Recaps

The Netherworld Dog protected Nan Rou by killing the Xu and Shangguan families’ experts with its saliva, leaving the Nan Family stunned by its power. Meanwhile, Chen Guangling feared the Nan Family’s hidden backing, and Shen Huan returned to Spirit Sword Academy after an extended visit home.

• The Sabertooth Tiger King crawled toward the Netherworld Dog, which kicked it out of sight.
• The Netherworld Dog killed the Xu and Shangguan experts with its saliva, including fifth-realm expert Shangguan Feihong.
• Nan Yunqi ordered the servants to feed and accommodate the Netherworld Dog, and Nan Rou explained that Qin Guan had assigned it to protect her.
• Nan Qiao asked Nan Rou when Qin Guan would return, and Nan Rou said he had gone to Wei Kingdom.
• Chen Guangling learned that nobody sent to the Nan Family had returned and worried that a mysterious expert was protecting them.
• Shen Huan returned to Spirit Sword Academy after staying four extra days at the Shen Family to wait for the Old Ancestor.

Bai Wanjian warned Shen Huan that Qin Guan had defeated Spirit Sword Academy’s instructors, but Shen Huan remained sure his ancestor had killed Qin Guan. In the imperial capital, Jiang Lianyue learned that Qin Guan had destroyed Sang Country’s leadership and worried that her grandfather, the Old Pavilion Master, might provoke him.

• Bai Wanjian told Shen Huan that Pei Gan had died and Hong Luan had lost an arm confronting Qin Guan, but Shen Huan insisted his ancestor had already killed Qin Guan.
• Shen Huan dismissed Bai Wanjian’s concerns and left, while Bai Wanjian concluded that Shen Huan was unsuited to become dean.
• Elder Xu told Jiang Lianyue that Qin Guan had killed Sang Country’s emperor, Grand Preceptor, and dozens of generals, forcing the army to retreat.
• Elder Xu warned Jiang Lianyue that the Old Pavilion Master had gone to confront Qin Guan, but she believed he would avoid underhanded tactics and return after being beaten if necessary.

Jiang Fengtian reopened the Heaven Heavenly Treasure Pavilion and tried to restore customers’ confidence after the Nan Family had driven them away. He publicly promised to protect shoppers, and the city’s residents began returning to the pavilion.

• Chen Guangling reopened the Heaven Heavenly Treasure Pavilion and announced discounted prices, but customers stayed away because they feared the Nan Family would attack them.
• Jiang Fengtian refused to solicit customers himself and said he had already visited the Nan Family, where he was waiting for Qin Guan to return.
• Jiang Fengtian told Chen Guangling to arrange for people to enter the pavilion and shop so the crowd would see that business was safe.
• Jiang Fengtian appeared before the crowd, identified himself, and promised to protect the pavilion’s customers.
• Residents began praising Jiang Fengtian and preparing to shop, while Sun Qiang promised to bring the Sun Family to buy cultivation resources.

Qin Guan returned to the Nan Family with Shen Xuanjing, easing the family's worries and reuniting with Nan Rou. After they returned to their quarters, Nan Rou was surprised to discover that the Netherworld Dog could speak.

• Shen Xuanjing introduced himself as one of Qingzhou's Three Great Sword Venerables and called the Nan Family one family with him.
• Qin Guan left the hall, and Nan Rou ran into his arms after he called her name.
• Nan Qiao asked Qin Guan for help with her cultivation, and he suggested they wait until the next day.
• Shen Xuanjing followed Qin Guan and Nan Rou, so Nan Yunqi arranged a room for him.
• Qin Guan greeted the Netherworld Dog with two wisps of Chaos Qi, and the dog softened after absorbing them.
• Nan Rou asked Qin Guan why the Netherworld Dog had never spoken to her.

Jiang Fengtian traveled to meet Qin Guan, attacked him, and was swiftly defeated. After apologizing, he promised that the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion would stop using underhanded tactics, but Qin Guan refused its support for the Nan Family and had Shen Xuanjing escort him out.

• Jiang Fengtian struck Qin Guan, but Qin Guan’s body remained unharmed and left him stunned.
• Qin Guan punched Jiang Fengtian across the courtyard, caught him before he hit a house, and tossed him safely onto the ground.
• Nan Rou helped the injured Jiang Fengtian rest, while Shen Xuanjing gloated over his defeat.
• Jiang Fengtian regretted ignoring Jiang Lianyue’s warning and apologized to Qin Guan, promising the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion would support the Nan Family’s business.
• Qin Guan rejected the Pavilion’s involvement and warned Jiang Fengtian against further tricks, then ordered Shen Xuanjing to see him out.

A Dragon Cloud Empire envoy arrived at the Nan Family to recruit Qin Guan into the palace, but Qin Guan rejected the imperial summons and insulted the envoy. When two Fifth Realm guards threatened him, the Netherworld Dog offered to handle them in exchange for Chaos Qi, and Qin Guan accepted.

• Jiang Fengtian spat blood after his injuries worsened, while Shen Xuanjing rebuked him.
• Sun Daban arrived at the Nan Family with two guards and told Nan Yunqi that Emperor Suqing wanted Qin Guan to serve in the palace.
• Sun Daban warned Nan Yunqi that refusing the Imperial Edict was not an option and promised the empire’s protection for the Nan Family.
• Qin Guan arrived with Nan Rou and the Netherworld Dog, then refused to kneel and called Sun Daban a dead eunuch.
• The two Fifth Realm guards pressured Qin Guan, and the Netherworld Dog offered to deal with them for a wisp of Chaos Qi; Qin Guan accepted.

After killing the Son of Heaven Envoy, Qin Guan’s actions threatened to draw Qingzhou and Central Province into conflict, leaving Shen Xuanjing to weigh the Shen Family’s allegiance. Back at their lodgings, Qin Guan examined Nan Qiao’s difficulty with the Ice Spirit Art and identified where her Spiritual Power was being disrupted.

• Jiang Fengtian warned Shen Xuanjing that a storm was coming after Qin Guan killed the Son of Heaven Envoy, then flew away.
• Shen Xuanjing considered whether the Shen Family should side with Qin Guan or the Dragon Cloud Empire, knowing either choice would create a dangerous enemy.
• Nan Rou asked Qin Guan to help Nan Qiao with her cultivation, while Qin Guan remained distracted by his losses to Nan Rou in chess.
• Nan Qiao explained that resistance disrupted her Spiritual Power while she cultivated the fifth level of the Ice Spirit Art.
• Qin Guan traced the disruption to Nan Qiao’s Spiritual Power deviating at the Zhongfu Acupoint and Tianshi Acupoint, and Little Black Tower advised clearing the path and guiding its flow.

Nan Rou urged Qin Guan to marry Nan Qiao because she believed she could not bear children, but Qin Guan learned her Taiyin Sacred Body could bear children after she became a Great Emperor. He encouraged her to pursue that goal, then sparred with her to improve her combat skills.

• Nan Rou asked Qin Guan to marry Nan Qiao, explaining that she believed she was unable to give him descendants.
• Qin Guan rejected the suggestion, and Little Black Tower explained that Nan Rou's Taiyin Sacred Body could bear children after its Second Awakening upon Ascending to Dao.
• Qin Guan told Nan Rou she could become a Great Emperor, and she resolved to bear him many children.
• The Netherworld Dog complained about the couple interrupting its cultivation, and Qin Guan took Nan Rou to the cultivation room.
• Qin Guan sparred with Nan Rou, who attacked with a punch, changed it into a palm strike, then used the Xuan Yuan Art to send a wind blade at him.

Jiang Lianyue persuaded Jiang Fengtian to support Qin Guan with intelligence and ordered the Jiang Family to prepare for danger. After three days of training, Qin Guan had opened his forty-eighth Acupoint and believed he could kill a Sixth Realm Sword Venerable with one strike.

• Jiang Lianyue convinced Jiang Fengtian that the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion should avoid opposing Qin Guan and help him by providing useful information.
• Jiang Fengtian sent Elder Xu to watch the Dragon Cloud Empire and secretly move the Jiang Family's young and old out of the imperial capital.
• Jiang Fengtian asked Jiang Lianyue to visit Nan Rou with gifts, and a shadow guard later delivered Jiang Lianyue a note that made her expression turn cold.
• Nan Rou resolved to cultivate hard so she could give Qin Guan an heir.
• Over three days, Qin Guan trained on the Little Black Tower's Second Floor, practiced the Huan Yuan Sword Art, and opened his forty-eighth Acupoint.
• Qin Guan left the Little Black Tower, returned to the cultivation room, noticed Nan Rou was gone, and walked out.

Qin Guan joked with Jiang Lianyue, who warned him that the Dragon Cloud Empire would retaliate for killing its Son of Heaven Envoy. After sharing a meal with Nan Rou, Qin Guan received thanks from Old Mo and two others for saving Wei Kingdom from Sang Country.

• Qin Guan interrupted Jiang Lianyue and Nan Rou, then traded teasing remarks with Jiang Lianyue.
• Jiang Lianyue warned Qin Guan that Emperor Suqing would not overlook his killing of the Son of Heaven Envoy, but Qin Guan dismissed the threat.
• Nan Rou cooked a meal, and Jiang Lianyue praised her food and suggested moving in with them.
• Nan Rou told Qin Guan that Jiang Lianyue was upset because he had beaten her grandfather and she was being forced to marry a lecherous good-for-nothing.
• Old Mo and the other two knelt before Qin Guan and thanked him for saving Wei Kingdom from Sang Country.

Emperor Suqing ordered Qingzhou’s three great powers to kill Qin Guan within ten days after learning he had killed an imperial envoy. Meanwhile, Nan Yunqi brought Qin Guan and the Netherworld Dog to Myriad Monster Valley, where the Dog demanded Chaos Qi as payment.

• Bai Wanjian dismissed the Six Gates’ appeal for help and concealed his fear of the force backing Qin Guan from a middle-aged man.
• A Shadow Guard told Emperor Suqing that Pei Gan had been killed, Hong Luan had escaped wounded, and Qin Guan’s backer seemed powerful but not beyond the Seventh Realm.
• Emperor Suqing decided to pressure the three great powers of Qingzhou to join forces against Qin Guan rather than involve Central Province.
• Emperor Suqing ordered the three great powers to deliver Qin Guan’s head within ten days and have it displayed at Xuanwu Gate.
• Nan Yunqi led Qin Guan, the Netherworld Dog, and more than ten others to Myriad Monster Valley, where the Dog demanded Chaos Qi for its help.

Qin Guan fought the Netherworld Dog and discovered that Chaos Qi mixed into his Gang Qi could break through its defenses. The Netherworld Dog trapped him in a draining cloud of Black Qi, where claw shadows closed in around him.

• Qin Guan and the Netherworld Dog clashed, and the Netherworld Dog recognized Chaos Power in Qin Guan's punch.
• The Netherworld Dog charged Qin Guan and knocked him into the gorge's Rock Wall.
• Qin Guan launched a barrage of Meteor Fists infused with Chaos Qi against the Netherworld Dog's Nether Shield.
• As the shield neared breaking, the Netherworld Dog released Black Qi, and Qin Guan escaped the mist with a burst of force.
• The Netherworld Dog appeared beside Qin Guan, engulfed him in the Black Qi, and began draining his Gang Qi as claw shadows flashed around him.

Qin Guan and the Nan Family discovered a huge Black Iron Ore deposit in Myriad Monster Valley and made plans to secure and mine it. After returning home battered from his fight with Little Nether, Qin Guan reassured Nan Rou that he was not badly hurt.

• Qin Guan and the Nan Family discovered a valuable Black Iron Ore deposit, and Qin Guan suggested asking Eight Treasures Tower for mining expertise.
• Jia Quan warned that outsiders might covet the deposit, while Qin Guan said they could deal with anyone who tried to take it.
• Qin Guan asked Little Nether to mark the area with its urine to keep Demonic Beasts away, but Little Nether split a tiny amount into fifty pees.
• Nan Yunqi sent Nan Chang and herb experts to survey the area, assigned Chen Guanxiang to guard the ore, and promised the workers payment once mining began.
• Qin Guan and Nan Yunqi returned to the Nan Family, where Nan Rou grew alarmed at Qin Guan's torn, bloodstained clothes and heard that he had sparred with Little Nether.

Shen Xuanjing returned to the Shen Family and warned the clan to prepare for the coming conflict over Qin Guan. He chose to side with Qin Guan and ordered Shen Huan to leave Spirit Sword Academy, leaving the family facing a drastic break with its rising status.

• Shen Xuanjing returned home after nearly a month away, and Shen Chongyang welcomed him anxiously.
• Shen Xuanjing ordered the Shen Family to secretly move its members to safety within three days because Central Province would soon send people after Qin Guan.
• Shen Xuanjing revealed that Qin Guan had defeated him with one punch and might be a Seventh Realm Martial Cultivator, so he had decided to stand with him.
• Shen Xuanjing dismissed the clan elders’ fears of Central Province’s strength, arguing that Qin Guan’s unseen backers might be even more powerful.
• Shen Chongyang warned that siding with Qin Guan could ruin Shen Huan’s chances of becoming Spirit Sword Academy’s headmaster, but Shen Xuanjing ordered Shen Huan to leave the academy.

Yang Hongmei and Nan Yunqi welcomed her visiting Yang Family relatives, who had come to Qingzhou Spirit Sword Academy for its new dean’s succession ceremony. As Yang Kai boasted about his cultivation and the Yang Family looked down on the Nan Family, Nan Yunqi concealed that Nan Qiao had already reached the Spirit Refining Realm and left to attend to something.

• Qiao Xiangshan left after Yang Hongmei warned Nan Yunqi not to reveal that Qin Guan had killed Yang Ao.
• Nan Yunqi and Yang Hongmei welcomed Yang Tiansong, Yang Shi, Yang Muming, Yang Kai, and the other Yang Family members to their home.
• Yang Tiansong said the family had stopped in Luyun City while attending Qingzhou Spirit Sword Academy’s new dean’s selection and succession ceremony.
• Yang Kai asked after Nan Qiao and boasted that her progress might soon surpass his, while Nan Yunqi silently noted that she had already reached the first level of the Spirit Refining Realm.
• Nan Yunqi left the sitting room, and Yang Tiansong mocked him for acting busy.

Nan Qiao reunited with her maternal Yang Family relatives, where Yang Kai tried to impress her with expensive pills and cultivation advice. She revealed that she had already reached the Spirit Refining Realm, leaving the family stunned, and Yang Kai immediately swallowed a pill and began cultivating.

• Yang Shi warmly welcomed Nan Qiao, and Yang Muming and Yang Kai praised her appearance and gifts.
• Yang Kai offered Nan Qiao five First-grade Spirit Qi Pills, while Yang Tiansong and Yang Muming used the gift to compare the Yang Family's wealth with the Nan Family's.
• Nan Qiao accepted the pills at Nan Yunqi's urging, and Yang Kai bragged about his cultivation and offered to guide her.
• Nan Qiao released her Spirit Refining Realm cultivation and told Yang Tiansong she did not need Yang Kai's guidance, shocking the gathered relatives.
• Yang Kai swallowed a pill and began cultivating on the spot, prompting Yang Shi to call for him to get up.

Nan Qiao defeated Yang Kai in one move and revealed that the Nan Family now used Profound tier techniques, humbling Yang Tiansong and Yang Muming. Meanwhile, Qin Guan returned from secluded cultivation after fighting the Netherworld Dog, and Nan Rou brought him a meal in the cultivation room.

• Yang Hongmei warned Nan Qiao not to hurt Yang Kai, but Nan Qiao froze him with Frost Blossom Cold Prison and ended their sparring bout at once.
• Nan Qiao mocked Yang Kai's weakness and told Yang Tiansong that the Nan Family's members, even its gatekeepers, cultivated Profound tier techniques and martial skills.
• Yang Hongmei and Nan Yunqi relished Yang Tiansong and Yang Muming's shocked reaction, while Yang Tiansong snorted and left.
• Nan Rou brought Qin Guan his favorite dishes after he returned from a day and night of cultivation following his battle with the Netherworld Dog.
• Nan Rou urged Qin Guan to defeat Little Nether soon, and Qin Guan reassured her that the dog would not harm them because she had a trump card.

Nan Yunqi revealed Yang Ao’s death to the Yang Family and explained how it happened, provoking Yang Tiansong and Yang Muming. Yang Hongmei accepted blame and knelt in remorse, while Qin Guan had left the cultivation chamber to follow Nan Rou and the others.

• Yang Hongmei and Nan Qiao discussed hiding Yang Ao’s death from the Yang Family while Nan Rou said Qin Guan was still cultivating.
• Qin Guan left the cultivation chamber after their conversation, and Little Black Tower urged him to follow them.
• At dinner, Yang Tiansong asked why Yang Ao had not appeared, and Nan Yunqi announced that Yang Ao had died.
• Nan Yunqi recounted the events leading to Yang Ao’s death and said Yang Ao had been responsible for his own actions.
• Yang Tiansong and Yang Muming accused Nan Yunqi of choosing Qin Guan over the Yang Family and blamed him for Yang Ao’s death.
• Yang Hongmei knelt and said her past mistreatment of Nan Rou had indirectly caused Yang Ao’s death.

Yang Muming and Yang Tiansong demanded that the Nan Family hand over Qin Guan, but Qin Guan stepped in when Yang Tiansong attacked Nan Yunqi. Yang Hongmei begged Qin Guan to spare her father, and Qin Guan left Yang Tiansong alive after throwing him into a wall.

• Yang Hongmei warned Yang Muming that Qin Guan was powerful, but Yang Tiansong dismissed the danger and demanded that Nan Yunqi surrender him.
• Yang Muming accused Nan Yunqi of making up Qin Guan's strength and threatened Nan Rou when she defended her Husband.
• Jia Quan, Nan Chang, and the others rushed to protect Nan Rou, and Nan Yunqi blocked Yang Muming's attack before Yang Tiansong overwhelmed him with Fifth Realm pressure.
• Qin Guan appeared, seized Yang Tiansong by the face, and announced that he was the live-in son-in-law Yang Tiansong had come to kill.
• Yang Hongmei knelt and begged Qin Guan to spare her father, so Qin Guan threw Yang Tiansong into a wall without killing him.

The Yang Family left the Nan Family after learning how many powerful forces the Nan Family had offended. Two days later, Shen Xuanjing returned and learned that Qin Guan was still in seclusion.

• Little Black Tower told Qin Guan that Dual Cultivation inside the tower could accelerate their progress tenfold, but Nan Rou was not yet strong enough to withstand its pressure.
• Nan Yunqi gave Yang Tiansong forty spirit stones and warned the Yang Family that the Nan Family had angered several powerful forces, including the Dragon Cloud Empire.
• Yang Hongmei and Nan Qiao refused to leave the Nan Family, but Yang Tiansong took the other Yang Family members toward the Imperial Capital.
• Yang Tiansong told Yang Shi that they needed to reach the Imperial Capital and plead with the powerful forces the Nan Family had offended.
• Shen Xuanjing returned to the Nan Family after three days of travel, and Nan Yunqi told him Qin Guan was still in seclusion.

Qin Guan returned from cultivation and learned that delays in obtaining specialized mining tools had stalled the Nan Family’s Black Iron Ore mine. Jiang Lianyue offered to introduce him to the only local smith who could make the tools, but he worked in the imperial capital, leaving Qin Guan facing a lengthy trip.

• Qin Guan asked the Little Black Tower how much of its strength the Netherworld Dog had used against him, and learned it had likely used only fifty or sixty percent.
• Qin Guan returned to his residence, where Shen Xuanjing eagerly fawned over him, and joined Nan Yunqi, Jiang Lianyue, and Nan Rou for a meal.
• Qin Guan asked Nan Yunqi about developing the Black Iron Ore mine because his cultivation was rapidly consuming his spirit stones.
• Nan Yunqi explained that Eight Treasures Tower needed Cracked Rock Spirit Axes, but the Qingzhou smith who made them would not work with the tower and bringing them from Central Province would take a month.
• Jiang Lianyue identified the smith as Man Yi and offered to introduce Qin Guan to him in the imperial capital.
• Qin Guan accepted the introduction but lamented that the round trip to the imperial capital would take seven or eight days.

Nan Qiao and Yang Hongmei asked to accompany Qin Guan to the Imperial Capital, and he agreed to take the family on Nan Yunqi’s Cloud Ship. After Jiang Lianyue warned that powerful factions would gather there for the Spirit Sword Academy dean selection, Qin Guan became even more eager to go, and the group set off at dawn.

• Nan Qiao and Yang Hongmei pleaded with Qin Guan to take them to the Imperial Capital, but Nan Yunqi warned that the journey was dangerous and initially refused.
• Qin Guan asked Nan Yunqi about the Cloud Ship and proposed that everyone travel aboard it.
• Jiang Lianyue told Qin Guan that the dean selection would draw powerful people from Central Province, including Cao Zhengchun, but Qin Guan insisted they should go.
• The next morning, Jiang Lianyue started the Cloud Ship with five spirit stones and piloted it above the clouds toward the Imperial Capital.

Qin Guan and his companions reached Imperial Capital City ahead of the Spirit Sword Academy dean selection and spent the evening exploring. When two lecherous young men harassed the women, Jiang Lianyue attacked them, killing one and leaving the other to protest their actions.

• Qin Guan, Nan Rou, Nan Qiao, Yang Hongmei, and Jiang Lianyue arrived in Imperial Capital City aboard the Cloud Ship two days later.
• Jiang Lianyue suggested that Yang Hongmei and Nan Qiao look for their family at Spirit Sword Academy the next day.
• Jiang Lianyue treated the others to food and sightseeing, and Yang Hongmei forgot about her search as they enjoyed the city.
• Two young men leered at Nan Rou and the others and made crude remarks to Qin Guan.
• Jiang Lianyue cut off one young man's arm and killed him with her saber, while his companion warned that they did not know who he was.

Qin Guan reunited with Shang Zhuang at Zuixiang Tower, revealed himself as its owner, and learned that a mysterious masked expert had been protecting the restaurant. After dining with Nan Rou, Nan Qiao, and Yang Hongmei, he left with Jiang Lianyue to meet the reclusive weaponsmith Man Yi.

• Shang Zhuang told Qin Guan that a masked Black-clothed Man had crippled two Fifth Realm Masters who came to attack Zuixiang Tower.
• Qin Guan took the group to the restaurant’s top floor and told them Zuixiang Tower had been given to him as compensation.
• Qin Guan asked Jiang Lianyue to take him to Man Yi, then left with her after the group finished dining.
• Jiang Lianyue warned Qin Guan that Man Yi forged only one weapon a month, refused to yield to her grandfather, and might kill himself if forced.

At the Imperial Capital City, members of the Zhao Family attacked Yang Hongmei and the people at her residence, leaving her gravely injured. Nan Rou called Qin Guan for help, and he rushed to respond as his killing intent filled Man Yi’s room.

• Shang Zhuang warned his men that their attackers were from the Zhao Family and that they needed to protect Yang Hongmei.
• The noblewoman’s son cut off Yang Hongmei’s leg, then used a Jade Pendant to unleash Saber Qi that severely wounded Old Ma, Old Niu, and Old Zhu.
• Nan Rou and Nan Qiao came downstairs, and Shang Zhuang urged Nan Rou to call Qin Guan for help.
• At Man Yi’s residence, Qin Guan tried to learn what the blacksmith desired, but Nan Rou’s image appeared and told him Yang Hongmei had lost a leg.
• Qin Guan asked where the attackers were and whether Nan Rou and Nan Qiao were safe.