye Kong used a talisman to summon a Seven-Colored beam and carried her into it.
• Fang Chen rushed into the beam before it closed and was transported through the vortex into a pine forest, where Ye Kong and Ye Qingci were nowhere to be found.
• Fang Chen struck a pine tree with the Floating Immortal Sword, absorbed Ice Origin, and entered Enlightenment, seeing Seven-Colored rosy glow in a nearby hollow.

Fang Chen found and retrieved an enormous golden Glazed Mushroom, then learned that the trial was ending and rode his Glazed Paper Crane out. Outside the Trial Path, the contestants’ mushrooms were collected and weighed as the lake began to freeze.

• Fang Chen absorbed the medicinal power of Ye Qingci’s Second-Rank Great Return Pill and broke through to the Sixth Layer of Qi Refining.
• Fang Chen uncovered a giant golden Glazed Mushroom and used the Floating Immortal Sword to dig it from the hard earth.
• The Glazed Paper Crane swallowed the mushroom, then relayed the Yellow Springs Peak Master’s announcement that the trial would close in half an hour.
• Fang Chen rode the struggling Glazed Paper Crane toward the outskirts of the Trial Path as the Glazed Bell restored Heavenly Lake’s water level.
• The Merit Hall disciples weighed and scored the contestants’ Glazed Mushrooms, while the lake shore began to freeze.

Fang Chen broke through the Ice Seal after the Trial Competition had been declared over, and the Yellow Springs Peak Master ordered guards to rescue him. Fang Chen then revealed that his Glazed Mushrooms were still inside his Paper Crane and asked an Elder to count them.

• Li Yanshan and Elder Yun waited for Fang Chen as the lake froze over, while Elder Yun finished the trial with one thousand points.
• The Yellow Springs Peak Master announced Su He in first place, Wang Zheng in second, and Xiao Bo in third, then prepared to end the competition.
• The Ice Origin cracked, and Fang Chen punched through it but became stuck halfway out of the lake.
• The Yellow Springs Peak Master sent two guards to free Fang Chen, who reunited with Li Yanshan and Elder Yun at Yellow Sand Wharf.
• Fang Chen showed the Yellow Springs Peak Master his dripping Paper Crane and asked an Elder to count the Glazed Mushrooms inside.

Fang Chen's Paper Crane coughed up a Top Grade Glazed Mushroom and then a gigantic eight-colored mushroom that the Yellow Springs Peak Master identified as the legendary Glazed Mushroom Emperor. The discovery left the Yellow Springs Peak Master ecstatic, as the rare treasure could help Glazed Sword Sect elders survive nirvana.

• The Yellow Springs Peak Master restored Fang Chen's exhausted Paper Crane with True Essence, and it began coughing.
• The Paper Crane retched up a Top Grade Glazed Mushroom, prompting disciples to mock Fang Chen and accuse him of mistreating it.
• Fang Chen protested that the disciples had misunderstood, but their gossip continued as the Paper Crane retched again.
• The Paper Crane spat out an enormous eight-colored mushroom, stunning the disciples and the Yellow Springs Peak Master.
• The Yellow Springs Peak Master identified it as the Glazed Mushroom Emperor and explained that it could be refined into pills to improve cultivators' chances of surviving nirvana.

Fang Chen won the Trial Competition after finding the priceless Glazed Mushroom Emperor, earning a place in the inner sect. As he returned to Azure Cloud Peak, the crowd questioned how someone said to have no Spiritual Root could become an Inner Disciple, and he spotted Wu Qingfeng.

• The Yellow Springs Peak Master declared Fang Chen the winner after judging the Glazed Mushroom Emperor priceless and listed his points as incalculable.
• The Yellow Springs Peak Master also kept Xiao Bo eligible for the inner sect despite his fourth-place finish, then ended the competition.
• Fang Chen thanked Li Yanshan and Elder Yun, and they agreed to celebrate his victory with dinner.
• Fang Chen and the others flew back toward Azure Cloud Peak, while Zhang Xu worried about Zhang Tielin’s disappearance and Fang Chen’s new status.
• At the crowded New Floating Market, people argued over Fang Chen’s lack of a Spiritual Root and his promotion, and Fang Chen spotted Wu Qingfeng.

Fang Chen invited Wu Qingfeng to dinner, learned he was being bullied at White Snake Mountain, and helped him join Elder Yun at Dog Head Ridge. After remembering his parents, Fang Chen left with an Inner Disciple to begin his life in the inner sect.

• Fang Chen congratulated Wu Qingfeng on breaking through to the Qi Refining Realm and introduced him to Elder Yun and Li Yanshan.
• Fang Chen invited Wu Qingfeng to dine with them at the Heavenly Fragrance Pavilion, where Wu Qingfeng described the bullying he had suffered at White Snake Mountain.
• Fang Chen asked Elder Yun to take Wu Qingfeng to Dog Head Ridge, and Wu Qingfeng accepted the offer.
• Fang Chen carried the drunken Wu Qingfeng back to Dog Head Ridge, then sat outside and remembered his deceased parents.
• An Inner Disciple arrived the next morning, and Fang Chen said goodbye to Elder Yun, Li Yanshan, and Wu Qingfeng before leaving for the inner sect.

After placing first in the Trial Competition, Fang Chen underwent testing in the inner sect's Qi Sensing Pavilion and discovered that his cultivation had reached the Sixth Layer of Qi Refining despite having no Spiritual Root. Lu Yu, stunned by his rapid progress, contacted her master, who agreed to come investigate.

• Nie Chuan escorted Fang Chen to the inner sect's Qi Sensing Pavilion and introduced Lu Yu, who would conduct his test.
• Lu Yu checked Fang Chen's Identity Token and was surprised to find that he had no Spiritual Root.
• Fang Chen channeled True Qi into the Crystal Compass, which showed cultivation at the Sixth Layer of Qi Refining.
• Lu Yu questioned Fang Chen about his rapid progress, but he did not explain how he had advanced.
• After Fang Chen left, Lu Yu contacted her master and asked him to inspect the strange result, and he agreed to come.

True Person Ku Rong brought Fang Chen to Azure Cloud Peak’s Peak Master, Azure Cloud Daoist, after learning about Fang Chen’s unusual battle Enlightenment. After examining Fang Chen and questioning him, Azure Cloud Daoist ordered Ku Rong to take him to Heavenly Wolf Valley.

• The Yellow-Robed Woman introduced Fang Chen to her master, True Person Ku Rong, who asked how Fang Chen had reached the Sixth Layer of Qi Refining without a Spiritual Root.
• Fang Chen explained that he repeatedly experienced Enlightenment in battle and could absorb nearby Spiritual Qi while in that state.
• True Person Ku Rong took Fang Chen to Azure Cloud Hall to meet Azure Cloud Daoist, the Peak Master of Azure Cloud Peak.
• Azure Cloud Daoist examined Fang Chen’s palm and confirmed that he had no Spiritual Root, while Fang Chen worried the inspection might reveal the Floating Immortal Sword hidden in his hand.
• Azure Cloud Daoist asked Fang Chen about his battle Enlightenment, then told True Person Ku Rong to take him to Heavenly Wolf Valley.

Fang Chen fought the Green-eyed Wolves in Heavenly Wolf Valley under the Azure Cloud Daoist’s watch and entered a state of Enlightenment. After killing hundreds of wolves, he broke through to the Seventh Layer of Qi Refining, sending the survivors fleeing.

• True Person Ku Rong brought Fang Chen to Heavenly Wolf Valley, where the Azure Cloud Daoist ordered him to fight Green-eyed Wolves and seek Enlightenment.
• Fang Chen battled a pack of thirty-five wolves with the Black Iron Sword and sensed Spiritual Power flowing from the Floating Immortal Sword in his right palm.
• Fang Chen entered a state of Enlightenment, his perception sharpened, and he swiftly killed the wolves while absorbing Spiritual Qi.
• Hundreds more Green-eyed Wolves emerged, and Fang Chen charged into them, cutting them down as his aura steadily rose.
• Golden Flame ignited in Fang Chen’s dantian, and he broke through to the Seventh Layer of Qi Refining, frightening the remaining wolves into fleeing.

Fang Chen broke through to the seventh level of Qi Refining during battle, leading Azure Cloud Daoist to suspect he possessed the legendary Battle Saint Body. Azure Cloud Daoist summoned all seven Peak Masters to tell them about Fang Chen, leaving them shocked by the claim.

• Fang Chen completed his breakthrough, and Azure Cloud Daoist examined his sword before concluding that Fang Chen might have the Battle Saint Body.
• Azure Cloud Daoist worried that the Glazed Sword Sect might not be able to keep Fang Chen if stronger powers tried to recruit him.
• Azure Cloud Daoist summoned the other six Peak Masters to Heavenly Wolf Valley.
• The Yellow Springs Peak Master recognized Fang Chen as the Trial Competition winner who had found the Glazed Mushroom Emperor.
• Azure Cloud Daoist told the Peak Masters that Fang Chen might possess the Battle Saint Body, and they reacted with shock.

The Glazed Sword Sect’s peak masters investigated Fang Chen and confirmed that he had no Spiritual Root, yet his rapid cultivation and battle talent made them suspect he possessed the Battle Saint Body. Concerned he might leave the sect after receiving their support, they decided to have Dao Master Honghe examine him with the Glazed Mirror.

• The Azure Cloud Daoist told the peak masters that Fang Chen had performed extraordinarily in Heavenly Wolf Valley and had no Spiritual Root.
• The peak masters examined Fang Chen and confirmed he lacked a Spiritual Root despite advancing from the First Layer of Qi Refining to the seventh in less than ten days.
• The peak masters discussed whether to invest heavily in Fang Chen, worrying that he might leave the Glazed Sword Sect and abandon it.
• The Crimson Rainbow Daoist proposed asking Dao Master Honghe to examine Fang Chen with the Glazed Mirror, and the other peak masters agreed.
• The Azure Cloud Daoist ordered True Person Ku Rong to keep the matter secret, then took Fang Chen toward Dao Master Honghe’s place of seclusion.

Azure Cloud Daoist and the Seven Peak Masters brought Fang Chen to Dao Master Honghe to test whether he had the Battle Saint Body. The Glazed Mirror revealed a flawed Life Wheel that left Fang Chen at most three years to live, so they decided to take him to Qin Shang in hopes of finding a cure.

• Azure Cloud Daoist explained Fang Chen’s suspected Battle Saint Body to Dao Master Honghe and asked him to examine Fang Chen with the Glazed Mirror.
• Dao Master Honghe used the Glazed Mirror to reveal a gap in Fang Chen’s Life Wheel and declared that Fang Chen had no Spiritual Root and would die within three years if he stopped cultivating, sooner if he continued.
• Azure Cloud Daoist and the other Peak Masters abandoned their hopes of claiming Fang Chen as a disciple and discussed what to do with him.
• Azure Cloud Daoist proposed taking Fang Chen to their eldest martial uncle, Qin Shang, whose medical skills might help him.
• Azure Cloud Daoist carried Fang Chen toward Glazed Peak.

Fang Chen woke in Glazed Peak and learned from Peak Master Zhang Daoling, also called True Person Liuli, that his incomplete Life Wheel left him only three years to live. True Person Liuli said Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment or the legendary Elixir of Immortality might save him, and Fang Chen asked what he should do.

• Fang Chen woke in a room, confirmed the Floating Immortal Sword was still with him, and found an old man forging a sword nearby.
• The old man introduced himself as Zhang Daoling, Peak Master of Glazed Peak, and told Fang Chen that Azure Cloud Peak had sent him there because he was believed to have little time left.
• Zhang Daoling gave Fang Chen a book about the Life Wheel and explained that Fang Chen’s was incomplete, leaving him at most three years to live.
• Zhang Daoling named Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment and the Elixir of Immortality as possible ways to repair Fang Chen’s Life Wheel.
• Fang Chen asked Zhang Daoling what he should do.

True Person Liuli offered Fang Chen a chance to become his disciple despite the danger that cultivation would shorten his remaining life. He set three trials for Fang Chen and sent him away as a Glazed Peak Inner Disciple, leaving his acceptance dependent on completing them.

• True Person Liuli explained that Fang Chen could either stop cultivating and live out his remaining years or cultivate under him at the risk of dying sooner.
• Fang Chen chose to pursue cultivation, but True Person Liuli stopped him from kneeling and said he must first meet several conditions.
• True Person Liuli required Fang Chen to cultivate the first level of Glazed Golden Body within one month, consume one hundred Blood Lotus Seeds within two months, and reach the third level of Mad Demon Cave within three months, in that order.
• True Person Liuli gave Fang Chen the Glazed Sword Sect's Inner Disciple guidelines and warned him not to trespass in forbidden grounds.
• True Person Liuli made Fang Chen an Inner Disciple of Glazed Peak but refused to protect him until he completed the conditions and became his disciple.
• Fang Chen thanked True Person Liuli, bowed, and left to find a place to build a home at the foot of the mountain.