Recaps

Chen Changan questioned the Sun Family Patriarch about the Lord of the True Realm and learned that he had saved the realm from an invasion by foreign races. After Chen Changan linked the invasion to his father’s disappearance and revealed that the Lord of the True Realm was his dad, the Sun Family Patriarch was left stunned.

• The Sun Family Patriarch condemned Chen Changan for speaking disrespectfully about the Lord of the True Realm and refused to seek his help if he continued.
• The Sun Family Patriarch explained that the Lord of the True Realm had saved the realm from powerful foreign races that invaded long ago.
• Chen Changan learned that the foreign races came from beyond the True Realm and that only one exit led to the outer realms.
• Chen Changan wondered whether his father’s disappearance and Mu Zhanying’s mission in the Saint Dragon Ruins were connected to the invasion.
• When the Sun Family Patriarch demanded to know why Chen Changan still spoke disrespectfully, Chen Changan said the Lord of the True Realm was his dad, leaving the patriarch shocked.

Chen Changan told the Sun Family Patriarch that he was the Lord of the True Realm’s son, and the patriarch believed him and became devoted to him. As they traveled to the Sun family, Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao wondered where the three dogs had gone.

• Chen Changan explained his identity to the Sun Family Patriarch, who accepted him as the Young Master and vowed to protect him.
• Mu Yunyao questioned why the Sun Family Patriarch believed Chen Changan so readily, and the patriarch said no one would want to fake such a burdensome identity.
• Chen Changan and the Sun Family Patriarch agreed to deal with the trouble facing the Sun family and find out who was targeting Chen Changan.
• The Sun Family Patriarch watched Chen Changan throughout the journey, irritating him until Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao kicked him out of the carriage.
• Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao discussed Da Huang and speculated that the three dogs might be waiting somewhere for Chen Changan.

Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao arrived at the Sun household, where the Sun Family Patriarch secretly revealed Chen Changan's identity as the son of the Lord of the True Realm to his children. After five days of preparation, the Sun household awaited King Xiao's Heir Apparent and his men.

• Chen Changan arrived at the Sun household after breaking through to the early True Extreme Realm, while Mu Yunyao had reached the peak of the True Profound Realm.
• The Sun Family Patriarch welcomed Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao as honored guests and gave them his own quarters, while keeping Chen Changan's identity secret from the household.
• The Sun Family Patriarch made his son and daughter swear an oath before telling them Chen Changan was the son of the Lord of the True Realm.
• The Sun Family Patriarch rebuked his daughter for thinking she could win Chen Changan's favor and warned both children against speaking of his identity or scheming around him.
• Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao settled in comfortably, and five days later King Xiao's Heir Apparent was due to arrive with his men.

Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao faced King Xiao's Heir Apparent and his fifty thousand troops outside the Sun Family, while Chen Changan demanded that the hidden force behind the attack reveal itself. Mu Yunyao effortlessly defeated the charging cavalry, but the person directing events remained hidden.

• The Sun Family Patriarch ordered his people to protect Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao, though the two declined the family's help.
• Chen Changan confronted King Xiao's Heir Apparent and called for the person behind him to come out.
• King Xiao's Heir Apparent ordered his cavalry to attack Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao.
• Mu Yunyao charged into the cavalry and defeated them with her strength, then returned to Chen Changan when he called her back.
• The Sun Family members marveled at Mu Yunyao's power while Chen Changan wondered why the hidden instigator had sent the troops to their deaths.

Chen Changan wiped out King Xiao's Heir Apparent's iron cavalry with a wave of sword qi, then interrogated the Heir Apparent about the mysterious men behind the attack. After learning they had stayed behind to meet with King Xiao, Chen Changan killed the Heir Apparent and wondered whether the incident was meant to lure him to King Xiao's Mansion.

• Chen Changan unleashed tens of thousands of sword qi and sent them at the charging iron cavalry, killing them all in an instant.
• The Sun Family Patriarch said he could manage only hundreds, or at most a thousand, sword qi, but Chen Changan was different.
• Chen Changan grabbed King Xiao's Heir Apparent and learned that mysterious men had persuaded him to target the Sun family and had stayed behind to meet King Xiao.
• King Xiao's Heir Apparent insisted his father would never send him to his death, but Chen Changan accused King Xiao of selling him out.
• Chen Changan snapped King Xiao's Heir Apparent's neck and wondered if the attack was meant to lure him to King Xiao's Mansion.

Mu Yunyao and Chen Changan suspected that unseen forces had arranged the events surrounding their arrival in the True Realm to draw him to King Xiao's Mansion. Chen Changan rode to Bianxiao City, where people awaited them outside the gates, leaving their intentions uncertain.

• Mu Yunyao told Chen Changan that the Sun Family's troubles and other events seemed deliberately planned to guide him, and he agreed that someone had arranged them.
• Chen Changan ordered the Sun Family Patriarch to prepare horses and said he and Mu Yunyao were leaving for King Xiao's Mansion.
• The Sun Family Patriarch warned his family not to speak of Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao to outsiders after they rode away.
• At King Xiao's Mansion, King Xiao and his companions revealed that the Heir Apparent's death was meant to lure Chen Changan there, and they prepared to receive him.
• Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao reached Bianxiao City and saw people waiting outside its gates, unsure whether they had come to welcome them or fight.

Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao entered Bianxiao City with King Xiao and met three powerful men who tested Chen Changan’s physical strength. They revealed that the trials were meant to judge whether he could inherit the position of Lord of the True Realm, leaving Chen Changan questioning his absent father and rejecting the title.

• Chen Changan confronted King Xiao outside Bianxiao City, and King Xiao said his son had died for a worthy cause and that he had made the sacrifice for Chen Changan.
• Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao followed King Xiao to his mansion, where Chen Changan sensed three powerful men waiting inside.
• The three men attacked Chen Changan together to test his physical body, and he stopped Mu Yunyao from retaliating.
• The men explained that the King Xiao’s Heir Apparent and fifty thousand cavalrymen had tested Chen Changan’s strength and cultivation, and that the mansion attack tested his body.
• The men said they would only accept a worthy heir to the Lord of the True Realm’s position, and Chen Changan wondered whether his father was absent and declared no interest in the title.

Chen Changan learned that his father's former followers intended to push him into inheriting the title of Lord of the True Realm. They revealed that the foreign races were growing stronger and the Imperial Pavilion had fractured, and Chen Changan realized their plans had already begun.

• Chen Changan refused to inherit the title and demanded to know why the three followers were trying to place him on the throne.
• The followers said Chen Changan's identity made him the only person capable of uniting his father's followers and taking charge of the True Realm.
• They explained that the foreign races had repeatedly invaded and grown stronger during the ten thousand years since Chen Changan's father disappeared.
• The followers revealed that the Imperial Pavilion had splintered and that its members were quietly plotting to spur Chen Changan's growth.
• Chen Changan accused them of arranging his future, and they confirmed he had passed their first test and could not escape their plans.

Chen Changan accepted the three men’s plan to build his strength and reputation before inheriting the title of Lord of the True Realm, but he doubted their claims and knew little about who had imprisoned him or helped his friends. He set out with Mu Yunyao for the Ming Family in Famous Sword City, where the next stage of their plan awaited.

• The three men told Chen Changan to improve his strength and reputation, insisting that only he could inherit the title of Lord of the True Realm.
• Chen Changan asked who had sent Jiang Yunfan to imprison him and who had helped his Sacred Domain friends leave the Saint Mausoleum, but the men said they did not know.
• The three men directed Chen Changan to visit the Ming Family in Famous Sword City, Sword Province, and said someone would reveal his identity at the right time.
• Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao left Bianxiao City in a carriage and waited three days before he formed a small barrier with his True Essence Power.
• Mu Yunyao asked whether they could trust the three men, and Chen Changan said he did not believe a single word.

Chen Changan told Mu Yunyao he planned to exploit the mysterious people’s arrangements while strengthening himself, though he still feared they might be using Da Huang and the others to control him. As he reached Border City on the way to Sword Province, he learned that Tianmu Dynasty troops were massing nearby, then received a visit from Marquis Zhenbian Fang Zhong.

• Chen Changan explained that some people might want his body while others might genuinely want him to inherit the True Realm, and he suspected Da Huang and the others had been taken to keep him in check.
• Chen Changan said he would take advantage of their arrangements to grow stronger, and he and Mu Yunyao stopped talking when their barrier fell.
• Chen Changan and his party reached the Yuanlong Dynasty border and rested in Border City after traveling for more than half a month.
• The coachman told Chen Changan that fifty thousand Tianmu Dynasty troops were massed thirty li away and could attack at any moment.
• Chen Changan decided to leave for Sword Province the next day, and Marquis Zhenbian Fang Zhong arrived at his door.

Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao traveled toward Jianzhou despite Marquis Zhenbian Fang Zhong’s warning that Tianmu’s army blocked the route. As Fang Zhong faced the enemy with his forces, Chen Changan’s carriage entered the battlefield, leaving both armies wondering who had arrived.

• Fang Zhong questioned Chen Changan about his connection to King Xiao, and Chen Changan said he had killed King Xiao’s son and borrowed the carriage.
• Fang Zhong warned Chen Changan that fifty thousand Tianmu soldiers blocked the road to Jianzhou and that an attack was expected, but Chen Changan said he would find his own way through.
• The next day, Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao set out as Fang Zhong led three hundred thousand Yuanlong soldiers against five hundred thousand Tianmu troops.
• Tianmu’s commander urged Fang Zhong to surrender, citing King Xiao’s absence and the dispersal of his cavalry, but Fang Zhong refused to retreat.
• Just as the Tianmu commander prepared to attack, King Xiao’s carriage approached and the Yuanlong soldiers cleared a path; Fang Zhong wondered if King Xiao had come.

Chen Changan forced the Tianmu Dynasty’s army to let his carriage pass, preventing a battle at the border. He continued toward Famous Sword City in Jianzhou, unaware that the commander was following him and suspected he was heading for the Ming Family.

• Chen Changan ordered his driver to demand that the Tianmu Dynasty’s army make way, then released Sword Qi that carved a deep trench before the commander’s forces.
• The Tianmu Dynasty’s commander let the carriage pass, withdrew his army fifty miles, and sent a thousand elite soldiers to follow it.
• Fang Zhong thanked Chen Changan from afar and led his men back to the border city after the Tianmu Dynasty withdrew.
• Chen Changan asked the driver to continue toward Famous Sword City in Jianzhou, and the driver explained that he needed to rest because the carriage no longer knew the road.
• The commander realized Chen Changan’s carriage was heading toward Jianzhou and wondered whether he intended to target the Ming Family.

Chen Changan traveled into Sword Province and reached Famous Sword City, where his powerful Sword Intent let his carriage pass the guards despite the city’s ban on non-Sword Cultivators. The chapter ended with a stranger blocking his road and challenging him to fight.

• Chen Changan continued toward the Ming Family while Tianmu Dynasty soldiers followed his carriage as far as Sword Province, then turned back.
• Chen Changan entered Sword Province and asked his coachman about the local Sword Cultivators, the Ming Family, and the Xuanwu Sect.
• Chen Changan reached Famous Sword City, where guards tried to stop his carriage because non-Sword Cultivators could not enter.
• Chen Changan’s Sword Intent made the guards’ swords tremble, and they let his carriage pass before one went to report the incident to the Ming Family.
• A stranger stopped Chen Changan’s carriage, called him by name, and challenged him to fight.

Chen Changan arrived at the Ming Family, where Ming Yunjing asked him to demonstrate his sword talent before they would hand over something his father had left behind. He agreed to show what he could do.

• Ming Shifei challenged Chen Changan on the road, but Chen Changan knocked him away with a thread of Sword Qi.
• Ming Shifei accepted the defeat and guided Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao to the Ming residence.
• Ming Yunjing and the Ming Family welcomed Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao.
• Chen Changan asked why he had been summoned, and Ming Yunjing said the family wanted to see his sword talent before giving him something his father had left behind.
• Chen Changan agreed to demonstrate his sword talent.

Chen Changan impressed the Ming Family by summoning every sword in Famous Sword City, then received a sword art created by his father. He kept its embarrassing name, Pretentious Sword Art, secret and arranged for the coachman to return safely to the Yuanlong Dynasty and receive a better job.

• Chen Changan released his Sword Intent and drew hundreds of thousands of swords from across Famous Sword City to the Ming residence.
• The Ming Family praised Chen Changan's sword talent, and he returned the swords to their owners.
• Ming Yunjing explained that someone had entrusted Chen Changan's father's sword art to the Ming Family for safekeeping.
• Chen Changan opened the wooden box, discovered the sword art was named Pretentious Sword Art, and chose not to show it to the Ming Family.
• Chen Changan asked Ming Yunjing to escort the coachman toward the Yuanlong Dynasty and told him to ask King Xiao for a job that could support his family.

Chen Changan studied his father’s flashy Pretentious Sword Art while the Ming Family debated how to win his favor. Ming Yunjing decided to offer herself to Chen Changan, but the Ming Family Head warned her that her appearance made her seem far older than him.

• Chen Changan examined the Pretentious Sword Art and discussed its showy but powerful moves with Mu Yunyao.
• Mu Yunyao explained that Chen Changan’s father may have created a sword art that was both dazzling and practical because he had confidence in his abilities.
• The Ming Family debated whether Chen Changan’s arrival was an opportunity to build ties with him or a danger to their family.
• Ming Yunjing dismissed the family’s hesitation and said she would personally win Chen Changan’s favor because the Ming Family had nothing else to offer.
• Ming Yunjing declared that becoming Chen Changan’s woman would be her good fortune, while the Ming Family objected.
• The Ming Family Head told Ming Yunjing that, given her current appearance, she looked old enough to be Chen Changan’s grandmother.

Chen Changan visited the Ming Family, where Ming Yunjing asked him to guide their young swordsmen. He identified Ming Zhi as a hidden swordsmanship prodigy and began passing Sword Intent to her.

• Ming Yunjing and the Ming Family members talked her out of trying to win Chen Changan's affection.
• Ming Yunjing hosted Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao with demon beast meat, then asked Chen Changan to guide the family's young talents.
• Chen Changan dismissed the candidates Ming Yunjing presented and said a seven- or eight-year-old girl in the family had exceptional swordsmanship talent.
• The Ming Family brought eight girls of a similar age, and Chen Changan chose Ming Zhi despite the family's test having found no talent in her.
• Chen Changan called the timid Ming Zhi forward and sent a strand of Sword Intent into the space between her brows.

Chen Changan discovered that Ming Zhi was born with Sword Intent and took her as his disciple, suspecting her familiar Sword Intent might be connected to his father. After seeing her extraordinary talent in swordsmanship and cultivation, he reached the True Martial Realm with her in half a day and decided to ask the Ming Family about its next plans.

• Ming Zhi's Sword Intent emerged, and Chen Changan explained that she had been born with it despite the Ming Family's tests failing to recognize her talent.
• Chen Changan accepted Ming Zhi as his disciple and brought her to his residence to train.
• Chen Changan told Mu Yunyao that Ming Zhi's Sword Intent felt familiar, and they wondered whether his father had arranged her appearance.
• Ming Zhi mastered several kinds of Sword Intent in three days, astonishing Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao with her talent.
• Chen Changan taught Ming Zhi the Awesome Cultivation Technique, and she memorized it, began cultivating, and reached the True Martial Realm after half a day.
• Chen Changan decided to ask the Ming Family what it planned to do next.

Chen Changan learned that he had to go to the Qingming Sect to reclaim something belonging to his father, despite the sect’s powerful ancestor. After discussing the uncertain fate of the Imperial Pavilion, he prepared to leave with supplies from the Ming Family and a new horse.

• Ming Yunjing promised that the Ming Family would support Ming Zhi and help her develop her talent.
• Ming Yunjing told Chen Changan that the Qingming Sect held something belonging to his father and that he would have to take it by force.
• Chen Changan asked whether anyone knew who had left the Imperial Pavilion to found other forces, but Ming Yunjing was shocked to hear that the Pavilion had fallen apart.
• Chen Changan warned Ming Yunjing not to spread the rumor and asked what the Qingming Sect held, but she did not know.
• Ming Yunjing prepared beast meat, True Essence Stones, and a carriage pulled by a Night Horse for Chen Changan’s departure.

After leaving the Ming Family for Qingming Sect, Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao spent two months cultivating but found their progress too slow. Chen Changan decided to seek cultivation resources by robbing powerful, wicked forces, leaving them to look for a suitable target.

• Ming Yunjing explained the Night Horse’s abilities and sent Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao toward Qingming Sect in a prepared carriage.
• Ming Yunjing urged the Ming Family to grow stronger so it could support Chen Changan, and encouraged Ming Zhi to work hard for her master.
• During the journey, Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao cultivated, but their progress remained slow due to their limited True Essence Stones.
• After reaching the late stage of the True Extreme Realm, Chen Changan stopped cultivating and proposed finding more resources before reaching Qingming Sect.
• Chen Changan suggested robbing powerful forces that were worse than him, while Mu Yunyao doubted his claim to moral standards.

Chen Changan stopped a group of would-be horse thieves and learned their leader was the unvalued third son of Jufeng City's lord. After beating them into submission, he left the Third Brother eager to buy him a drink and offer compensation.

• Chen Changan stepped from his carriage when a group of riders stopped him and demanded his Night Horse.
• Chen Changan released his aura, knocked the riders and their horses down, and slapped the young man who led them.
• The young man revealed he was the third son of Jufeng City's lord and admitted he mostly swaggered around stealing things without harming anyone.
• Chen Changan teased the Third Brother about being unvalued, and the Third Brother agreed he should simply enjoy life rather than try to impress his family.
• The Third Brother invited Chen Changan for a drink and offered to fetch him valuable compensation.

Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao explored Jufeng City and suspected its wealthy, strangely subdued residents were merely acting out ordinary city life. Third Young Master Gu brought them to the Best Restaurant, where they learned that everyone had to stay indoors after nightfall.

• Third Young Master Gu told Chen Changan that Jufeng City belonged to the Gu Family and offered to cover their expenses.
• Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao noticed that the residents behaved unnaturally and questioned how the city’s people could all be wealthy despite few outsiders visiting.
• Third Young Master Gu took Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao to the Best Restaurant, where the waiter briefly eyed the newcomers warily before serving them.
• Third Young Master Gu explained that Jufeng City banned people from the streets after nightfall and required every shop to close.

Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao learned that Jufeng City forbade people from going out after nightfall, despite the city’s seemingly peaceful appearance. After the Gu brothers warned them about the danger, Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao chose to investigate the city’s hidden secret that night.

• Chen Changan asked Third Young Master Gu why people were forbidden from going out after dark, and Gu said ghosts and spirits appeared in Jufeng City.
• Eldest Young Master Gu entered, apologized for his younger brother’s behavior, and warned Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao to stay indoors after nightfall.
• After Eldest Young Master Gu left, Chen Changan noticed watchers around the restaurant and concluded that Jufeng City was hiding something.
• Third Young Master Gu hurried home as evening approached, while Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao decided to investigate after dark.
• Chen Changan sensed the city growing silent and waited with Mu Yunyao for something to happen.

Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao followed the city’s controlled residents to a hidden, identical Jufeng City beneath a pool, where the residents gathered to worship at the City Lord’s Mansion. Inside its central hall, they encountered a powerful, strange being that was not human.

• Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao discovered that thousands of Jufeng City residents were wandering at night under apparent control, while the Gu Family’s watchers remained unaffected.
• They followed the residents out of the city and watched them jump from a cliff into a deep pool, then dived in after them.
• A powerful suction pulled Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao through a barrier at the pool’s bottom into a second city identical to Jufeng City.
• They found the residents gathered and kneeling at the City Lord’s Mansion, apparently worshipping someone who had brought them there.
• Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao entered the mansion’s central hall, where a powerful voice welcomed them and they discovered its owner was not human.

Chen Changan discovered that the being in the Gu Family’s mansion was an alien secretly feeding on people to transform into a human. After defeating it, he questioned its motives and learned it claimed to be a survivor seeking a peaceful life, but Chen Changan pressed it about the Gu Family’s involvement.

• Hongchen identified the faceless being as an alien using a secret technique to disguise itself as human.
• Chen Changan confronted the alien about feeding on people’s vital essence, and it attacked him after he exposed its identity.
• Chen Changan struck the alien head-on to shield the ordinary people, while Mu Yunyao led them out of the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Frightened by Chen Changan’s strength, the alien asked to talk and claimed it wanted to become human so it could live peacefully in the True Realm.
• The alien said it had survived the past invasion and devised its transformation method by feeding on ordinary people, then Chen Changan asked why the Gu Family was helping it.