Recaps

Xu Yi accepted Tu Kun’s rigged Five Elements pieces challenge to win a rare Fire Tunic, relying on his physical strength rather than demonic power. After Tu Kun magically pinned the metal piece, Xu Yi transformed into an enormous ape-like beast and lifted it into the correct position.

• Xu Yi asked for a rare Fire Tunic as the reward, and Xue Zihan agreed to Tu Kun’s mathematics test.
• Niu Tongtian exchanged high-grade Five Elements Spirit Stones with Long Jianji for a rare Fire Tunic, which Tu Kun offered as the prize.
• Tu Kun arranged the Five Elements pieces out of order and challenged Xu Yi to restore them, while Xue Zihan warned him that each piece weighed hundreds of thousands of catties.
• Xu Yi gripped the metal piece and made it tremble, shocking the crowd with his strength.
• Tu Kun used magic to pin the metal piece in the air, then challenged Xu Yi to make it tremble again.
• Xu Yi transformed into an enormous ape-like beast and lifted the metal piece into its correct position beside the wood piece.

Xu Yi defeated Tu Kun and claimed the Fire Tunic, then accepted Niu Tongtian’s challenge after learning its reward involved taking Xue Zihan to Remembering Cliff. He studied Niu Tongtian’s star chart but conceded, leaving its thirteen unconnected points circling in his thoughts.

• Xu Yi revealed his immense strength, prompting Xue Zihan to ask whether he had won, and Tu Kun’s defeat was confirmed.
• Long Jianji explained how to use the Fire Tunic, and Xu Yi accepted it from Niu Tongtian.
• Niu Tongtian challenged Xu Yi to solve a star chart, offering high-grade Five Elements Spirit Stones or asking Xue Zihan to sit for a portrait at Remembering Cliff.
• Xu Yi agreed because Remembering Cliff lay outside the Winter Palace World, and Xue Zihan trusted his decision.
• Xu Yi saw the star chart’s structure in his mind but could not connect its final thirteen points, then conceded the challenge.

After Niu Tongtian invited Xue Zihan and the others to Remembering Cliff, Xu Yi helped arrange for her to leave the Winter Palace World despite Gui Lun’s objections. The party set out on Feng Jiu, with Xu Yi riding alongside Xue Zihan, while Niu Tongtian, Long Jianji, and Tu Kun traveled with them.

• After the Spring Welcome Banquet resumed, Xu Yi tried to slip away but Niu Tongtian invited him, Xue Zihan, Long Jianji, and Tu Kun to visit Remembering Cliff.
• Xu Yi urged Xue Zihan to accept, and she agreed after recalling that she and Xu Yi still needed to find Qiu Wa.
• Gui Lun objected to Xue Zihan leaving the Winter Palace World, but Long Jianji overruled him and the group departed.
• Outside the Winter Palace World, Long Jianji offered to carry Xue Zihan, but she summoned Feng Jiu in his golden bird form instead.
• Xue Zihan let Xu Yi ride with her on Feng Jiu, who flew alongside Niu Tongtian after overtaking Long Jianji and Tu Kun.

Niu Tongtian brought Xue Zihan to the Two-Forget Stone, where he painted her and drew Long Jingtian into a confrontation over the Green Demons. After Long Jingtian’s Winter Palace master token shattered, Niu Tongtian attacked him.

• Niu Tongtian raced with Feng Jiu to a sea-surrounded cliff, where Xue Zihan posed on the Two-Forget Stone while he painted her.
• Tu Kun prepared to leave with Xue Zihan, but Niu Tongtian announced that Long Jingtian had arrived.
• Long Jingtian appeared and ordered Xue Zihan to return with him, while Long Jianji greeted his eldest brother coldly.
• Niu Tongtian warned Long Jingtian that Green Demons had reached the East Sea and urged the four factions to unite against them.
• Long Jingtian’s star-speckled jade master token shattered, signaling that the Winter Palace World’s entrances and exits had been sealed.
• Niu Tongtian attacked Long Jingtian and drove his jade-green hand through the protective yellow light into his abdomen.

Niu Tongtian revealed that he had been infected by the Green Source Infection and summoned twelve golden-armored demons to attack Long Jingtian. Long Jingtian recognized their Hun Tian Sword Formation as the work of the Green Demon King, while Feng Jiu fled with Xu Yi and Xue Zihan and Long Jianji left the battle.

• Niu Tongtian escaped Long Jingtian's strike and declared that the Green Source Infection was the Demon Race's original power.
• Tu Kun, Long Jianji, and Feng Jiu demonstrated that they were not infected by unleashing attacks.
• Niu Tongtian shattered a jade token and summoned twelve golden-armored demons, then joined them in attacking Long Jingtian.
• Long Jingtian used the Tian Han Ling to counter their assault, but the thirteen demons unleashed Asura Death Qi and broke through his clouds.
• Long Jingtian recognized the Hun Tian Sword Formation and asked who the Green Demon King was.
• Tu Kun fled to summon help, while Feng Jiu carried Xu Yi and Xue Zihan away and Long Jianji left the battle.

Xu Yi, Xue Zihan, and Feng Jiu were pursued by Long Jianji and Tu Kun, who wanted to seize the Winter Palace Token. As Long Jianji closed in, Xu Yi took Xue Zihan hostage, leaving Feng Jiu furious and the pursuers facing an unexpected standoff.

• Xu Yi realized Xue Zihan could not leave the Demon Domain and agreed to stay with her, while Feng Jiu warned that Long Jianji and Tu Kun were approaching with reinforcements.
• Long Jianji and Tu Kun arrived with their followers, and Long Jianji persuaded Tu Kun to let him claim the Winter Palace Token in exchange for future favors.
• Long Jianji invited Xue Zihan to come with him, but Xu Yi pressed a Frost Blade to her neck and declared that he was taking her hostage to save their lives.
• Feng Jiu stopped flying and angrily challenged Xu Yi, but held back rather than expose himself or risk his life.

Xu Yi used Xue Zihan as leverage to force Long Jianji, Tu Kun, and their attendants to swear life-oaths against harming him and Feng Jiu. He then broke his own oath, letting the giant bird carry Xue Zihan away while the others were bound by their vows.

• Xu Yi threatened to cut Xue Zihan with Frost Blade unless Long Jianji and Tu Kun guaranteed his safety.
• Xu Yi demanded that Long Jianji and Tu Kun swear life-oaths, then swore an oath himself to return the Winter Palace Token.
• Long Jianji, Tu Kun, and their attendants swore the oaths Xu Yi had prepared.
• Xu Yi removed Frost Blade from Xue Zihan’s neck and admitted that he had broken his oath for the Winter Palace Token.
• The giant bird shielded Xue Zihan with its golden feathers and flew away, leaving Long Jianji and Tu Kun unable to pursue her.

Xu Yi broke the pursuers’ standoff by attacking two demons who had secretly violated his life oath, revealing a devastating sword technique. As the demons accused him of conspiring with the Green Demons, Xu Yi’s mastery of the Hun Tian Sword left Feng Jiu and the others stunned.

• Xu Yi told Feng Jiu to fly toward the Winter Palace World, then sat in meditation while Long Jianji and Tu Kun’s groups followed them.
• The brown-robed old man secretly urged the demons to help kill Xu Yi and seize the Winter Palace Token, and the red-robed middle-aged man agreed, breaking his oath.
• Xu Yi attacked both oathbreakers with Seven Thousand Swords, surprising Long Jianji and Tu Kun.
• The brown-robed old man scattered Xu Yi’s Sword Qi, but it split into countless intersecting strands that formed cages.
• Tu Kun recognized the Hun Tian Sword and accused Xu Yi of being a human cultivator allied with Niu Tongtian and the Green Demons.
• Feng Jiu realized Xu Yi had somehow mastered the Hun Tian Sword alone, a technique that Niu Tongtian needed thirteen demons to wield.

Xu Yi deciphered and used the Hun Tian Sword to trap Long Jianji and the other demons, then escaped with Feng Jiuru and Xue Zihan. He reunited with A Li and used the Two Hearts Know talisman to establish long-distance thought communication, learning that their connection reached at least 8,700 li.

• Xu Yi deciphered the final style of the Hun Tian Sword and used it to cage Long Jianji, Tu Kun, and the other Great Demons, though he could not injure them.
• Xu Yi unleashed further sword cages, then urged Feng Jiuru to fly west with him and the others; the demons did not pursue them.
• Xu Yi summoned A Li and introduced him to Xue Zihan, who was reminded of Qiu Wa.
• Xu Yi activated the Two Hearts Know talisman on himself and A Li, allowing them to communicate through their thoughts.
• Xu Yi sent A Li west while Feng Jiuru flew east, and used the Starry Sky Sea-Gazing Technique to measure their separation at 8,700 li before calling A Li back.

Xu Yi freed Feng Jiu from the Water Source Mark, then persuaded him to travel with the group under Xue Zihan’s authority. Using the Starry Sky Breath Locking Technique and a Boundary Barrier Pearl, Xu Yi found the concealed entrance to the Winter Palace World, where the group hid from a passing troop.

• Xu Yi had A Li remove Feng Jiu’s Water Source Mark and offered him his freedom, but Feng Jiu warned that he and Xue Zihan could be branded traitors.
• Feng Jiu urged Xue Zihan to leave Xu Yi, but she said she had her own plans and Feng Jiu agreed to carry the group again if he took orders from her.
• Xu Yi sent A Li back to the Demon Domain and directed Feng Jiu southeast and west until they entered the Winter Palace World.
• Xu Yi raised a Boundary Barrier Pearl to conceal the group, explained that he had located the hidden entrance, and Xue Zihan offered to show him the Winter Palace’s treasures.
• Xu Yi ordered Feng Jiu to fly higher when a troop swept past below, and the concealed group remained unnoticed among the clouds.

Xu Yi, Xue Zihan, and Feng Jiu discovered East Sea demons captured by Niu Tongtian’s Green Demons, then Xu Yi used the Hun Tian Sword to free them. He left the remaining fight to the rescued demons and continued toward his destination.

• Xu Yi and Xue Zihan discussed Niu Tongtian’s plan and the danger facing Long Jingtian and the East Sea Demon Race.
• Feng Jiu spotted a group of captured East Sea demons, including the Seventh Princess, being escorted by Green Demons.
• Xu Yi attacked with the Hun Tian Sword, killing the weaker Green Demons and trapping the stronger ones in a sword domain.
• Xu Yi’s Sword Qi cut the captives’ spirit ropes and freed them.
• Xu Yi told Feng Jiu to move on, leaving the rescued demons to deal with the trapped Green Demons.

Xu Yi and Xue Zihan entered Jinghuan Palace, where Xu Yi discovered that his jade token could open its gates and grant access to secret places across the seas. Xue Zihan showed him the calming seasonal worlds inside, and she quietly led him back into the Spring Scenery to prolong their time together.

• Xu Yi reassured the East Sea demons that Princess Long Qi need not fear, then examined the jade token Xue Zihan had given him.
• Xu Yi discovered that the token held sea charts, opened secret places, and served as a universal pass in the Winter Palace World.
• Xu Yi questioned Xue Zihan about Long Jingtian's intentions, but she declined to explain and said they had arrived at Jinghuan Palace.
• Xu Yi used the token to open Jinghuan Palace, and Xue Zihan explained that its four seasonal paintings were miniature worlds that calmed the mind.
• Xue Zihan left Feng Jiu in the Winter Scenery and led Xu Yi into the Spring Scenery, secretly savoring their time alone.

Xue Zihan led Xu Yi through Jinghuan Palace, where he learned about Long Jingtian’s trove and a five-vat formation that might have drained the Abyssal Chasm’s Fire Spirit Power. The chapter ended as Xue Zihan sensed Long Jingtian nearby and called for him to reveal himself.

• Xu Yi accompanied Xue Zihan through the Four Scenes Diagram, and they avoided Feng Jiu in the Winter Scene Diagram.
• Xue Zihan brought Xu Yi to Jingzhen Hall and offered him treasures, but he refused because he owed Long Jingtian and needed his help finding Qiu Wa.
• Xu Yi noticed Xue Zihan spoke of Long Jingtian without gratitude and suspected Long Jingtian had bad intentions toward her.
• Xue Zihan led Xu Yi to Jingfa Hall, where he saw five vats gathering the powers of the Five Elements.
• Xu Yi suspected the Fire Spirit Power came from the Abyssal Chasm and worried that Long Jingtian had taken it.
• Xue Zihan sensed Long Jingtian and called on him to show himself, leaving Xu Yi startled.

Xu Yi reunited with Xue Zihan in the East Sea and confronted Long Jingtian, whose possessive control over her became clear. Long Jingtian’s jealousy erupted into violence, and Xu Yi struck first in his Dragon Elephant Aspect.

• Long Jingtian arrived at Jinghuan Hall, greeted Xue Zihan, and recognized Xu Yi as her old human friend.
• Xu Yi thanked Long Jingtian for saving Xue Zihan, then inferred that Long Jingtian had altered her body against her wishes.
• Long Jingtian offered to hold a banquet, but Xue Zihan cited the Winter Palace’s turmoil as a reason to refuse.
• Xu Yi challenged Long Jingtian about dressing Xue Zihan in demonic aura, and Xue Zihan tried to send Xu Yi away to protect him.
• Long Jingtian became enraged by Xue Zihan’s concern for Xu Yi, while Xu Yi transformed into a towering ape using the Dragon Elephant Aspect.
• Xu Yi brought his massive arm crashing down on Long Jingtian before he could finish accusing Xu Yi of having hidden schemes.

Xu Yi and Long Jingtian fought fiercely in the cave abode, matching strength until Long Jingtian struck Xu Yi with the Void-Splitting Hand. Xu Yi countered with the Hun Tian Sword, and the chapter ended as Long Jingtian used balls of light to break apart the sword formation.

• Xu Yi and Long Jingtian exchanged powerful blows, while Xue Zihan watched anxiously and tried to urge Xu Yi to retreat.
• Jealous of Xue Zihan’s concern for Xu Yi, Long Jingtian unleashed the Void-Splitting Hand and struck Xu Yi’s manifested ape body in the abdomen.
• Long Jingtian pursued Xu Yi, but Xu Yi summoned the Hun Tian Sword and briefly restrained him with its sword formation.
• Long Jingtian destroyed the formation with balls of light, while Xu Yi’s fire-powered Hun Tian Sword continued to sweep through the cave abode.

Xu Yi endured Long Jingtian’s demon-core assault until Xue Zihan intervened, but Long Jingtian knocked her unconscious. Xu Yi devoured the Sabertooth Tiger corpse to restore his strength, and when the Soul-Summoning Banner appeared, Long Jingtian swallowed his demon core as Xu Yi recognized the meaning of Sentient Being of True Nature.

• Long Jingtian used his demon core to shatter Xu Yi’s sword formation and repeatedly battered his ape body, but could not break through it.
• Xue Zihan attacked Long Jingtian and offered herself in exchange for Xu Yi, then tried to take her own life; Long Jingtian destroyed her weapon and knocked her unconscious.
• Xu Yi tore apart and devoured the Sabertooth Tiger corpse, rapidly replenishing his weakened demon body and strength.
• Long Jingtian tried to seize the tiger corpse, but Xu Yi returned it to his mustard seed space and endured the demon core’s blows.
• Xu Yi summoned the Soul-Summoning Banner, and Long Jingtian swallowed his demon core as Xu Yi understood the principle of Sentient Being of True Nature.

Xu Yi shattered the jade box that empowered Long Jingtian, but discovered Qiu Wa inside and lost his chance to catch her. With both fighters’ protections gone, Long Jingtian seized the Primordial Sword Tooth and attacked, leaving Xu Yi clinging to his arm as the battle reached its decisive moment.

• Xu Yi swallowed the Primordial Sabertooth Tiger and forced Long Jingtian to reveal his wounded Dragon Candle form.
• Long Jingtian awakened the five-vat formation, which healed his wounds and strengthened his demon body as he clashed with Xu Yi.
• Xu Yi redirected his attack and shattered the emerald-green jade box, destroying the formation and crashing into the cave wall.
• Qiu Wa fell from the broken box, and Xu Yi missed catching her when Long Jingtian struck him from behind.
• Long Jingtian seized the Primordial Sword Tooth and attacked Xu Yi, who grabbed the arm holding the sword.

Xu Yi fought Long Jingtian to protect Qiu Wa, while Xue Zihan awakened and chose to scatter her spirit to stop Long Jingtian. Before vanishing, she confessed her love to Xu Yi and asked him to restore Qiu Wa, leaving Long Jingtian devastated as he realized the depth of her bond with the Ginseng Baby.

• Xu Yi attacked Long Jingtian recklessly, suffering fatal wounds while breaking his horns, slicing off two fingers, and gouging out one eye.
• Xue Zihan awakened, saw Qiu Wa's ruined state, and scattered her spirit to repay Long Jingtian for saving her while condemning him for hurting Qiu Wa.
• Xue Zihan's spirit scattering caused Long Jingtian to collapse in agony and lose the ability to move.
• Xue Zihan placed the shriveled Ginseng Baby in Xu Yi's hand, confessed that she loved him, and vanished after asking him to care for himself and restore Qiu Wa.
• Long Jingtian heard Xue Zihan's final words and grieved, recalling how he had deceived her about Qiu Wa and sacrificed everything to keep her by his side.

Long Jingtian died after Xue Zihan sacrificed herself, while Xu Yi was left near death in Jingfa Hall. A sentient memory guardian appeared before Xu Yi and revealed that it had entered the river of his memories.

• Xue Zihan dispersed her spirit, causing the demon-core essence bound to Long Jingtian to vanish and Long Jingtian to begin dying.
• Long Jingtian died without regretting giving Xue Zihan his demon-core essence or blaming her.
• Xu Yi watched Xue Zihan fade away and, too weak to use the Sheep Fat Jade Pure Bottle, waited for death.
• A sentient guardian who had taken Liao Chen's appearance appeared before Xu Yi in Jingfa Hall.
• The guardian explained that it had read Xu Yi's memories and entered their river after teaching him the Nine Revolutions Saint Creation Art.

Liao Chen restored Xu Yi after the Primordial Sword Tooth’s wounds kept reopening, then reluctantly agreed to try to save Xue Zihan. He froze her body with starry droplets, but she remained an ice-cold, lifeless sculpture.

• Liao Chen used the Sheep Fat Jade Pure Bottle and its willow twig to heal Xu Yi, replenishing the bottle’s liquid with spirit stones when the first supply ran out.
• Xu Yi recovered and thanked Liao Chen, then begged him to save Xue Zihan, insisting despite Liao Chen’s protests that she was dead and beyond his power to revive.
• Liao Chen gave in and said he would remain in Xu Yi’s river of memories, asking Xu Yi to live longer and avoid nearly dying.
• Liao Chen opened black holes, gathered more than ten starry droplets, and poured them into Xue Zihan’s head, turning her into a lifelike but lifeless ice sculpture.

Liao Chen stabilized Xu Yi’s soul and strengthened him before returning to his memories, then the story shifted to a little girl riding across a grassland and calling for her Bearded Uncle. Xu Yi remained unconscious, and the chapter left the girl’s connection to him unclear.

• Liao Chen told Xu Yi that Xue Zihan was dead beyond hope of revival, though he had gathered and sealed fragments of her soul inside her body.
• After Xu Yi fainted, Liao Chen inspected his belongings and used a formation and Fire Element to protect and strengthen his soul.
• Liao Chen placed seals into the Ice Fire Rabbit and Xu Yi, then drained the other four great vats to secure a hundred years of peace.
• A little girl fed a young Iron Beak Eagle, sent it back into the sky, and rode a fiery red foal across the grassland.
• The little girl called out to her Bearded Uncle and proudly asked whether her riding had nearly surpassed his.

The Green Robe Knight and the sickly little girl joined the Donglai Merchant Guild’s caravan while traveling south. At camp, Instructor Hu began explaining that the world’s upheaval had started twenty years earlier with the Demon Domain.

• The Green Robe Knight soothed the little girl’s coughing with medicine and sang to her as they rode across the plains.
• The Red-faced Man invited the Green Robe Knight and the girl to travel with the Donglai Merchant Guild’s caravan, and he agreed.
• The girl enjoyed playing with the caravan’s children while the Green Robe Knight listened to Instructor Hu’s campfire stories.
• When travelers asked why the world had fallen into chaos, Instructor Hu said the disaster began twenty years earlier and originated in the Demon Domain.

Instructor Hu recounted how the Green Demon’s attack on the Eastern Sea plunged the Demon Race and Northern Sacred Court into a devastating war that left the world in chaos. As the gathered travelers blamed demons for invading human lands, the little girl argued that not all demons were evil.

• Instructor Hu explained that the Green Demon killed the Eastern Sea ruler, invaded the Eastern Sea, and nearly united the Demon Race before the other seas and Northern Sacred Court intervened.
• The little girl suggested the Green Demon’s ability to infect others had limits, and Instructor Hu agreed that its power had nevertheless grown greatly after the ambush.
• Instructor Hu described how the war cost the Four Seas Demon Race half its territory and three Demon Kings, while the Northern Sacred Court’s losses helped plunge the world into disorder.
• Instructor Hu said the Sacred Race used two treasure gourds, including the Void Sky Gourd, to wound the Green Demon King, and the gathered people raised a toast to the fallen immortals.
• The Brocade Robe Youth condemned demons for invading human lands, but the little girl countered that demons, like humans, could be good or bad.

As the Green Robe Knight learned about the lawless world, the Azure Wolf Alliance ambushed the Donglai Merchant Guild and demanded its rare Twin Dragon Grass. Shopkeeper Su surrendered the treasure after the alliance’s deputy leader revealed his overwhelming strength.

• Instructor Hu explained that chaos had spread after the Saint Clan retreated and the Holy Court fell, making flight dangerous even for powerful cultivators.
• The Green Robe Knight listened to the travelers’ discussion through the night while the little girl slept in his arms.
• More than ten Azure Wolf Alliance riders arrived at the Donglai Merchant Guild’s camp, scattering the unaffiliated travelers.
• The walrus-mustached deputy leader demanded a thirty percent trade tax, then named the guild’s Twin Dragon Grass as payment.
• The deputy leader displayed Yang Venerate power, and Shopkeeper Su threw him the treasure box after asking him to keep his word.

The little girl defeated the mustached man and claimed the spirit-bearing Twin Dragon Grass, then asked the Green Robe Knight to release it rather than consume it to help her recover. The Green Robe Knight had already recaptured the grass, and the chapter ended with the girl pleading for its freedom.

• The little girl took the Twin Dragon Grass from the mustached man and calmed its two dragon-shaped heads.
• The mustached man attacked the little girl, but she shattered his flame spear formation with Sword Qi and sent him flying.
• The little girl drove the Azure Wolf Alliance riders away, and the Green Robe Knight told Shopkeeper Su's group they could leave while he stayed behind.
• The Green Robe Knight revealed that he had recaptured the Twin Dragon Grass after the little girl secretly released it.
• The little girl asked the Green Robe Knight to spare the sentient plant, comparing its life to her own and pleading with him to let it go.