Recaps

Chu Huai Xu entered the Dao Sect with Han Shuangjiang, began cultivating the dangerous Sword Refining Art, and fought the instructor Liu Chengqi. The arc ended with Liu Chenggong arriving to arrest Chu Huai Xu over the fight.

• Chu Huai Xu discovered he could not log out of Borrowed Sword and learned that his character was an NPC, while masked agents watched him escape the Patrol Office.
• Li Chunsong brought Chu Huai Xu and Han Shuangjiang to the Dao Sect, where they became Registered Disciples and chose their cultivation methods.
• Chu Huai Xu selected the Sword Refining Art, opened his first orifice in three breaths, and formed a Dust-Covered Heart Sword Spirit Embryo.
• Chu Huai Xu and Han Shuangjiang agreed to cultivate together, and both reached their second aperture while dealing with the costs of life in the Outer Sect.
• Chu Huai Xu and Han Shuangjiang hired Liu Chengqi to teach them martial arts, but Chu Huai Xu fought him after he touched Han Shuangjiang and crippled his arm.
• Chu Huai Xu sent Han Shuangjiang to Niu Yuanshan with Erlang Wine while he stayed home, and his System issued the Class A mission Liu Chengqi’s Revenge.
• Liu Chenggong arrived with two Black Robes and ordered Chu Huai Xu to come with them, accusing him of starting a private fight, injuring someone, and stealing money.

After surviving Liu Tianfeng’s punishment, Chu Huai Xu and Han Shuangjiang entered the Pill King Secret Realm and overcame its trials to obtain a Xuantian Fetal Breath Pill. The pill raised Chu Huai Xu’s Spiritual Fetus and awakened Clear Heart Sword, drawing the Dao Sect’s attention and prompting Chu Yinyin to claim him as her True Disciple.

• Liu Tianfeng tried to punish Chu Huai Xu for injuring Liu Chengqi, but Niu Yuanshan intervened and revealed that Sixth Elder Li Chunsong had brought Chu Huai Xu and Han Shuangjiang to the mountain.
• Chu Huai Xu received a Jade Token Fragment from Liu Tianfeng, then struck Liu Chengqi again while Niu Yuanshan held Liu Tianfeng back.
• Niu Yuanshan explained that the fragments opened a Secret Realm beneath the Cold Pool, and Chu Huai Xu and Han Shuangjiang prepared to enter it.
• Liu Tianfeng led the group into the Cold Pool, and Chu Huai Xu and Han Shuangjiang entered Cave Seven together before escaping its illusionary maze.
• Chu Huai Xu and Han Shuangjiang endured the Water Blade trial, and Chu Huai Xu opened the chamber door with the Spirit Disk.
• Chu Huai Xu found Lei Wenyen’s message and the Xuantian Fetal Breath Pill, then swallowed it as Han Shuangjiang guarded him.
• The pill raised Chu Huai Xu’s Spiritual Fetus and awakened Clear Heart Sword, causing swords across the Dao Sect to react to the power beneath the Cold Pool.
• Shen Man confirmed that Chu Huai Xu had Clear Heart Sword, and Chu Yinyin decided to make him her True Disciple as Xiang Yan ordered the Sixth Elder to bring him in after his Secluded Cultivation.

Chu Huai Xu helped Xu Ziqing begin cultivating, opened his Ninth Aperture, and chose the Dao Canon despite its dangerous reputation. After he and Han Shuangjiang reached the First Heaven, they set out to climb Hidden Spirit Mountain, where Chu Huai Xu began ascending without feeling the expected Spiritual Pressure.

• The Dao Sect elders examined Chu Huai Xu after his anomaly and discovered that his Clear Heart Sword was a Sword Spirit in his Sea of Consciousness, so Xiang Yan ordered a Restriction placed on him.
• Li Chunsong sent Chu Huai Xu to register Xu Ziqing as a Registered Disciple, and Chu Huai Xu gave him the Sword Refining Art, cultivation notes, and staged instructions.
• Chu Huai Xu took Xu Ziqing into the Secret Realm to endure the Water Blades and absorb Body Tempering Potion, helping him break through his first two acupoints.
• Chu Huai Xu opened his Ninth Aperture, awakening the World-Saving Sword on Hidden Spirit Mountain and alarming the Dao Sect’s leaders.
• Chu Huai Xu and Han Shuangjiang broke through the Scripture Pavilion’s barriers, then chose the Dao Canon and Six Imperial True Canon respectively and memorized Myriad Swords Returning to the Origin.
• Chu Huai Xu suffered severe pain while advancing with the Dao Canon and discovered that his Spiritual Power had divided equally between his Spiritual Embryo Treasury and his flesh.
• Han Shuangjiang reached the First Heaven before Chu Huai Xu, and Mo Qingmei gave them Charred Black Wood Tokens to visit Hidden Spirit Mountain.
• Nangong Yue explained the mountain’s Spiritual Pressure and artifact trials, then Chu Huai Xu stepped onto the first Stone Step and climbed without feeling any pressure.

Chu Huai Xu climbed Hidden Spirit Mountain, resisted the Dao Ancestor’s sword, and claimed the Black Wood Sword Sheath and its hidden treasures. As he prepared for the Eastern Continent competition and helped Xu Ziqing advance, the Dao Sect elders competed to support him as a future disciple.

• Li Chunsong recalled how Chu Huai Xu had won his affection, while Chu Huai Xu climbed Hidden Spirit Mountain and found that the Spiritual Pressure did not trouble him.
• Chu Huai Xu passed the mountain’s swords and reached its summit, where he endured the Dao Ancestor’s Bronze Sword trying to tame him.
• Chu Huai Xu took the Black Bead and Sword Sheath, escaped the mountain, and later named the sheath Calming the Waves and bound the bead and its Medicine Cauldron as Natal Spirit Artifacts.
• Chu Huai Xu returned to the summit, refused to be controlled by the Bronze Sword, engraved a defiant message on the Junzi Tablet, and broke through to the First Realm Third Layer Heaven.
• Han Shuangjiang claimed Partridge Sky, while Chu Yinyin offered to take Chu Huai Xu as a disciple and the elders asked him to represent the Dao Sect in the Eastern Continent First Realm Grand Competition.
• Chu Huai Xu retrieved Xu Ziqing from the Cold Pond Secret Realm, accepted his incomplete Six Severances sword art, and gave him a Xuantian Fetal Breath Pill that improved his Spirit Fetus.
• Chu Huai Xu studied alchemy, refined and sold Qi Gathering Pills, while Xu Ziqing refined Six Severances and opened his Seventh Acupoint.
• The Dao Sect elders arranged gifts for Chu Huai Xu, and Chu Yinyin gave him two Profound Grade Sorcery Jade slips and a black Magic Artifact robe.