Recaps

Ning Qi supported Li Xiangrou’s return to Yue Country and bid on treasures to help her grow stronger. After gifting her a Thousand-year Immortal Grass, he won Heavenly Silkworm Armor at auction and gave it to her.

• Li Xiangrou told Ning Qi that she had fled Yue Country’s throne, that her gravely ill father wanted her to return, and that her sister Li Fengrou was stopping her.
• Ning Qi agreed to help Li Xiangrou return and said he would judge her by what she chose to do as ruler.
• Ning Qi bid twenty million Top-grade Spirit Stones for a Thousand-year Immortal Grass and gave it to Li Xiangrou, promising to help her refine it.
• Ning Qi outbid another bidder with an offer of forty million Top-grade Spirit Stones for Heavenly Silkworm Armor.
• Ning Qi handed the armor to Li Xiangrou, who said she trusted him when he declined to explain his background.

Ning Qi gave Li Xiangrou precious armor and won an immortal sword at auction, intending to give it to Xu Qingqiu's master. After Qianqian and Xu Feng secretly followed him back to his inn, they prepared to find out which room he was staying in.

• Ning Qi gave Li Xiangrou the precious armor he had bought for her.
• Ning Qi outbid Qianqian for an immortal sword once used by a Golden Immortal, and the auction house verified that he had enough Spirit Marrow to pay.
• After losing the sword, Qianqian and Xu Feng fed an attendant a Heart-Devouring Gu and disguised themselves as waiters to identify Ning Qi.
• Qianqian and Xu Feng delivered pastries to Ning Qi's room, then followed him, Li Xiangrou, and Medicine Spirit from the auction to their inn.
• Qianqian and Xu Feng approached an inn attendant and prepared to ask where Ning Qi and his companions were staying.

Ning Qi helped Li Xiangrou refine an Immortal Herb and medicinal pills, raising her strength to Half-Step True Immortal. Meanwhile, Qianqian and Xu Feng tracked them to their courtyard and were thrown out by Ning Qi, further entangling him with Myriad Sword Sect.

• Ning Qi warned that the investigation into the dead attendant could lead back to him, but said he and Li Xiangrou would leave before anyone found evidence.
• Ning Qi refined the Immortal Herb for Li Xiangrou, strengthening her physique and raising her cultivation to Half-Step True Immortal.
• Qianqian and Xu Feng followed the attendant's directions to Ning Qi's Sumeru Courtyard, where the Medicine Spirit confronted and struck Xu Feng.
• Ning Qi emerged, recognized Qianqian as the woman who had fought him over a treasure, and refused to hand it over.
• Ning Qi blasted Qianqian and Xu Feng out of the courtyard and ordered the guards to have the inn deal with whoever revealed their location.

Ning Qi and Li Xiangrou set out for her dynasty after he gave her a Jade Pendant that could help her find him and protect her in a crisis. Their convoy entered Black Wind Ridge, where Commander Li warned that mountain bandits might attack.

• Ning Qi dismissed concerns about the Myriad Sword Sect, and Li Xiangrou thanked him after reaching Half-Step True Immortal strength.
• Ning Qi told Li Xiangrou about his True Martial Spirit World and Immortal-Demon Power, then gave her a blood-colored Jade Pendant containing his location and a Celestial Immortal attack.
• Commander Li reported that the Myriad Sword Sect woman had been warned and that the inn attendant had been dealt with, then led Ning Qi and Li Xiangrou's convoy out of Cloud City.
• Li Xiangrou explained that four of the Myriad Sword Sect's ten great elders came from her dynasty and would defend it from outside threats, though they stayed out of its internal conflicts.
• Commander Li warned the convoy that mountain bandits might attack in Black Wind Ridge, and the guards readied their weapons.

Ning Qi urged Li Xiangrou to protect the caravan when mountain bandits ambushed it, and she revealed her Half-Step True Immortal strength to rally the guards. As two powerful enemies confronted her, Ning Qi chose to watch and test her potential, confident she was safe with him nearby.

• Mountain bandits ambushed Commander Li's caravan with arrows and traps, killing or wounding nearly half the guards.
• Ning Qi encouraged Li Xiangrou to fight, and she leaped into battle, declaring that she would protect Commander Li and the others.
• Li Xiangrou unleashed her Half-Step True Immortal power and slaughtered many bandits, astonishing the guards.
• A powerful bandit fighter challenged Li Xiangrou, and she used her Mystic Sword to fend off his attacks and retreat beyond his reach.
• A second burly fighter joined the first, while Commander Li and the guards stepped forward to defend Li Xiangrou.
• The Medicine Spirit worried that Li Xiangrou could not defeat the two fighters, but Ning Qi refused to intervene and said he wanted to see her potential.

Ning Qi secretly strengthened Li Xiangrou’s attacks, helping her defeat two attackers before revealing himself to protect her from Zhao Tianling and three other True Immortal experts. He killed the four enemies, though Zhao Tianling’s soul blood escaped, and the survivors prepared to continue their journey after clearing the battlefield.

• Ning Qi secretly reinforced Li Xiangrou’s Sword Qi, allowing her to kill two powerful men who had attacked her.
• Zhao Tianling emerged with three True Immortal experts, and Li Xiangrou warned Ning Qi to flee as they prepared to attack.
• Ning Qi revealed his Heavenly Immortal strength and swiftly killed three of the experts, while Zhao Tianling’s soul blood escaped as his body was destroyed.
• Commander Li and Li Xiangrou led their forces in defeating the remaining enemies and avenging their fallen guards.
• Commander Li and Li Xiangrou thanked Ning Qi, then organized the group to move on while Li Xiangrou stayed to gather the guards’ bodies.

After Li Xiangrou’s party reached a Yue Country relay station, her elder sister Li Fengrou plotted to prevent her return to the imperial city and arranged for Xue Jiancheng to follow secretly. Ning Qi promised to protect Li Xiangrou as they set out again, expecting stronger enemies along the road.

• Li Xiangrou helped the guards clean up after the battle, and the party traveled to a relay station inside Yue Country’s borders.
• Ning Qi cultivated through the night while Li Fengrou learned that four True Immortal experts had been killed and planned to use Xiao Lingtian to stop Li Xiangrou.
• Li Fengrou ordered Xue Jiancheng to follow the party secretly and intervene if Xiao Lingtian failed.
• Li Xiangrou told Ning Qi that her elder sister would block her return, and Ning Qi promised to protect her on the journey.
• The party departed the relay station, and Ning Qi encouraged Li Xiangrou to cultivate with the elixirs, techniques, and weapons he had given her.

Ning Qi warned Li Xiangrou and Commander Li that powerful enemies had surrounded their procession, then flew out to confront Xiao Lingtian, a Celestial Immortal seeking revenge for his disciples. Ning Qi revealed his Immortal-Demon Power and golden Immortal Clan bloodline, repelled Xiao Lingtian’s attacks, and began fighting him with the Crimson Fire Immortal Art.

• Ning Qi sensed powerful enemies approaching and told Li Xiangrou to protect the procession while he went to meet them.
• Li Xiangrou warned Commander Li, who stopped the procession and prepared the guards to defend against an attack.
• Ning Qi confronted Xiao Lingtian, who identified him as the killer of his disciples and attacked with Celestial Immortal strength.
• Ning Qi revealed his Immortal-Demon Power and golden bloodline, while Li Xiangrou and the guards recognized him as an immortal; Xue Jiancheng watched from hiding and considered a sneak attack.
• Ning Qi used the Bronze Mirror to absorb Xiao Lingtian’s sword attack, then clashed with him using the Immortal Slaying Sword and forced him back.
• Ning Qi put away his sword and activated the Crimson Fire Immortal Art, charging at Xiao Lingtian in a mass of flame.

Ning Qi defeated Xiao Lingtian and the forces ambushing Li Xiangrou’s party, then ordered the survivors to carry his head back as a warning to the eldest princess. The convoy continued toward the imperial city, where Wang Mang and other officials came out to welcome Li Xiangrou.

• Ning Qi used Chaos Blazing Flames to kill the attackers surrounding Li Xiangrou’s group and struck Xue Jiancheng down with thunder, though Xue Jiancheng transmitted his recorded information before dying.
• Xiao Lingtian ambushed Ning Qi with the Profound Heaven Seal, but Ning Qi pierced through it with an arrow from the God Slaying Bow and killed him with the Immortal Slaying Sword.
• Ning Qi told Xiao Lingtian’s surviving followers to carry his head back and warn the princess to welcome them properly, then resumed the journey with Li Xiangrou and Commander Li.
• Commander Li explained that Xiao Lingtian had been one of Yue Country’s top experts and that his death left the road to the imperial city clear.
• At the city outskirts, Li Xiangrou said she would remove her eldest sister’s supporters, and Wang Mang and his officials welcomed her before the convoy entered the city.

Li Xiangrou returned to the city with Ning Qi and attended a lavish welcoming banquet hosted by Wang Mang, who tried to win her favor and offer an escort. She refused his troops but agreed to watch performances at a lakeside pleasure boat, where Wang Mang led her and Ning Qi aboard the largest vessel.

• Li Xiangrou thanked Ning Qi for his help and arrived at the City Lord’s Mansion, where Wang Mang and the city officials welcomed her.
• Wang Mang hosted a banquet for Li Xiangrou, and she announced that she would leave for the imperial city the next day.
• Wang Mang offered to escort Li Xiangrou, but she refused his troops and said she had people of her own to rely on.
• Li Xiangrou told Ning Qi she would use Wang Mang temporarily and deal with him later, once she had built her own base of support.
• Wang Mang took Li Xiangrou and Ning Qi to a lakeside entertainment venue and led them aboard its largest pleasure boat.

Li Xiangrou rejected the lavish entertainment and told Ning Qi she wanted strength to protect herself and those she cared about. After she returned to the City Lord’s Mansion, Wang Mang revealed to his subordinates that he had drugged her personal guards and planned to frame her for losing her chastity.

• Li Xiangrou watched the fireworks and performances with Ning Qi, then said she wanted strength rather than an extravagant life.
• Ning Qi promised to provide Li Xiangrou with cultivation techniques and magic treasures, and she agreed to rely on herself once he was gone.
• Wang Mang escorted Li Xiangrou back to the City Lord’s Mansion, where Ning Qi ordered Commander Li to split the guards into two patrol teams.
• Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit suspected Wang Mang was plotting, while Wang Mang’s officers debated Ning Qi’s identity and strength.
• After receiving a secret letter directing him to use a soft approach, Wang Mang told his officers he had drugged Li Xiangrou’s personal guards and planned to spread rumors that she had lost her chastity.

Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit saved Li Xiangrou after she was drugged at the City Lord's Mansion, and Ning Qi uncovered how the scheme had been set up. Li Xiangrou chose to leave for the imperial city at full speed, while Wang Mang tried to make her stay.

• Medicine Spirit absorbed the aphrodisiac that had overwhelmed Li Xiangrou and stayed nearby until she recovered.
• Li Xiangrou learned that Wang Mang and his associates had used flowers and pollen in her room to trigger the drug, but Ning Qi stopped her from confronting them.
• Li Xiangrou told Commander Li to prepare the party to leave at full speed and ordered him to keep the incident quiet.
• Ning Qi and Li Xiangrou waited with the guards outside the City Lord's Mansion for Commander Li to return.
• Wang Mang arrived with his associates and urged Li Xiangrou to stay for lunch.

Li Xiangrou and Ning Qi traveled toward the Yue Country imperial city, where she planned to confront the tangled powers that had driven her away. After reaching a relay station near the city, Li Xiangrou received word that the Duke requested an audience.

• Li Xiangrou told Ning Qi she would sweep away the people who had deceived her, and he promised to help her resolve the problems in the imperial city.
• Ning Qi told Li Xiangrou about his True Martial Spirit World and explained why he intended to strengthen its own foundation rather than move elsewhere.
• Li Xiangrou revealed that she had left Yue Country after being pushed aside by her imperial elder sister, then returned after learning that Father Emperor was gravely ill.
• The convoy crossed the mountains and reached a lively relay station on the plains near the imperial city.
• Li Xiangrou and Ning Qi ate in a private room at the relay station, where a guard arrived to announce that the Duke requested an audience.

Li Xiangrou returned to Yue Country intending to seize power, and she used Duke Zhao Tianxiong to spread word of her plans to the imperial factions. The next day, she and Ning Qi reached the imperial city, where soldiers blocked their convoy and refused to believe she was the Second Princess.

• Li Xiangrou told Zhao Tianxiong she had returned to claim power and warned him to tell the imperial factions not to interfere.
• Zhao Tianxiong left intending to report her plans to the Emperor and the Eldest Princess, while Li Xiangrou expected the news to draw her opponents out.
• Ning Qi and Li Xiangrou rested overnight, then set out for the imperial city with Commander Li and their convoy.
• The convoy reached the imperial city gates, where no officials had come to receive Li Xiangrou.
• When Commander Li identified Li Xiangrou as the Second Princess, the gate soldier accused the convoy of impersonation and ordered his men to seize them.

Li Xiangrou returned to Yue Country to claim the throne, but palace officials delayed and disrespected her until Ning Qi forced the confrontation. He demanded that her father abdicate and pass the throne to her.

• Commander Li showed Princess Li Xiangrou's token to secure her convoy's entry into the city, while officials imposed further restrictions at the imperial palace.
• Li Xiangrou waited in a side hall for her father, who failed to receive her for more than half an hour.
• Ning Qi confronted a palace maid who challenged Li Xiangrou and sent the imperial guards flying with his Heavenly Immortal Peak aura.
• Ning Qi urged Li Xiangrou to choose between visiting her family and claiming the throne, and she firmly chose to become queen.
• Li Xiangrou's father emerged and ordered Ning Qi seized, but Ning Qi's immortal aura forced those present to their knees.
• Ning Qi demanded that the king abdicate and pass the throne to Li Xiangrou.

Ning Qi forced the Yue Country court to accept Li Xiangrou as its new ruler and crushed resistance with overwhelming power. The officials knelt to Li Xiangrou, while Li Xiaotian abandoned his opposition.

• Ning Qi ordered Li Xiaotian to gather the court and threatened to destroy the imperial city if he refused.
• Ning Qi urged Li Xiangrou to act decisively, and she sat on the dragon throne as the officials assembled.
• Li Xiaotian announced his abdication and named Princess Xiangxiang the next ruler, prompting Li Fengrou, Zhao Tianxiong, and other officials to object.
• Ning Qi killed the loudest objectors and defeated Xu Wannian when he intervened, then warned Li Xiaotian against further schemes.
• The officials and Li Xiaotian knelt to Li Xiangrou, who accepted their greetings and ordered them to rise.

After Li Xiangrou took control of Yue Country, Ning Qi agreed to attend her enthronement before heading to an auction in the imperial city. There, he planned to seek information about Buzhou Mountain and vowed to protect Li Xiangrou if anyone disrupted her ceremony.

• Li Xiangrou announced that Yue Country would be renamed Yongning Tianxia when she ascended the throne, then dismissed the court.
• Li Xiaotian asked Li Xiangrou to spare her siblings, and she agreed not to kill them while confirming that their titles would be stripped.
• Ning Qi promised to attend Li Xiangrou's enthronement, praised her bearing, and accepted her arrangements to stay in Jingxiang Tower.
• Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit discussed finding fragments of Buzhou Mountain and decided to visit an auction held by an elder of the Myriad Sword Sect.
• Ning Qi entered a private room at the auction and said he would help Li Xiangrou deal with anyone who caused trouble at her ceremony.

Ning Qi attended a banquet hosted by Li Fengrou, where she and the officials sought his help securing their futures under Li Xiangrou's rule. He agreed to speak for them and advised Li Fengrou to surrender her military authority; after returning to the imperial city, they encountered Li Xiangrou.

• Li Fengrou invited Ning Qi to Phoenix King's Mansion, where she and several officials welcomed him with a feast.
• Ning Qi told the officials he would ask Li Xiangrou not to punish them, provided they stopped opposing her and continued serving Yue Country.
• Li Fengrou agreed to hand over her military tally and people, and said she would live in seclusion with her father; the generals pledged their support to Li Xiangrou.
• Ning Qi advised the generals not to make sudden moves that might provoke neighboring nations, and urged everyone to reassure their followers.
• Ning Qi and Li Fengrou returned to the imperial city, where Li Xiangrou called out to her imperial sister.

Ning Qi watched Li Xiangrou ascend the throne of Yue Country and prepared to leave for the Myriad Sword Sect to find Xu Qingqiu. After the ceremony, Li Fengrou asked to follow him and become his disciple, but Ning Qi refused.

• Li Xiangrou thanked Ning Qi for helping her secure the throne, and he told her he would leave after her enthronement ceremony.
• Generals arrived to hand over their military authority, while Wang Zhenggan and Xu Qingqiu discussed whether to attend the ceremony at the Myriad Sword Sect.
• Ning Qi watched from the sky as Li Xiangrou was crowned ruler of Yue Country and paraded through the city.
• Ning Qi returned to the rear garden, where Li Fengrou asked to leave with him and become his disciple.
• Ning Qi refused Li Fengrou's request as she knelt before him.

Ning Qi left Yue Country after helping Li Xiangrou secure her rule and traveled to the Myriad Sword Sect to visit Xu Qingqiu. After clashing with Cloud City’s lord on the way, he reached the sect and was escorted inside by Xu Qingqiu’s fellow disciples.

• Ning Qi refused Li Fengrou’s request to become his disciple, warned her not to harm Li Xiangrou, and said Li Xiangrou could teach her the cultivation techniques he had passed on.
• Ning Qi congratulated Li Xiangrou on reaching True Immortal strength, then left Yue Country despite her asking him to stay longer.
• After Ning Qi departed, intruders probing Yue Country’s imperial city were killed or driven off, and his voice forbade anyone above True Immortal strength from entering.
• In Cloud City, the city lord attacked Ning Qi for flying over the city; Ning Qi defeated him and continued toward the Myriad Sword Sect.
• At the Myriad Sword Sect’s mountain gate, Ning Qi showed Xu Qingqiu’s jade pendant, and a disciple recognized it and escorted him inside to see her.

Ning Qi reunited with Xu Qingqiu at the Myriad Sword Sect, where they shared a meal and discussed the sect's strength and its rival factions. Xu Qingqiu revealed that the Immortal Gate conscripted people to fight at the Boundary Sea Battlefield, leaving Ning Qi curious about the dangerous place.

• Ning Qi arrived at Xu Qingqiu's residence and reunited with her, while the Medicine Spirit joyfully reunited with the Nine-Tailed Cat.
• Xu Qingqiu brought Ning Qi to her master's courtyard, but learned her master had gone to meet the Sect Master, so she offered to cook for Ning Qi herself.
• Xu Qingqiu, Ning Qi, the Medicine Spirit, and the Nine-Tailed Cat prepared and ate a meal as Xu Qingqiu explained the Myriad Sword Sect's powerful leaders and their rivals.
• Ning Qi asked about the strength of other sects, and Xu Qingqiu explained that the three factions avoided open conflict because the others would join forces.
• Xu Qingqiu said the Immortal Gate conscripted people each year to fight at the Boundary Sea Battlefield, and Ning Qi asked what kind of place it was.

Ning Qi learned how the Boundary Sea Battlefield protected the surrounding regions and accepted Xu Qingqiu’s offer to join the Myriad Sword Sect’s trial there next month. Wang Zhenggan approved their plan, and Xu Qingqiu said she would bring her Senior Brother along.

• Xu Qingqiu explained the Boundary Sea Battlefield, the Twisted Monsters, and how the outer, inner, and core regions shared the burden of defending against them.
• Xu Qingqiu offered Ning Qi a place on the Myriad Sword Sect’s group heading to the trial ground in a month, and he agreed to go.
• Xu Qingqiu told Ning Qi that she would accompany him and give him her available spot, despite his concern for her safety.
• Xu Qingqiu asked Wang Zhenggan for permission to attend the trial with Ning Qi, and he agreed while advising them to recruit more companions.
• Xu Qingqiu and Ning Qi left to explore the nearby town, and she said she planned to bring her Senior Brother on the trial.

Xu Qingqiu brought Ning Qi to meet her Second Senior Brother, Liu Baifeng, and asked him to join their trip to the Boundary Sea Battlefield. Liu Baifeng agreed, and after a dinner together, Ning Qi wondered why he drank away his sorrows so often.

• Xu Qingqiu and Ning Qi left the Myriad Sword Sect and brushed off Gao Yunze when he tried to stop them and invoke their supposed marriage agreement.
• Xu Qingqiu told Ning Qi that her sect could enter the Fourteen Region if one of its experts reached the required strength, and Ning Qi revealed he had reached Celestial Immortal strength.
• Xu Qingqiu led Ning Qi to Deshun Tower, where they met Liu Baifeng, her Second Senior Brother.
• Xu Qingqiu asked Liu Baifeng to join their trip to the Boundary Sea Battlefield and bring Ning Qi along, and Liu Baifeng agreed while warning Ning Qi to follow their arrangements.
• Liu Baifeng stayed at the restaurant after dinner, and Ning Qi asked Xu Qingqiu whether her senior brother was drinking to drown his sorrows.

Ning Qi and Xu Qingqiu enjoyed the town festivities before entering an auction, where they kept out of sight from Gao Yunze and his companions. As the auction began, they passed on several unappealing items until Medicine Spirit spotted something promising.

• Xu Qingqiu explained the Myriad Sword Sect's elder ranks and why its leaders strictly controlled disciples who defected.
• Ning Qi and Xu Qingqiu watched street performers and sampled snacks while Gao Yunze and several disciples secretly followed them.
• Ning Qi rented a private auction room for five hundred Top-grade Spirit Stones, and Gao Yunze waited downstairs for a chance to confront him.
• The auction opened with a breastplate that Ning Qi and Xu Qingqiu declined to bid on, and they judged several other lots to be unimpressive.
• Medicine Spirit spotted a promising item as the auction continued.

Ning Qi bid on a Golden Immortal corpse and armor after sensing a reaction from his Immortal Clan Bloodline Power, then competed with a young man for the Weaving Fate ribbon. He won the ribbon for one hundred million Spirit Marrow Liquid, while the rival vowed to make him pay.

• The auctioneer revealed a Golden Immortal corpse and Immortal Artifact armor, and Ning Qi bid twenty-five million Spirit Marrow Crystals to win them.
• A young man in another private room recognized Xu Qingqiu as Wang Zhenggan’s disciple and chose to let Ning Qi have the corpse, while suggesting it might not remain his for long.
• Ning Qi paid for the corpse and stored it away as the auction continued.
• The auctioneer presented the Weaving Fate ribbon, and Ning Qi bid on it despite Xu Qingqiu questioning why he wanted a weapon made for women.
• The young man repeatedly raised the ribbon’s price against Ning Qi, who won it with a bid of one hundred million Spirit Marrow Liquid.
• The young man threatened to make Ning Qi pay, but his old man urged him to endure the insult because Ning Qi was clearly no ordinary person.