Recaps

Daoist Priest Fuchen explained that Xiao Mo could weaken the Killing Intent inside Bai Ruxue by earning Human Race Merit, and urged him not to judge either race by its worst members. Xiao Mo gave Bai Ruxue Fuchen’s pain-relieving pill, promised to stay with her, and agreed to marry her as she fell asleep.

• Fuchen told Xiao Mo that Human Race Merit could neutralize the Dragon Slaying Sword’s Killing Intent and gave him amber that would melt as he earned enough merit.
• Fuchen urged Xiao Mo to judge people by their hearts rather than their race and warned him not to hate the Human Race over Ruxue’s suffering.
• Xiao Mo entered the wooden house and gave the waking Bai Ruxue the pill Fuchen had provided.
• As the pill made her sleepy, Bai Ruxue asked Xiao Mo to stay, live in seclusion with her and Xiao Qing, and marry her.
• Xiao Mo promised to marry Bai Ruxue after she fell asleep.

Xiao Mo left Ruxue in Fuchen and Li Sisi’s care and traveled to Demon Suppressing City to join the War between Humans and Demons. As he arrived and learned the city’s warning-bell signals, the bell rang three times, announcing that the war had begun.

• Xiao Mo entrusted Ruxue to Fuchen and Li Sisi, then set off for the Great Wall to earn merit.
• Fuchen and Li Sisi worried about Xiao Mo and Ruxue’s long separation as he departed.
• Xiao Mo reached Demon Suppressing City after two months and saw the Great Wall and the cultivators gathering for war.
• A rental attendant arranged a free courtyard for Xiao Mo and explained the city’s warning bells.
• The city bell rang three times, and the attendant told Xiao Mo that the War between Humans and Demons had begun.

He Yeye and Big Guy led Demon Suppressing City’s forces into battle against the Demon Race, while Xiao Mo fought through the enemy ranks and drew He Yeye’s attention. After surviving a clash with Yue Kan and several Nascent Soul Realm Demon Cultivators, Xiao Mo impressed He Yeye with his skill and resilience.

• He Yeye ordered the defenders to leave no Demon Race survivors, and Big Guy charged from the Great Wall into the enemy army.
• He Yeye fought Yue Kan in the air as tens of thousands of human cultivators poured through the city gates and joined the battle.
• Xiao Mo entered the battlefield and killed Demon Cultivators, earning battle merit as the fighting wore on.
• An Ink-colored Long Dragon protected Xiao Mo from a Mysterious Ice Arrow aimed at He Yeye.
• Xiao Mo beheaded a tiger demon, withstood another Demon Cultivator’s Sword Qi, and let the Ink Dragon crush that attacker.
• He Yeye watched Xiao Mo fight and called him interesting.

After the first battle against the Yao Race, Xiao Mo returned to his courtyard, where City Lord He Yeye warned him that the enemy would target him and asked what reward he wanted. Xiao Mo requested permission and a place to teach Heart Learning, and He Yeye agreed to let him begin the next morning.

• After three hours of fighting, the Yao Race army withdrew, and He Yeye ordered the Human Race forces to stop pursuing them when she spotted trap-and-kill Formations along the retreat route.
• Xiao Mo returned to his courtyard covered in blood and treated his wounds.
• He Yeye appeared in Xiao Mo’s courtyard, examined his physical strength, and asked why he fought so desperately against the Yao Race.
• He Yeye warned Xiao Mo that his performance had likely put him on the Yao Race’s Azure Cloud Ranking and made him a priority target.
• Xiao Mo asked He Yeye for a place in the city to teach Heart Learning, and she agreed to let him start the next morning.

Xiao Mo began writing down his Heart Learning and visited the site of the Grand Academy, where He Yeye had gathered children orphaned by the war to become his students. He learned that the city lord hoped the children would discover a life beyond fighting demons, while He Yeye threatened to throw him in the lake if his teaching failed to satisfy her.

• Xiao Mo struggled to write Zhi Xing He Quan and considered founding an academy to teach students and pass on his Heart Learning.
• Qin Feng took Xiao Mo to the academy site beside a lake, where he met the city lord, He Yeye, and saw the children she had gathered.
• He Yeye told Xiao Mo to begin teaching and warned that she would throw him in the lake if she was dissatisfied.
• A little girl told Xiao Mo that her father, a Confucian Scholar, had died fighting the Demon Race, leaving only her and her older sister.
• Qin Feng explained that the city lord had taken in children whose parents died beneath the Great Wall and wanted them to know life was about more than killing demons.

Xiao Mo taught the children of Demon Suppressing City while fighting the Yao Race, and his reputation grew over the years. Four thousand years later, Xu Yuerou prepared to help clear his name, but He Yeye insisted that the Great Wall’s stone stele would preserve it forever.

• Xiao Mo began teaching the children at He Yeye’s Grand Academy, introducing them to etiquette, reading, and a range of schools of thought.
• Xu Yuerou, Li Man, and Zeng Songshi stood out as diligent students, while He Yeye attended every class and protected Xiao Mo from stronger attackers.
• As the Yao Race attacked Demon Suppressing City, Xiao Mo fought on the city walls and returned to teaching when each battle ended.
• Four thousand years later, Xu Yuerou told He Yeye she planned to join Li Man, Zeng Songshi, and Shang Jiuli in clearing Xiao Mo’s name at the Confucian Academy.
• He Yeye said the Confucian Academy had no right to clear Xiao Mo’s name because it would remain carved on the Great Wall’s stone stele.

After twenty years in Demon Suppressing City, Xiao Mo had become a Jade-Pu Realm cultivator and was preparing to finish Zhi Xing He Quan in closed-door cultivation. He Yeye revealed to Xu Yuerou that a full-scale Demon Race assault was imminent, and Xiao Mo had to complete his book before the battle or risk sharing Demon Suppressing City's fate.

• Over twenty years, Xiao Mo rose to the Jade-Pu Realm, while Li Man and Zeng Songshi left to travel and Xu Yuerou stayed to assist him.
• Xiao Mo showed Xu Yuerou a painting of his wife and said he planned to enter closed-door cultivation to finish Zhi Xing He Quan.
• Xiao Mo sent Xu Yuerou to work as a clerk at the City Lord's manor before beginning his cultivation.
• He Yeye told Xu Yuerou that the Yao Race World had settled its troubles and the Demon Race would launch a full-scale assault within six months.
• He Yeye stopped Xu Yuerou from warning Xiao Mo, insisting he had to finish the book or be buried with Demon Suppressing City and her.

As Xiao Mo remained in closed-door cultivation, Demon Suppressing City prepared for a decisive battle as its cultivators and soldiers answered the city bell and gathered at the Great Wall. He Yeye faced the advancing demon horde and ordered the defenders to kill them all, while Xiao Mo’s cultivation continued unseen.

• He Yeye’s Formation shielded Xiao Mo as he devoted himself to writing and verifying his Great Dao, while the city evacuated children and ordinary folk.
• After four months, three peals of the bell summoned Demon Suppressing City’s cultivators to the Great Wall, and Qu Xuan, Shopkeeper Pang, the Boss Lady, and others set out to fight.
• Ding Chen, Butcher Wang, Shopkeeper Zhao, the Old Beggar, and the city’s soldiers joined the defenders at the Great Wall.
• The defenders filled the battlements as millions of demons and Demon Cultivators surged toward them.
• He Yeye raised her hand and ordered the defenders to kill every enemy.

The Yao Race World’s assault on the Great Wall intensified as exhausted human defenders struggled to hold the line. In a quiet courtyard, Xiao Mo continued writing and sensed that the Dao he followed was widening.

• Demon Suppressing City's Black Armored Army, White Snow Heavy Cavalry, and Myriad Laws Department fought the Yao Race forces as the demons gained strength with their beasts’ support.
• Butcher Wang, the Tea House Proprietress, Wu Daquan, and Big Guy fought through the demon ranks, while He Yeye battled Yue Kan in the sky.
• After days of slaughter, the human defenders grew exhausted, and Mozi fell onto the defensive against the Yao Race World’s number-one Sword Immortal.
• He Yeye rejected retreat and charged Yue Kan again, determined to hold the Great Wall even if she died.
• Xiao Mo wrote in a quiet courtyard, lost in the teachings of the Hundred Schools, and felt the road beneath his feet grow broader.

Xiao Mo entered the Ascension Realm as a Confucian Sage, turning the battle beneath the Great Wall and driving Yue Kan’s army back into the Demon Race World. As the survivors buried their dead, He Yeye received word that Sword Pavilion and Dragon Emperor Island had fallen, and the Demon Race army had entered Myriad Laws Under Heaven.

• He Yeye was knocked into a crater by Yue Kan, and Big Guy shielded her from his flaming swords before charging at him.
• Xiao Mo appeared as a Confucian Sage of the Ascension Realm, struck Yue Kan, and helped He Yeye force him to retreat.
• Xiao Mo empowered the human cultivators with golden armor, and they pursued the fleeing demons until Yue Kan and Lin An led the survivors back to the Demon Race World.
• Xiao Mo helped tend to the dead, while Widow Qian found Ding Chen and carried him away to bury him.
• He Yeye told Xiao Mo that Qin Feng had died, then received a message that Sword Pavilion and Dragon Emperor Island had fallen and the Demon Race army had entered Myriad Laws Under Heaven.

Xiao Mo left the Great Wall to defend Myriad Laws Under Heaven, accepting a prophecy of great calamity within seventy years and leaving gifts for Xu Yuerou. Over the decades of war, he fought on collapsing fronts while He Yeye led a counterstrike into the Yao Race World, and the human race began its own counterattack.

• Xiao Mo carved his name into the Great Wall's stele, then learned He Yeye's sister had foretold that he would face a great calamity within seventy years.
• Xiao Mo chose an Immortal Weapon and left He Yeye a book for Xu Yuerou, who watched his departure and called herself his most prized disciple.
• After returning to Myriad Laws Under Heaven, Xiao Mo was named an Attendant Sage and defended battlefronts, killing demons and suppressing three human sects that had betrayed the realm.
• Xiao Mo held Shanhai Pass alone against 500,000 Demon Race troops for three years, then killed the Ascension Realm demon Wan Xi after a seven-day battle.
• He Yeye led the Black Armored Army through Heavenly Demon City and deep into the Yao Race World, and the human race launched a counterattack in the sixtieth year of the war.

After receiving a letter about his senior brother Luo Yang’s imprisonment for helping a Rabbit Spirit escape, Xiao Mo left Shatian City and confronted him in Water Mirror City. Xiao Mo freed Luo Yang by beating up the city lord, then invited his senior brother out of the dungeon.

• Xiao Mo read Li Sisi’s letter about Ruxue’s worsening condition and decided to return to the Barren Land once he had enough Human Race Merit.
• Xiao Mo received a personal letter from Shang and left Shatian City, entrusting its affairs to a Blue Flower Sect cultivator.
• Xiao Mo visited Luo Yang in Water Mirror City’s dungeon and confirmed that Luo Yang had protected a Rabbit Spirit from execution.
• Luo Yang said he could not betray his Dao Heart by killing the Rabbit Spirit, even though he knew helping her was punishable by death.
• Xiao Mo beat up the city lord of Water Mirror City and gave Luo Yang the keys to his cell.

Xiao Mo went to welcome Jiang Rou, the Myriad Sword Sect’s new imperial preceptor, and learned that the Qin Kingdom had grown powerful enough to threaten Yan. At the Imperial Preceptor’s Residence, he turned and saw a graceful, veiled woman looking at him.

• Xiao Mo discussed his cultivation plans and upcoming marriage to Yan Ruxue before Wei Xun told him that Jiang Rou was arriving at the palace.
• Xiao Mo agreed to welcome Jiang Rou in person, despite recognizing that Yan Shan'ao had accepted the Myriad Sword Sect’s demands to curry favor with it.
• Wei Xun told Xiao Mo that the Qin Kingdom had conquered the Wei Kingdom and now threatened Yan, describing its young lord’s ruthless rise and battlefield victories.
• Xiao Mo arrived at the Imperial Preceptor’s Residence and turned toward a graceful, veiled woman standing nearby.

Xiao Mo welcomed Jiang Qingyi into the Zhou Kingdom's palace and shared steamed buns with her, while Yan Ruxue considered Jiang's conflicted feelings and investigated the Qin Kingdom's ruler. The Qin ruler's private collection of paintings revealed a repeated portrait of the same man.

• Xiao Mo invited Jiang Qingyi into her Imperial Preceptor's Residence, where she asked him to stay and eat ordinary meat buns with her.
• Yan Ruxue told Xiao Qing that Jiang Qingyi would not harm Xiao Mo because she felt conflicted about her past with him.
• Yan Ruxue asked Xiao Qing to investigate the Qin Kingdom's ruler, suspecting he might have an ancient saint body and be moving toward the Zhou Kingdom.
• The Qin Kingdom's Lord entered his painting pavilion and looked at ink paintings that all depicted the same man.

After turning down Jiang Qingyi’s sword challenge, Xiao Mo returned to the Book of a Hundred Lives, where his worsening injuries did not stop him from leading humanity toward victory in the war against the demons. Just as he prepared to return to the North Wasteland to heal Ruxue, a message revealed that Xiao Qing had led the demons in massacring two human sects.

• Jiang Qingyi offered to let Xiao Mo see her face if he defeated her in a sword fight, but he declined and left.
• Xiao Mo invited Luo Yang to join him after rescuing him from prison, then admitted his injuries were incurable and that he had only about three hundred years to live.
• A message summoned Xiao Mo and Luo Yang to the front lines, where Xiao Mo continued fighting despite his injuries.
• Xiao Mo became lord of Wind-Snow City, defeated the demons’ counterattacks, and rejected their peace offer as humanity gained the upper hand.
• After the profound ice in his amber melted, Xiao Mo prepared to return to the North Wasteland to heal Ruxue and help her ascend.
• Senior Sister Shang sent Xiao Mo a warning that Xiao Qing had led demons in slaughtering two human sects and that the human alliance planned to exterminate them.

Xiao Mo traveled to Anxiang City to meet Shang Jiuli and learn about Xiao Qing’s campaign against the sects that had once attacked the North Sea. Shang Jiuli warned that Xiao Qing might be bait intended to lure Miss Bai out, and Xiao Mo set out to find her.

• Xiao Mo arrived at Anxiang City and asked to see Shang Jiuli.
• Shang Jiuli recognized Xiao Mo’s name, left her work, and led him to a wine stall to talk privately.
• Shang Jiuli told Xiao Mo that Xiao Qing had taken two cities while protecting civilians, then destroyed the Red Lotus Sect, the Yellow Sand Sect, and the Water-Lin Sect.
• Shang Jiuli explained that Xiao Qing had begun fighting the Black Mountain Sect and that the Tianlan Sect’s ancestor was heading there to kill her.
• Shang Jiuli suspected someone was using Xiao Qing as bait to lure Miss Bai out, and Xiao Mo asked where Xiao Qing was so he could go to her.

Xiao Qing led the North Sea demons in a final assault on Black Mountain Sect, while Daoist Tianqiong revealed he had engineered the conflict to capture Bai Ruxue and extend his life. The sect’s protective array shattered, and Daoist Tianqiong set out to lure Bai Ruxue to Black Mountain Sect by threatening her little sister.

• Xiao Qing and her generals prepared to destroy Black Mountain Sect before reinforcements arrived, driven by revenge for the North Sea demons who had been slaughtered.
• Xiao Qing led hundreds of thousands of demons against Black Mountain Sect, and their assault shattered its Mountain Protecting Array.
• Daoist Tianqiong told Tong Chen that he had badly injured Red Lotus Sect’s Sect Master and others so the North Sea demons would attack them, giving Tianlan Sect a chance to seize their lands and treasures.
• Daoist Tianqiong revealed that he wanted Bai Ruxue’s dragon blood, heart, and core to extend his life by five hundred years.
• Daoist Tianqiong explained that Bai Ruxue could sense her little sister’s danger and believed she would come to Black Mountain Sect.

Xiao Qing and the North Sea demons defeated Sun Han and the Black Mountain Sect, but Daoist Tianqiong arrived with Tianlan Sect reinforcements and trapped them in a vast birdcage. In the Barren Land, Bai Ruxue woke from her drugged sleep, sensed Xiao Qing was in danger, and flew off to help her.

• Xiao Qing defeated Sun Han with her dragon breath, destroying his body and soul as the Black Mountain Sect cultivators fled.
• Daoist Tianqiong struck Xia Wu down with thunder and arrived with Tianlan Sect reinforcements, forcing Xiao Qing and the other dragons to retreat.
• Daoist Tianqiong expanded a birdcage over the Black Mountain Sect and threatened to kill the North Sea demons trapped inside.
• Bai Ruxue woke and asked Li Sisi about Xiao Qing and Xiao Mo, then realized Xiao Qing was in danger.
• Bai Ruxue transformed into a dragon and flew away despite Li Sisi's warnings that she was badly injured.

Xiao Qing fought Daoist Tianqiong at Black Mountain Sect and realized he was prolonging the battle to lure her sister into a trap. After he captured her, her sister arrived as a colossal white dragon and clashed with his Manifestation of Law.

• Xiao Qing attacked Daoist Tianqiong, who wounded her but kept fighting without delivering a killing blow.
• Xiao Qing realized Daoist Tianqiong was waiting for her sister and launched a desperate attack with her Manifestation of Law.
• Daoist Tianqiong's Manifestation of Law overwhelmed Xiao Qing, and he trapped her in a rune-covered net as she tried to end her own life.
• Daoist Tianqiong threatened Xiao Qing with his sword to force her sister to appear.
• Xiao Qing's sister arrived at Black Mountain Sect as a colossal white dragon and struck Daoist Tianqiong's sword with her claw.

Bai Ruxue rescued Xiao Qing and fought Daoist Tianqiong, but the Exquisite Pagoda trapped her as she tried to escape. Just as the pagoda was about to swallow her, a blue-robed scholar appeared and retrieved the Immortal Slayer Sword.

• Bai Ruxue shattered the cage holding Xiao Qing and ordered the North Sea Demon Race to flee, while Tianlan Sect and Black Mountain Sect surrounded the flood dragons.
• Bai Ruxue fought Daoist Tianqiong and managed to crack his Manifestation of Law before fleeing with Xiao Qing.
• Daoist Tianqiong summoned the Exquisite Pagoda, which slowed Bai Ruxue and bound her with rune chains as Xiao Qing rushed to help.
• Bai Ruxue used the Immortal Slayer Sword to strike the pagoda, but the clash sent the sword flying into a distant mountain.
• A blue-robed scholar appeared atop the split mountain, pulled the Immortal Slayer Sword free, and continued on his way.

Xiao Mo arrived in time to save Bai Ruxue from Daoist Tianqiong and accused the cultivator of plotting against the North Sea dragons for personal gain. As Xiao Mo and Bai Ruxue fought their way toward escape, he spent all his Human Race Merit to cleanse her Killing Intent, but Daoist Tianqiong noted that her damaged foundation still left her vulnerable.

• Xiao Mo stopped Daoist Tianqiong's Exquisite Pagoda, rescued Bai Ruxue, and explained that Xiao Qing had been used as bait to lure her out.
• Xiao Mo accused Daoist Tianqiong of manipulating the sects and North Sea dragons to seize their treasures, then fought him alongside Bai Ruxue.
• Xiao Mo broke the cage around Black Mountain Sect and opened escape routes so Xiao Qing and the other dragons could flee.
• Daoist Tianqiong intercepted Xiao Mo and Bai Ruxue, but Xiao Mo pierced him with an arrow from the Sun Shooting Bow while slowing time with a Confucian classic.
• As Daoist Tianqiong brought down a blazing sun, Xiao Mo transferred all his Human Race Merit to Bai Ruxue and cleansed her Killing Intent.
• Daoist Tianqiong revealed that Bai Ruxue's damaged foundation would still require half a year to recover.

Xiao Mo helped Bai Ruxue break free of Daoist Tianqiong so she could undergo her Ascension Realm tribulation, while he fought to keep her safe. As her tribulation began, Dragon Clan fortune drew powerful cultivators toward the site, and the battle at the border of the Yao Race World continued.

• Xiao Mo urged Bai Ruxue to attempt her tribulation, then shattered Daoist Tianqiong's illusory sun with the three Ink Dragons.
• Bai Ruxue transformed and flew skyward, but Daoist Tianqiong tried to stop her; Xiao Mo used his verses and Dharma Body to free her and block him.
• Xiao Mo and Daoist Tianqiong clashed with their swords as Bai Ruxue's first bolt of tribulation lightning struck.
• At the Yao Race World border, Kong Sheng and Old Cripple sensed Dragon Clan fortune gathering and resumed their battle.
• The Little White Fox watched from a concealed Formation, while Upper Three Realms cultivators raced toward the place where Bai Ruxue was undergoing her tribulation.

Bai Ruxue endured the first eight bolts of her tribulation, then faced the ninth bolt’s ancient sage manifestations as Xiao Mo fought Daoist Tianqiong. With Bai Ruxue on the verge of death, Xiao Mo offered his Sage’s heart to protect her through the tribulation.

• Bai Ruxue survived the first eight lightning bolts despite her grievous injuries, drawing strength from the sight of Xiao Mo battling Daoist Tianqiong.
• The ninth bolt summoned manifestations of ancient Human Race sages, who bound Bai Ruxue and attacked her as cultivators gathered to witness the tribulation.
• Xiao Mo rushed to Bai Ruxue and blocked a Sword Immortal manifestation’s strike with the Immortal Slayer Sword.
• Xiao Mo burned through his blood essence, drew an ink-colored heart from his chest, and declared that he would protect Bai Ruxue through her tribulation with the heart of a Sage.

Xiao Mo helped Bai Ruxue break the seal on dragon fortune, and she survived her tribulation and became a true dragon. As Xiao Mo lay dying, he revealed that he had known about her past and asked her never to look for him again.

• Xiao Mo used the heart of a sage to free Bai Ruxue and shatter the ten-thousand-year seal on dragon fortune.
• The Dragon Slaying Sword attacked Xiao Mo, but Bai Ruxue's dragon form shielded him from its strike.
• Bai Ruxue completed her transformation into a true dragon, and the dragon race's fortune was released.
• Bai Ruxue caught the falling Xiao Mo and held him as he comforted her and praised her new form.
• Xiao Mo told Bai Ruxue that he knew about the scale she had given him and asked her to live well and never come looking for him again.

Xiao Mo was erased by tribulation lightning as Bai Ruxue held him, and his death sent ripples of grief and alarm across Myriad Laws Under Heaven. He Yeye returned from conquering Mangyue Kingdom, while Shang Qi arrived at Bai Mo Peak to find a phantom dragon overhead and Ink Lake flooding the land.

• Xiao Mo told Bai Ruxue to keep walking forward, then dissolved into spiritual energy when tribulation lightning struck him.
• Shang Jiuli, Luo Yang, the divine being in the highest celestial domain, and Xu Yuerou each sensed Xiao Mo's death.
• He Yeye killed Mangyue Kingdom's ruler, ordered the city breached, and entrusted Xi Jun with the army before using her necklace to return to Myriad Laws Under Heaven.
• Shang Qi went to Bai Mo Peak and saw an illusory dragon above the summit as Ink Lake overflowed across the mountain forests.