Recaps

Shenque Valley’s Meng Gu tried to negotiate with Qin Guan after the sect’s devastating losses, but Qin Guan refused to spare them. He vowed to destroy Shenque Valley and avenge Nan Rou, leaving both sides ready to fight again.

• Jiang Huai and Shenque Valley’s elders argued over their losses, while Elder Liu warned that their sealed Water Dao Principles and Spatial Formation could not hold off Qin Guan and Xiao Man for long.
• Meng Gu agreed that Shenque Valley could not afford a war of attrition and led the elders to ask Qin Guan whether they could reconcile.
• Meng Gu offered to return the Water Dao Principles and Nine Great Dao Powers and pay fifty million spirit stones, but Qin Guan rejected the offer and described how Zangshen Abyss’s attempt to become his dogs had ended.
• Qin Guan reminded Meng Gu that Shenque Valley had bullied the Xuantian Sect, harmed his wife, and seized her Great Dao Opportunity, then vowed to grind Shenque Valley to dust.
• Meng Gu ended the negotiations and challenged Qin Guan to break through the Spatial Formation.

After destroying Shenque Valley, Qin Guan and his allies recovered its treasures, and Nan Rou reunited with the Water Dao Principles. They then reached Tianshu Alliance, where Di Xuan revealed that the alliance had taken Bai You's family hostage.

• Qin Guan and his allies found Shenque Valley's treasure vault and divided its treasures between their two families.
• Nan Rou reunited with the Water Dao Principles, which chose her as its master, and Qin Guan asked the Little Black Tower to guide her.
• Qin Guan and his allies traveled to Tianshu Alliance three days later, and Qin Guan attacked its protective Formation.
• Di Xuan brought Bai You's parents and other family members forward as hostages, and a Tianshu Alliance elder struck Bai Zhengyang when he spoke.

Di Xuan and Hei Jiu demanded that Qin Guan hand over the Little Black Tower and Demon Sword in exchange for the safety of the Bai Family and the Great Demons. Qin Guan refused the Little Black Tower’s plan to pressure Bai You into helping him, then lost control as Nan Rou tried to suppress him.

• Hei Jiu appeared beside Di Xuan and demanded Qin Guan’s treasure and Demon Sword, promising to spare the Bai Family and sixteen Great Demons.
• Bai You urged Qin Guan not to surrender the Little Black Tower and proposed offering the Monster Locking Gourd instead.
• Qin Guan asked the Little Black Tower to go to the enemy, but it insisted he first threaten Bai You into doing something intimate.
• Qin Guan rejected the idea as despicable, then erupted into a frenzy and attacked the ground and empty sky with his Great Sword.
• Nan Rou panicked and activated the Water Domain to suppress Qin Guan.

Qin Guan and his companions entered the Beast Abyss to trade Little Black Tower for sixteen captured Great Demons, but Hei Jiu and Di Xuan had arranged for Lord Wu to seize the treasure and kill them. Lord Wu discovered that the tower could overcome the Beast Abyss Restriction, then learned he could not escape its even stronger restriction.

• Qin Guan's group reached the Beast Abyss, where Hei Jiu and Di Xuan brought them to Lord Wu and presented sixteen bound Great Demons for the trade.
• Lord Wu stopped Xiao Man's attack, and Qin Guan handed over Little Black Tower after it told him he was no match for Lord Wu.
• Lord Wu examined Little Black Tower and discovered the Great Demons inside, realizing it could break the Beast Abyss Restriction.
• Lord Wu entered Little Black Tower and urged it to take him out of the Beast Abyss.
• Little Black Tower warned Lord Wu that its own restriction was ten thousand times stronger, and he failed to escape its space.

Little Black Tower trapped Lord Wu and drove him to despair, then Qin Guan ordered it to ambush Di Xuan and Hei Jiu while Qian Hun prepared to rescue the hostages. The tower moved in front of the unsuspecting alliance leaders, but the attack had not yet begun.

• Little Black Tower questioned Lord Wu about his womanizing, then refused to release him and sent him to the Second Floor, where immense pressure pinned him down.
• Di Xuan worried that Lord Wu had been trapped, while Hei Jiu assured him that the Tianshu Alliance and Black Luo Hall would claim Baqi Continent after defeating Qin Guan and his allies.
• Qin Guan learned that Little Black Tower had driven Lord Wu mad and told it to ambush Di Xuan and Hei Jiu so he could rescue the hostages.
• Qin Guan told Qian Hun to prepare the flying swords for the rescue as Little Black Tower suddenly flew in front of Di Xuan and Hei Jiu.

Qin Guan was claimed by the Xuantian Sect, the Blood Sword Alliance, and the Dao Sect, whose Heavenly Master Jiu Tuzhi revealed that he had destroyed the Tianshu Alliance. Jiu Tuzhi offered to give Qin Guan the sixteen strands of Great Dao Power for Nan Rou if Qin Guan returned to the Dao Sect, while Nan Rou suggested leaving them there.

• Greedy Treasure Ape and Big Gold chose to follow Qin Guan, while Bei Ming and Qian Hun each tried to recruit them and claim Qin Guan for their faction.
• Jiu Tuzhi arrived with Dao Sect elders and announced that Qin Guan was the Dao Sect Saint Son, surprising the Blood Sword Alliance elders.
• Qin Guan said he intended to destroy the Tianshu Alliance, but Jiu Tuzhi revealed that he had already defeated it, renamed its territory the Dao Sect, and destroyed the formation siphoning Yuanyang Continent's fortune.
• Qin Guan demanded the sixteen strands of Great Dao Power for Nan Rou, and Jiu Tuzhi offered them on the condition that Qin Guan return to the Dao Sect.
• Nan Rou came to Qin Guan's side and suggested that he leave the Great Dao Power in the Dao Sect.

Qin Guan distributed Dao resources, helped Bai You obtain the Space Dao Principles, and learned that Bai Zhengyang planned to return to Tianqi City to rebuild the Bai Family. The chapter ended with Bai Zhengyang and his family leaving the Beast Abyss while Bai You stayed at the Xuantian Sect to cultivate.

• Jiu Tuzhi agreed to develop the Dao Sect on the Yuanyang Continent, and Qin Guan let Bei Ming, Qian Hun, and Jiu Tuzhi divide the Great Dao Power of the West Twelve Paths.
• Yan Zhaoxue asked to cultivate in the tower, and Qin Guan sent her inside.
• Bai Zhengyang thanked Qin Guan for helping the Bai Family, but Qin Guan stopped Bai You from kowtowing and gave her the Space Dao Principles.
• Bai Zhengyang said he would return to Tianqi City to rebuild the Bai Family, and Qin Guan offered to help through the Xuantian Sect or Blood Sword Alliance if they faced trouble.
• Bai You gave her mother a Storage Bag for the family, and Bai Zhengyang led the Bai Family Members out of the Beast Abyss while Bai You stayed to cultivate.

The two Purple Robe Old Men learned that Wu Bu had escaped the Abyss Bottom and searched the Beast Abyss for him. Meanwhile, Qin Guan secured the Yuanyang Continent’s border and arranged ties between allied forces before telling Xiao Man that he considered her a friend.

• Black Scorpion told the Purple Robe Old Men that a Sword Immortal had taken the Heart of the Beast Abyss over a thousand years earlier and that a powerful middle-aged man had headed toward the Abyss Mouth with two Reincarnation Mirror cultivators.
• The Purple Robe Old Men concluded Wu Bu had broken the seal himself and flew back into the Beast Abyss to search for him.
• Qin Guan had Jiu Tuzhi establish a formation barrier at the Tianshu Alliance to keep Baqi Continent cultivators from entering the Yuanyang Continent.
• Qin Guan asked Qian Hun to build a Teleportation Array between the Blood Sword Alliance and the Xuantian Sect, then went to the Second Layer of the Sword Mound to practice flying swords with Xiao Man.
• Qin Guan reassured Xiao Man that he did not consider her a Calamity Star and declared that he had fought side by side with her.

Two purple-robed elders came to the Blood Sword Alliance seeking Wu Bu, and Qin Guan revealed the Little Black Tower to them. The elders seized it and suspected it was an Innate Supreme Treasure, while the tower began to tremble in the Crane Patterned Purple Robe Old Man’s hand.

• The two purple-robed elders intimidated the Blood Sword Alliance, and Qin Guan arrived to help the wounded Elder and face them.
• The elders demanded Wu Bu, and Qin Guan realized they meant the thick-browed man he had rescued from the Beast Abyss.
• Qin Guan brought out the Little Black Tower, but withdrew it after the tower urged him to hide it and offered to send him to watch Nan Rou, Yan Zhaoxue, and Senior Sister Bai You bathe.
• The elders threatened Qin Guan and the Blood Sword Alliance, so Qin Guan threw the Little Black Tower to them.
• The Crane Patterned Purple Robe Old Man seized the tower, and he and the Lean Faced Purple Robe Old Man suspected it was an Innate Supreme Treasure before it began to tremble.

Wu Chun Yang revealed that Wu Bu’s wife, Yan Ping, had poisoned him and that Wu Lingzhou was the son of Wu Xiaotian. Wu Bu rejected the revelations, then collapsed into grief and disbelief.

• Wu Bu mocked Wu Chun Yang and Wu Xia Ming while they were pinned beneath the tower’s crushing pressure.
• Wu Chun Yang told Wu Bu that Yan Ping, not the maid Yu Zhu, had poisoned and betrayed him.
• Wu Bu denied that Yan Ping could have harmed him.
• Wu Chun Yang revealed that Wu Lingzhou was Yan Ping and Wu Xiaotian’s son, pointing to the meaning of Wu Lingzhou’s name as proof.
• Wu Bu spat blood and protested that Yan Ping could not have betrayed him and Wu Lingzhou could not be another man’s child.

Qin Guan brought Nan Rou and the others to a pool of Spirit Liquid, but Xiao Man, Yan Zhaoxue, and Bai You carried it away in tubs to cultivate privately. Qin Guan and Nan Rou stayed behind and soaked in the pool, where they absorbed its power and expelled impurities from their bodies.

• Qin Guan led Xi Ren to the Spirit Liquid Pool, and Yan Zhaoxue, Nan Rou, Bai You, and Xiao Man were amazed by its abundance and benefits.
• Xiao Man filled a wooden tub with Spirit Liquid and left to cultivate elsewhere because she did not want to undress in front of Qin Guan.
• Yan Zhaoxue and Bai You followed Xiao Man's example, each taking away a tub of Spirit Liquid.
• Qin Guan stayed with Nan Rou, undressed with her, and entered the pool together after assuring her the others would not return soon.
• Qin Guan urged Nan Rou to activate her Water Domain as they cultivated, and after two hours the pool water changed color as their bodies expelled impurities.

After half a month of intense cultivation in the Little Black Tower, Qin Guan advanced his Sword Dao to the First-grade Sword Saint Realm, while his companions came out to get fresh air. They decided to visit a temple fair in Moyin City without disturbing Qin Guan, who was still comprehending the Sword Dao.

• Qin Guan used more than eight hundred thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones and Spirit Crystal Stones to cultivate, cleared Xue Wanzhong's flying-sword Sword Array, and reached the First-grade Sword Saint Realm.
• Bai You, Nan Rou, and Yan Zhaoxue left the Little Black Tower and learned that the Teleportation Array between the Blood Sword Alliance and Xuantian Sect would be completed the next day.
• A Blood Sword Alliance Disciple told the women about a temple fair in Moyin City, and they decided to go together.
• Xiao Man joined the women after telling them Qin Guan was still comprehending the Sword Dao, and Nan Rou promised to treat her at the fair.

After Xiao Man was abducted to the Li Jie Divine Realm, Qin Guan learned how to reach it and enlisted Wu Bu’s help. He entered a dangerous Plane Rift at the Beast Abyss Source Core, leaving the Blood Sword Alliance with protections in place as he set out to rescue her.

• Nan Rou told Qin Guan that two old men had taken Xiao Man, and the Little Black Tower said they had likely brought her to the Li Jie Divine Realm.
• Qin Guan demanded that the Wu brothers reveal how to reach the Li Jie Divine Realm, killed Wu Xia Ming, and learned there was a Plane Rift at the Beast Abyss Source Core.
• Qin Guan freed Wu Bu and recruited him to help rescue Xiao Man, promising to help him in return.
• Qin Guan told Nan Rou and Bai You to bring Little Nether to the Blood Sword Alliance and give it some Chaos Qi while he was away.
• Qin Guan reached the Beast Abyss Source Core, entered the Little Black Tower, and had it carry him through the Plane Rift toward the Li Jie Divine Realm.

Qin Guan fought the golden-robed old man, using Chaos Power to break through his Divine Power Shield and severely wound him. As the old man summoned a giant Golden Dharma Image to unleash a devastating palm, Little Black Tower warned Qin Guan to enter the tower, and Qin Guan recalled Yang Tianni’s words about his sword.

• The golden-robed old man sent Qin Guan flying with a punch and palm strike, but Qin Guan’s flying sword cut the old man’s neck.
• Qin Guan used two flying swords and five apparent bodies to slow and deceive the golden-robed old man.
• Qin Guan poured Chaos Power into his Great Sword and cleaved through the old man’s Divine Power Shield, leaving a deep wound in his back.
• The golden-robed old man recognized Qin Guan as a Chaos Body and summoned a towering Golden Dharma Image to attack him.
• Little Black Tower warned Qin Guan to enter the tower as he remembered Yang Tianni’s words about his sword.

Qin Guan rescued Xiao Man from the Ancient God Clan’s elders and learned that the clan had falsely branded her a Calamity Star to conceal its theft of her Divine Spark. The surviving elder revealed why the Young Master now wanted Xiao Man captured, leaving her enraged by the truth about her clan.

• Qin Guan threatened the two elders and demanded to know where Xiao Man’s Divine Spark was.
• Qin Guan ripped one elder’s Divine Spark out, shattered his dantian, and killed him.
• The surviving elder admitted that Xiao Man was not a Calamity Star and that the Grand Elder had fabricated the accusation to steal her Formless Seed Divine Spark for his son.
• The elder explained that the Young Master’s Divine Spark was rejecting his bloodline, so the clan sought Xiao Man’s bloodline power to help him fuse with it.
• Xiao Man trembled with rage as Wu Bu cursed the Ancient God Clan for its cruelty.

Qin Guan killed the Gold-robed Old Man and gave his Divine Sparks to Xiao Man so she could restore her power. He and Wu Bu then planned to infiltrate the Purple God Hall, where Qin Guan joined a recruitment melee to become an outer disciple.

• Qin Guan followed the Little Black Tower's advice, had Wu Bu extract the Gold-robed Old Man's Divine Spark, and gave both Divine Sparks to Xiao Man to refine.
• Wu Bu told Qin Guan that he wanted to learn whether Yan Ping had betrayed him and whether Ling Zhou was truly his son.
• After hearing that the Purple God Hall would recruit outer disciples, Wu Bu asked Qin Guan to smuggle him inside the tower, and Qin Guan agreed.
• Three days later, Qin Guan joined hundreds of applicants at the Purple God Hall's recruitment, where the Purple Robe Old Man announced that only twenty recruits would be chosen through a melee.
• Qin Guan joined the applicants on the platform, and the melee began inside a pale-purple barrier.

Wu Bu learned that Yan Ping had secretly been involved with Wu Xiaotian and that Wu Lingzhou was Wu Xiaotian’s son, then struggled to accept her betrayal. Outside Little Black Tower, Qin Guan met Wu Lingzhou and Wu Xiaotian at Lao Mountain Mine, and the chapter ended with Qin Guan confronting Wu Bu about Wu Lingzhou’s parentage.

• Wu Bu realized Wu Lingzhou was Wu Xiaotian’s son and broke down over Yan Ping’s betrayal.
• Little Black Tower challenged Wu Bu to move on, but Wu Bu admitted he still wanted to know why Yan Ping had betrayed him.
• Wu Lingzhou introduced himself as the new overseer of Lao Mountain Mine, and Wu Xiaotian asked Qin Guan his name.
• Qin Guan praised Yan Ping as the kind of wife he hoped to find, prompting an elder to accuse him of disrespect before Wu Xiaotian laughed it off.
• Qin Guan entered Little Black Tower and asked Wu Bu whether Wu Lingzhou was his son.

Qin Guan discovered a Profound Crystal Mine after Profound Crystal Fiend Spirits attacked the miners, then drove the spirits out and began plundering the crystals with Xiao Man and Wu Bu. He left the spirits guarding the cave entrance while the three continued extracting the stones.

• Qin Guan and the others found the miners dead from blades that had pierced their brows, then discovered a vein of Profound Crystal Stones deep in the mine.
• Profound Crystal Fiend Spirits emerged from an opening and killed most of the group, but Qin Guan shattered their energy blades.
• Qin Guan drew the Giant Demon Sword, frightening the spirits into retreating, then punched open the passage and entered the crystal-filled cave.
• Qin Guan summoned Xiao Man and Wu Bu from the Little Black Tower and ordered them to pry out the Profound Crystal Stones.
• Qin Guan drove the spirits outside and told them to guard the entrance while he, Xiao Man, and Wu Bu continued gathering crystals.

Qin Guan convinced Wu Lingzhou and his Elders that he had risked his life to defeat the Profound Crystal Fiend Spirits, while the mine revealed a rare Profound Crystal deposit and possibly a Xuan Crystal Spirit Vein. He earned Wu Lingzhou’s approval and planned to get his hands on the vein.

• Qin Guan asked Wu Lingzhou for several girls in exchange for working for him, and Wu Lingzhou agreed.
• An Elder discovered abundant Profound Crystal Stones in the mine and suggested there might be a Xuan Crystal Spirit Vein underground.
• Wu Lingzhou ordered the Elders to find new miners and an expert to survey the vein, keeping the discovery from his father for now.
• An Elder questioned how Qin Guan had survived the Profound Crystal Fiend Spirits, and Qin Guan claimed he had charged into their nest to protect Wu Lingzhou.
• Qin Guan revealed his Killing Gate’s Gang Qi, then said the Fiend Spirits had feared it until Wu Lingzhou and the Elders arrived.
• Wu Lingzhou praised Qin Guan and told him to stay by his side and work hard.

Qin Guan drank with Wu Dazhong outside the mine and heard about the strength of Martial Cultivators and Wu Bu’s past. Wu Bu listened from inside the tower as Wu Dazhong spoke of Lan Xiu, bringing old memories of her and Yan Ping back to him.

• Wu Lingzhou assigned the elders to treat Rou Qing’s injuries, arrange matters for the miners, and guard the Mineral Vein.
• Qin Guan and Wu Dazhong shared wine and meat, and Wu Dazhong explained that a Martial Venerate could contend with a Thirteenth Realm Qi Refiner and praised Li Yuan, a Thirteenth Realm Martial God.
• Qin Guan told Wu Dazhong he hoped to marry a Fairy like the Young Master’s Wife, and Wu Dazhong warned him that such a woman could be dangerous.
• Qin Guan asked about Wu Bu, and Wu Dazhong called him a gifted but disappointing man who let a woman lead him around and failed Lan Xiu.
• Wu Bu listened from the tower as Wu Dazhong described Lan Xiu, remembering that he had chosen Yan Ping over the woman who loved him.

Wu Lingzhou learned that a Top Grade Profound Crystal Spirit Vein lay beneath the mine and summoned Wu Dazhong. Elsewhere, the Ancient God Clan searched for Xiao Man, while Wu Xiaotian learned that Wu Bu had likely reached the Li Jie Divine Realm through a Plane Rift.

• Wu Lingzhou learned the mine contained a Top Grade Profound Crystal Spirit Vein and promised rewards to the miners.
• Qin Guan woke Wu Dazhong and told him Wu Lingzhou wanted to see him.
• The Ancient God Clan’s Grand Elder ordered more people sent to the East Realm to capture Xiao Man after their tracking briefly located her there.
• Elder Mo told Wu Xiaotian that Wu Bu had broken free from the Beast Abyss and likely entered the Li Jie Divine Realm through a Plane Rift.

Wu Bu and Xiao Man ambushed the Purple God Hall’s Cloud Ship, killing its defenders as Wu Lingzhou and Qin Guan tried to escape. Qin Guan then had Xiao Man punch him so he could frame her while urging Wu Lingzhou to run.

• Xiao Man struck the Cloud Ship, and Elder Feng recognized her as a member of the Ancient God Clan before fighting her.
• Wu Bu revealed himself to Wu Changfeng, then defeated and killed him while Wu Lingzhou fled inside the Cloud Ship with Qin Guan.
• Qin Guan sent Wu Bu to help Xiao Man, and the two killed Wu Changkong.
• Qin Guan disposed of the two corpses and asked Xiao Man to punch him so he could blame her for the attack.
• Xiao Man punched Qin Guan into the Cloud Ship, and he spat blood and told Wu Lingzhou to run while he held her off.

The Purple God Hall and the Ancient God Clan fought over the stolen Top Grade Profound Crystal Spirit Vein, leaving one Ancient God Clan elder dead and another escaped. Back at the Purple God Hall, Wu Xiaotian punished Wu Lingzhou and ordered an investigation, while he and Mo Lao suspected Wu Bu had orchestrated the conflict.

• The Black Robe Old Man killed one golden-robed Ancient God Clan elder, while the other escaped after threatening revenge on the Purple God Hall.
• Qin Guan returned to the Purple God Hall with Wu Lingzhou, pleased that the clash had deepened the rift between the two clans.
• Wu Xiaotian slapped Wu Lingzhou, confined him for a month, and barred him from meddling in the Lao Mountain Mine.
• Wu Xiaotian sent elders to reinforce Lao Mountain and investigate the girl, the White Haired Man, and who had revealed the mine's location.
• Wu Xiaotian and Mo Lao suspected Wu Bu had arranged the events and possibly defected to the Ancient God Clan, but they could not understand what he had offered them.

Qin Guan provoked Yan Ping and Wu Lingzhou, then ambushed them with Little Black Tower’s help and brought them inside the tower. Wu Bu was left facing the unconscious pair as Qin Guan slipped out of the cultivation chamber to find the kitchen.

• Yan Ping arrived at the cultivation chamber and urged Wu Lingzhou to learn from his father’s composure and prepare to inherit the Purple God Hall.
• Qin Guan suggested Wu Lingzhou find girls to calm down, angering Yan Ping, who ordered him to leave.
• Qin Guan accused Yan Ping of cheating on her husband with Wu Lingzhou’s current father, then vanished as the old matron moved to attack.
• Little Black Tower immobilized the old matron, and Qin Guan knocked out Yan Ping and Wu Lingzhou before taking all three inside the tower.
• Qin Guan told Wu Bu not to kill Yan Ping and Wu Lingzhou yet, then left the chamber after asking the guards where the kitchen was.

Wu Bu confronted Yan Ping and Wu Lingzhou, revealing that he knew the truth about their past and vowing revenge on them and the Yan Family. As Qin Guan and the others prepared to hide and cultivate, Yan Ping stopped Wu Bu by revealing she had been with Tian Ge before her betrothal to him.

• Wu Bu struck Yan Ping and pinned her and Wu Lingzhou to the ground with lightning swords, then said he knew what had happened back then.
• Yan Ping pleaded with Wu Bu, but he vowed to kill her, Wu Xiaotian, the illegitimate children, and the Yan Family.
• Little Black Tower, Qin Guan, and Wu Bu exchanged insults about Yan Ping, while Wu Lingzhou threatened them with the Purple God Hall and his grandfather.
• Qin Guan decided to lie low in the cave and cultivate with Xiao Man, and Wu Bu left Yan Ping and Wu Lingzhou alive.
• Yan Ping told Wu Bu that she had been with Tian Ge before her betrothal to him and had only married Wu Bu because her family forced her.