Recaps

Xie Yuan pursued rare medicines, faced enemies across the Western Regions, and grew stronger while the Xie clan weathered political pressure. After his charges were cleared, he traveled to the capital with Xie Yi and Xie Lingyun for the Hidden Dragon Banquet.

• Xie Yuan escaped the Torchbearer Envoy and joined the struggle around the heavenly ladder at Ten Thousand Demons Mountain, where he planned a breakthrough to the Third Transformation Realm.
• Xie Yuan joined the Soaring Dragon Escort Agency, trained under Shen Longteng, and later returned to Yunshan Sword Sect before meeting Situ Qin and continuing his search for the Golden Mandala.
• Xie Yuan fought Ji Xuan and the Eight Mystic Maidens, while Mu Chaoyun helped restore his mystic weapon and strengthen the Xie clan as its enemies renewed pressure.
• Xie Yuan, Mu Chaoyun, Situ Qin, and Xie Lingyun reached Heaven Pillar Peak, where he began reciting the Demon-Sealing Sacrificial Text beside the Demon Suppression Cauldron and disappeared.
• Xie Yuan investigated the missing Newborn Manjusaka, defeated Ji Xuan’s interception, and traveled west, where he searched for Situ Qin and uncovered a lead to Immortal Abyss.
• Xie Yuan confronted Situ Wan, learned that the Mu Family’s destruction was not the Stove Sect’s doing, and joined the two Black Heaven Book treasures to improve his spiritual techniques before an unknown voice stopped his attack on Wu Daoji.
• Xie Yuan received word that his charges had been cleared and that he was invited to the Hidden Dragon Banquet, then traveled to the capital with Xie Yi and Xie Lingyun.

Xie Yuan crossed paths with old allies and powerful enemies while investigating the great families and pursuing greater cultivation. The arc left him studying the surviving pages of the Pre-Qin Alchemist's Notes alongside Wang Qishi.

• Xie Yuan returned after five years, reunited with his friends, learned Yu Ping had died saving Yun Province Prefecture, and drove the Western Barbarian Allied Army beyond Wild Goose Gate Pass.
• Xie Yuan and his allies fought the Joyous Union Elder and other Grandmasters, while Xie Yuan investigated Mister Qian and clashed with Yao Yilong.
• Xie Yuan entered Wu Daoji’s cave study, but Lu Xuefeng attacked, and Wu Daoji extinguished his True Spirit rather than submit to him.
• Xie Yuan and his companions infiltrated the Yao Family residence, pursued Mister Qian, and later Xie Yuan and Situ Qin killed an Autumn Wind Pavilion assassin.
• Xie Yuan joined Huang Zifeng and the Lin Family Siblings for a Western Desert trial, fought horse bandits, and was surrounded after falling into the sand.
• Xie Yuan and Zhang Junyi defeated Qian Yangsheng beneath a lake, where Xie Yuan saw a strange vision and awoke in a hospital in another life.
• Xie Yuan defeated Xie Dun and joined a family dinner, then helped kill the Flame Igniter Envoy and stayed to study the surviving Pre-Qin Alchemist's Notes with Wang Qishi.

Xie Yuan moved between the martial world and the Yunshan Sword Sect, confronting powerful enemies while his ties to Mu Chaoyun and the Xie family changed. After waking in a hospital with his cultivation gone, he returned to Chen County and faced a mysterious girl who tested him before disappearing.

• Xie Yuan refined the Mountains and Rivers Cauldron, comprehended Splitting Mount Hua, and used the technique to drive off the Autumn Wind Pavilion Master.
• Xie Yuan killed a tiger to save Zhou Feng and the hunters, then received a great axe and Axe Technique from Situ Qin after helping defend her carriage.
• Xie Yuan killed Ji Hong with help from the Right Dharma King and Martial Transmission Elder, but the Right Dharma King then turned against Xie Yuan, Situ Qin, and Yun Xing.
• Xie Yuan joined the Yunshan Sword Sect, climbed Sword Peak, and later stayed in its outer sect while Mu Chaoyun taught him martial knowledge as she recovered.
• Xie Yi revealed that Xie Yuan belonged to the Chen Commandery Xie clan, but the Blood Drop ceremony failed to unite their blood, and Xie Lingyun learned that Xie Yuan was her cousin.
• Xie Yuan confronted the Demon Dragon and a gathering of old powers, splitting the Demon Dragon with the Black Heaven Divine Sword and challenging the rest to attack.
• Xie Yuan woke after three years in a hospital with his cultivation gone, discovered his family’s debts, and decided to visit Heaven’s Gate Mountain.
• A mysterious girl raised a Great Jade Buddha and captured Xie Lingyun, but Xie Yuan fought her evenly until she ended the fight and vanished as a figure from the Xie Family approached.

Xie Yuan pursued cultivation and confronted powerful enemies while uncovering threats tied to the Black Heaven Book and the Source of Dao. After returning to a world engulfed in war, he defeated the Western Barbarian Allied Army and set out for Chen Commandery to study its martial arts repository.

• Xie Yuan killed the assassin attacking Xie Lingyun’s group, then defeated bandit leaders and challenged the BeiTang brothers and Lei Xianlun.
• Xie Yuan learned Mu Chaoyun’s history, killed Chen Su, and studied the Heaven Burning World Destroying Spear while Xie Lingyun stayed by his side.
• Xie Yuan took part in the Little Hidden Dragon Meet, fought Yao Yilong, and joined Situ Qin at Immortal Abyss, where an enchanting woman appeared before him.
• Xie Yuan fought Wu Daoji and the assembled peak Grandmasters, while the Old Taoist Priest later revealed that Xie Yuan carried the true Source of Dao and must stop Wu Wudi.
• Jade Serenity defeated Xie Yuan and took the Black Heaven Book, while six months later Mu Chaoyun vowed to bring him back.
• Xie Yuan broke through in cultivation, reunited with Situ Qin and Mu Chaoyun, and weighed the Wang Family’s marriage proposal against its rivalry with the Cui Family.
• Xie Yuan returned to North Capital Mountain, saved Yun Zhao City, learned that war had spread and Yu Ping had died, then destroyed the Western Barbarian Allied Army’s main camp.
• Xie Yuan decided to seek the martial arts repository in Chen Commandery and study its books to strengthen his cultivation.