Recaps

Xu Yi endured Third Young Master Yun’s relentless Eight Winds Sword assault by burning through Spirit Stones and relying on his Hundred Spirits Battle Robe. As both fighters neared the limits of their resources, Yun used a rare Level 1 Grade 4 Water Talisman to stop Xu Yi’s attempt to rush him.

• Xu Yi broke free of the mountain of light with six Swift Body Talismans, then survived its explosion and repeated sword strikes with his battle robe and Spirit Stones.
• Third Young Master Yun grew frustrated that his inherited mind arts and Eight Winds Sword had failed to kill Xu Yi, and blamed Princess Yinqiu for the fight.
• Xu Yi spent nearly ten mid-grade Spirit Stones while cracks spread across his Hundred Spirits Battle Robe, leaving him with only a few breaths of protection.
• Xu Yi used a Swift Wind Talisman to charge Third Young Master Yun, but Yun countered with a blue talisman and halted his advance.
• Third Young Master Yun revealed that his talisman was a rare Level 1 Grade 4 Water Talisman, which he had used after deciding to risk everything to finish the fight.

Third Young Master Yun used an Ice Sword Talisman to stop Xu Yi’s escape and blasted him beneath a mound of earth, but Xu Yi survived and turned the fight around. The chapter ended with Xu Yi stabbing Third Young Master Yun with his bone sword after damaging the Eight Winds Sword.

• Third Young Master Yun activated an Ice Sword Talisman that froze the surroundings and sent thousands of ice swords toward Xu Yi, disabling his Swift Wind Talisman.
• Xu Yi shielded himself with True Fire Malice and the Profound Thunder Body Tempering Art, but the attack’s explosion buried him beneath rocks and earth.
• Third Young Master Yun found Xu Yi still alive and slashed at him with the Eight Winds Sword.
• Xu Yi’s jade-colored little sword shattered two parts of the Eight Winds Sword, wounding Third Young Master Yun’s True Soul.
• Xu Yi used the Swift Wind Talisman to surprise Third Young Master Yun and drove his bone sword into his chest.

Xu Yi defeated Third Young Master Yun with the Shapeshifting Bone Sword, then captured his fleeing True Soul Figure with the Soul-Summoning Banner before collapsing. The Heir of the Yun Family arrived at the battlefield and began searching for clues to Yun San’s death, but his men found no clear answer.

• Xu Yi broke Third Young Master Yun’s Eight Winds Sword Formation and Protective Light Barrier, then pierced his body with the Shapeshifting Bone Sword.
• Third Young Master Yun’s Skull Ring sent a divine sense into Xu Yi’s spiritual platform, but the lightning mark destroyed it as Xu Yi continued his attack.
• Third Young Master Yun’s True Soul Figure escaped his body, but Xu Yi caught it with the Soul-Summoning Banner, ending the battle.
• Xu Yi fell into the bushes, activated the Hidden Spirit Pearl, and fainted from his injuries and spiritual exhaustion.
• The Heir of the Yun Family arrived with cloaked subordinates and ordered them to search the area, but their findings left him unable to determine who had killed Yun San.

Xu Yi recovered after killing Third Young Master Yun, escaped to Wudan City, and inspected the treasures in Yun San’s Sumeru Ring. Discovering a glowing fragment of the Heavenly God Chart, he also began questioning the confidence he had gained from past victories.

• The Heir of the Yun Family examined the battle evidence, failed to identify Third Young Master Yun’s killer, and left with his followers.
• Xu Yi awoke beside Yun San’s remains, drove off a wolf, burned the corpse to ash, and took Yun San’s Sumeru Ring.
• Xu Yi flew to Wudan City, rented a secure alchemy chamber, and used the Hidden Spirit Pearl to conceal himself.
• Xu Yi opened Yun San’s Sumeru Ring and found Spirit Stones, talismans, porcelain-core beads, and a glowing fragment of the Heavenly God Chart.
• Xu Yi reflected on his battle with Yun San and began doubting the confidence he had built from relying on wind talismans.

Xu Yi reflected on how he survived Third Young Master Yun’s Grade 4 Ice Sword Talisman and realized luck had mattered as much as his defenses. Yun Mingmie then accused him of killing Yun San and revealed he believed Xu Yi was involved with Princess Yinqiu, while Xu Yi warned him against sending the Shadow-Sound Pearl to the Heir of the Yun Family.

• Xu Yi recalled how his four defenses failed against Third Young Master Yun’s ice-sword storm, while True Fire Malice protected his bones and meridians from the talisman’s elemental power.
• Xu Yi resolved to act with greater caution and wondered why the Swift Wind Talisman’s power had vanished when Third Young Master Yun activated his Ice Sword Talisman.
• Yun Mingmie contacted Xu Yi and accused him of killing Yun San, claiming Xu Yi was the only person capable of doing it.
• Yun Mingmie said he had investigated Third Young Master Yun’s pursuit of Xu Yi and concluded that Xu Yi was secretly involved with Princess Yinqiu.
• Xu Yi told Yun Mingmie he was tired of living and asked whether he feared the Heir of the Yun Family would receive the Shadow-Sound Pearl.

Xu Yi realized Yun Mingmie had lured him toward a deadly trap in Guan Chong City, but he still set out to protect Princess Yinqiu. Meanwhile, Old Qin learned of Third Young Master Yun’s death and began a divination for Xu Yi.

• Xu Yi admitted to Yun Mingmie that he had killed Yun San, and Yun Mingmie gave him Guan Chong City as a warning before ending their call.
• Yun Mingmie revealed that he had used Xu Yi’s affair with Princess Yinqiu to draw him toward danger and hoped the upheaval there would kill him.
• Xu Yi deduced that Guan Chong City was a trap but decided to go there to keep Princess Yinqiu safe.
• Xu Yi studied a map, calculated when the wedding escort would reach Guan Chong City, and left to use a teleportation array.
• A man in white told Old Qin that Third Young Master Yun had died, and Old Qin began a divination using an eight-trigram pattern and three gold coins.

Old Qin’s attempt to divine Xu Yi’s fate triggered Heaven’s retribution, killing him and destroying his tortoiseshell. Xu Yi arrived in Guan Chong City, where he believed the city’s strategic position made it a likely place for danger to erupt.

• Old Qin used the Heavenly Divination of Easy Numbers to uncover the hexagram of an unknown young man, but the Gold Coins repeatedly resisted his efforts.
• Old Qin used his True Soul Figure to hold back the force distorting the hexagram and finally glimpsed the young man’s perilous fate.
• The Gold Coins burst apart, and a sudden bolt of lightning destroyed Old Qin’s True Soul Figure and killed him.
• A fifth-level Star Official arrived, examined Old Qin’s cracked Dragon Tortoise shell, and said that Old Qin had suffered Heaven’s retribution while divining an unknown mystery.
• Xu Yi arrived in Guan Chong City after traveling from Wudan City by teleportation arrays and reasoned that its strategic position made it a likely site of danger.
• Xu Yi entered a shop dealing in refining chambers and completed the formalities.

Xu Yi followed a suspicious cultivator who turned out to be his old acquaintance Liu Yinglin, then returned to Shopkeeper Cao to ask why Seven Insects Seven Flowers Grass had suddenly become popular. The chapter ended with Xu Yi pressing Shopkeeper Cao for an explanation.

• Xu Yi bought a Time Hourglass and noticed a disguised man asking Shopkeeper Cao about Seven Insects Seven Flowers Grass.
• Xu Yi secretly followed the man to an inn and found that a barrier blocked his spiritual sense from entering the man's room.
• Xu Yi recognized the man as Liu Yinglin and restrained him, but released him after they spoke about their past in the Chaotic Star Sea.
• Xu Yi returned to Shopkeeper Cao's shop, bought a Clear Sound Box, and asked again about the unusual demand for Seven Insects Seven Flowers Grass.

Xu Yi restored his damaged Hundred Spirits Battle Robe and entered seclusion in Guan Chong City to improve his Fire Element talisman arts before Princess Yinqiu’s wedding procession arrived. He began experimenting with the structures of the Flame Burst Talisman, relying on his supplies, a Spirit Gathering Array, and his newly strengthened soul.

• Shopkeeper Cao told Xu Yi that Seven Insects Seven Flowers Grass was common but had recently been bought up across the city.
• Xu Yi repaired the Hundred Spirits Battle Robe with four mid-grade Spirit Stones, leaving seven in his pouch.
• Xu Yi went underground to the earthfire workshop, determined to gain the strength to escort Princess Yinqiu safely from the shadows.
• Xu Yi set up a Spirit Gathering Array and began constructing the twelve basic structures needed for the Flame Burst Talisman.
• Xu Yi drew confidence from his thousands of Fire Element Spirit Stones, prepared talisman paper, and newly cultivated True Spirit Circle and divine sense.

Xu Yi spent weeks practicing the twelve structures needed for a Flame Burst Talisman, while his True Spirit Circle began developing an inner hollow that brought him closer to a breakthrough. After exhausting his supplies and recovering at a restaurant, he met Liu Yinglin, who had been waiting in disguise.

• Xu Yi repeatedly practiced inscribing fire talisman structures, resting briefly and using up his spirit stones and supplies.
• After mastering all twelve structures, Xu Yi spent seven more days testing them and finally completed his study of the individual patterns.
• Xu Yi noticed a short yin line forming on his True Spirit Circle, giving him hope of reaching True Spirit Circle Great Perfection and attempting the Yang Venerable Realm breakthrough.
• Xu Yi left his empty refining room, ate three banquets at a restaurant, and rested with tea while waiting for Liu Yinglin.
• Liu Yinglin, disguised as a middle-aged man in green, joined Xu Yi, who greeted him with a remark about having waited long enough.

Xu Yi uncovered Liu Yinglin’s group’s plan to target the County Princess of Jiannan Road’s wedding procession and defeated them with his powerful divine sense. He left Liu Yinglin’s team incapacitated and took their Sumeru Rings.

• Xu Yi sensed someone probing him and waited for Liu Yinglin to approach him at a restaurant.
• Liu Yinglin led Xu Yi to a secluded mansion and questioned him about how he had concealed his resentment and what role he held in the Sacred Court.
• Xu Yi revealed that he was escorting the County Princess of Jiannan Road, and Liu Yinglin’s reaction confirmed that his group planned to target the wedding procession.
• Seven or eight members of Liu Yinglin’s group emerged from hiding, including a purple-bearded man who attacked Xu Yi with divine sense.
• Xu Yi overwhelmed the group with his fourth-tier divine sense, sealed the area with the Hidden Spirit Pearl, and seized their Sumeru Rings.

Xu Yi encountered Mu Guangming, the Venerate of Light, while searching the Sumeru Rings of his attackers. Mu Guangming offered to teach Xu Yi about cultivation, leaving Xu Yi thrilled at the chance to find a path beyond the True Spirit Circle.

• Xu Yi used divine sense to open the Sumeru Rings and found messaging spheres and a topographical map among the attackers' possessions.
• Mu Guangming appeared unexpectedly, and Xu Yi recognized him as the Venerate of Light.
• Mu Guangming reminded Xu Yi of the promise he had made at the Reward Palace and explained that he had come after learning Xu Yi was nearby.
• Mu Guangming revealed that he knew Xu Yi's background and had been watching his progress, including his unusually strong divine sense.
• Mu Guangming offered to answer Xu Yi's cultivation questions, and Xu Yi eagerly accepted the chance to learn how to advance beyond the True Spirit Circle.

Xu Yi asked Mu Guangming about talismans and the path to Yang Venerate, learning how talisman fields interact and how dangerous the breakthrough can be. Mu Guangming began explaining how a divine soul gives rise to true essence and dharma power, leaving Xu Yi eager to hear more.

• Xu Yi asked why his lower-grade Wind Talisman had failed against Third Young Master Yun's higher-grade Ice Talisman, and Mu Guangming explained that stronger talisman fields devoured weaker ones.
• Xu Yi asked about breaking through to Yang Venerate, and Mu Guangming described the Heavenly Soul, the minor thunder tribulation, and the lethal danger of enduring Thunder True Intent.
• Mu Guangming explained that Yang Venerate cultivators united the Three Souls, formed a divine soul, and bathed it in true baleful intent to produce true essence and dharma power.
• Xu Yi eagerly asked Mu Guangming to explain true essence and dharma power further.

Mu Guangming explained how true essence and magic power worked, and Xu Yi questioned him about cultivation, spells, and Talisman Art. Xu Yi left determined to continue his cultivation and remembered Mu Guangming’s warning that he would need a proper sect to learn powerful techniques.

• Mu Guangming demonstrated Earth Control Art and explained how the Three Souls transformed True Fiend into true essence imbued with the will of Heaven and Earth.
• Xu Yi asked how a cultivator’s True Fiend shaped their comprehension of true meaning, and Mu Guangming explained that non-Five-Element paths could not reach the Yang Venerable Realm.
• Xu Yi asked how true essence worked in combat, and Mu Guangming described its growth and the importance of spells and joining a proper sect.
• Xu Yi asked how Talisman Art compared with spells, and Mu Guangming explained their different strengths, sources of power, and lack of mutual energy-field devouring.

Xu Yi learned about the path beyond the Yang Venerate realm and discovered why his Heavenly Spear Technique had failed. After Mu Guangming explained that artistic conception could shape his dense divine sense, Xu Yi demonstrated his sorrow-powered spear breaking through Mu Guangming’s spell.

• Xu Yi asked Mu Guangming about challenging Yang Venerates, higher cultivation realms, and immortality, and Mu Guangming explained the True Essence turns and their effects on lifespan.
• Mu Guangming revealed that he had reached the True Essence Third Turn and gave Xu Yi a booklet of notes about True Essence.
• Xu Yi told Mu Guangming that he had repeatedly failed to cultivate the Heavenly Spear Technique, and Mu Guangming traced the problem to the granular density caused by the Yun Household’s secret art.
• Mu Guangming said that comprehending the principles of Heaven and Earth could let Xu Yi control his dense divine sense, and Xu Yi asked whether artistic conception qualified.
• Xu Yi used his power of supreme sorrow to steady his white spear and break through one of Mu Guangming’s earthen walls with the Heavenly Spear Technique.

Xu Yi traded two Wind Talisman techniques to Mu Guangming for a promise to protect Princess Yinqiu and warned him that the Yun Family’s Heir knew about the Star Sea’s planned operation. After Mu Guangming rushed off to respond, Xu Yi contacted Steward Fang to ask about the Number One Under Heaven Sect and Yan Zi.

• Mu Guangming asked Xu Yi to trade his Wind Talisman techniques, and Xu Yi agreed to give him two.
• Xu Yi asked Mu Guangming to avoid harming Princess Yinqiu and, if possible, kill the Heir of the Yun Family.
• Xu Yi revealed that the Heir of the Yun Family had learned of the Star Sea’s planned operation in Guan Chong City.
• Mu Guangming promised to do what he could to protect Princess Yinqiu, then vanished with Liu Yinglin and the others.
• Xu Yi returned to his refining room and contacted Steward Fang to ask about the Number One Under Heaven Sect and Yan Zi.

Xu Yi completed two Level 1 Grade 3 Flame Burst Talismans after years of costly experimentation, then rushed to see the Yun Family’s wedding convoy enter the city. He reached the enormous procession and watched it pass amid a crowd of spectators.

• Xu Yi learned from Steward Fang that the Number One Under Heaven Sect remained safe from the Yun Family’s retaliation.
• Xu Yi refined two azure Level 1 Grade 3 Flame Burst Talismans, using nearly all of his remaining Fire Element Spirit Stones.
• Shopkeeper Cao told Xu Yi that the Yun Family’s wedding convoy had entered the city, and Xu Yi left without returning the Spirit Gathering Array.
• Xu Yi flew a hundred miles and spotted the nearly ten-thousand-person wedding procession, with Princess Yinqiu’s Imperial Carriage at its center.
• Xu Yi watched hidden among the crowd as palace guards scattered flowers and tossed spirit stones to cheering spectators.

Eight mirrors unleashed magnetic storms that devastated Guan Chong, killing its commoners and reducing the city to ruins as survivors turned to slaughter and looting. Xu Yi survived underground while the Imperial Carriage remained safe, but a huge claw suddenly seized him and carried him skyward.

• Eight mirrors appeared above Guan Chong and blinded people across the city before unleashing magnetic storm shock waves that shattered the city and flattened Ditian Peak and Dizhu Mountain.
• More than a thousand cultivators died in a magnetic field, while the storm killed the commoners and wiped out most of the wedding entourage and onlookers.
• Surviving cultivators attacked one another over Sumeru Rings, spirit stones, artifacts, and medicines as the city's order collapsed.
• Xu Yi stayed hidden in a hole and recognized the attack as the work of Mu Guangming and the Chaotic Star Sea's forces; he sensed Princess Yinqiu's Imperial Carriage was safe.
• A group cleared corpses from above Xu Yi as it searched the battlefield, but a huge claw grabbed his chest and abdomen and carried him into the sky.

Xu Yi escaped Tianchong City’s sinking amid a beast tide and uncovered Mu Guangming’s plan to plunder the city’s wealth. A message arrived through the Spiritual Connection Jade, and Xu Yi shot into the sky.

• A Golden Crystal Roaring Beast seized Xu Yi, but he struck it with divine sense and killed it with his small sword.
• Xu Yi saw Tianchong City sinking as sea beasts and dragon boats slaughtered the cultivators fleeing into the sky.
• Xu Yi plunged into the sea and used his strengthened wall of thought to withstand the attacking beasts.
• Xu Yi recognized Seven Insects Seven Flowers Grass and Star-colored Void-Devouring Fish, then deduced that Mu Guangming had orchestrated the disaster to loot Tianchong City’s Sumeru Rings.
• The Spiritual Connection Jade delivered Xu Yi a sorrowful poem, and he shot into the sky.

Black-and-White Eyebrows attacked Princess Yinqiu’s wedding escort, killing its senior defenders before confronting the Heir of the Yun Family. The Heir revealed signs of practicing the Soul Companion Twin Birth Art and fought to protect the fleeing princess as Black-and-White Eyebrows unleashed a deadly flood of water swords.

• Black-and-White Eyebrows killed the white-bearded elder and gold-armored general within moments, then split open Princess Yinqiu’s Imperial Carriage.
• The Heir of the Yun Family blocked Black-and-White Eyebrows’ attack on Princess Yinqiu and asked where Mu Guangming was.
• Black-and-White Eyebrows recognized the Heir’s weakened True Soul as evidence of the Soul Companion Twin Birth Art, but the Heir challenged him to fight.
• Black-and-White Eyebrows raised a massive wave and sent water swords through the surviving guards, while the Heir ordered the County Princess taken away.
• Seven cloaked figures escaped with Princess Yinqiu as the Heir of the Yun Family held off the water swords with a wall of fire.

The Heir of the Yun Family wounded Black-and-White Eyebrows while cloaked figures tried to escort Princess Yinqiu from the battlefield. As a vast army of black-armored soldiers emerged and the dragon boats attacked, the fighting erupted into a full-scale war.

• Black-and-White Eyebrows used water attacks against the Heir of the Yun Family and the cloaked figures escorting Princess Yinqiu, while the Heir burned through a water net that had caught her.
• The Heir of the Yun Family deceived Black-and-White Eyebrows with an illusion talisman and pierced his chest with a line of fire.
• The Flying Eagle cloaked figure opened a spatial gate, and True Spirit Circle Great Perfection experts arriving from the dragon boats killed dozens of attackers near Princess Yinqiu.
• A figure swept Princess Yinqiu away from the incoming energy beams, while the pale-crane cloaked figure received a Sumeru Ring from the Heir and departed with the others.
• Black-armored soldiers poured from the spatial gate and clashed with the dragon boats as sea beasts joined the battle.

Xu Yi rescued Princess Yinqiu from the marriage procession and reunited with her in a secluded valley. After she resumed her Young Master Xu disguise, they decided to return to the circuit court, and she eagerly asked whether the Heir of the Yun Family would die.

• Xu Yi carried Princess Yinqiu away from the battle and hid with her in a secluded valley.
• Princess Yinqiu recognized Xu Yi, recalled his past departure, and concealed her tears before changing back into Young Master Xu.
• Young Master Xu asked Xu Yi where he planned to take her, and he suggested returning to the circuit court.
• Young Master Xu told Xu Yi that her father had arranged the marriage alliance and that three divisions of Jiannan Road's Divine Dragon Left Guard had appeared.
• Xu Yi agreed to return to the circuit court and said the Heir of the Yun Family might not make it home alive.
• Young Master Xu grabbed Xu Yi's arm and asked if the Heir of the Yun Family would really die.

Xu Yi and Princess Yinqiu tricked the seven cloaked pursuers into underestimating them, allowing Xu Yi to kill them all with the Heavenly Spear Technique. He captured their True Soul Figures and urged Princess Yinqiu to figure out what had enabled them to track her.

• Xu Yi sensed pursuers approaching, and Young Master Xu told him to catch them off guard.
• Xu Yi struck Young Master Xu to stage a fight as seven True Spirit Circle Great Perfection experts arrived and saw him battling Princess Yinqiu.
• The man in the crane cloak ordered the group to kill Princess Yinqiu, but Xu Yi suddenly unleashed mind spears and killed all seven pursuers.
• Xu Yi captured the seven True Soul Figures in his Soul-Summoning Banner, collected their Sumeru Rings, and burned their bodies.
• Princess Yinqiu marveled at Xu Yi's strength, and he asked her what she carried that had let the pursuers track them.

Xu Yi and Young Master Xu discussed the Yun family’s ability to track them and prepared for the Yang Venerate pursuer expected to arrive after the deaths of seven Yun family experts. Young Master Xu proposed a gamble that depended on Xu Yi fighting the pursuer, and revealed her defenses against divine sense and spell attacks.

• Young Master Xu explained how blood’s pull could help the Yun family track her after the wedding and said the seven dead Yun family experts would have life talismans that alerted their kin.
• She warned Xu Yi that Yang Venerate experts, possibly including the Flying Eagle cloaked figure, would come after them, while Young Master Yun was likely to pursue his own ambitions in the Chaotic Star Sea.
• Xu Yi considered fleeing with a Swift Wind Talisman, but Young Master Xu argued that they could not outrun a Yang Venerate over ten thousand miles and urged him to gamble on her idea.
• Xu Yi agreed to the gamble and asked whether Young Master Xu could withstand divine sense attacks; she showed him a bracelet that blocked attacks below the fifth tier and a talisman garment that could withstand a hundred spells below the second tier.

Xu Yi lured the Flying Eagle cloaked figure away from Young Master Xu with a Shadow-Sound Pearl and threatened to expose his scandal. When the two clashed, the Flying Eagle cloaked figure discovered Xu Yi’s extraordinary divine sense and feared that more recordings had been hidden.

• Xu Yi gave Young Master Xu a Sumeru Ring containing Swift Body Talismans and Swift Wind Talismans, then left to draw the Flying Eagle cloaked figure away.
• The Flying Eagle cloaked figure confronted Young Master Xu, and she accused him of failing to protect her and insulting her.
• Xu Yi sent a Shadow-Sound Pearl into the air, and the Flying Eagle cloaked figure destroyed the woods it came from before discovering that it had recorded their conversation.
• The Flying Eagle cloaked figure struck at Young Master Xu with a thought-sword, but she escaped with a Swift Body Talisman as he pursued Xu Yi.
• Xu Yi blocked the Flying Eagle cloaked figure’s thought-net with his powerful divine sense and warned that more Shadow-Sound Pearls might expose him.
• The Flying Eagle cloaked figure suspected Xu Yi had planted recordings for Young Master Xu to retrieve.