Recaps

Xiang Yuan learned of Guan Yan’s past and the underground city’s formation before undergoing genetic enhancement, where he achieved a perfect Origin Awakening level like the City Lord. The City Lord ordered him brought in secretly, leaving Xiang Yuan’s new power and the formation’s relic tied to the city’s growing intrigue.

• Zhou Zhong told Xiang Yuan how Guan Yan’s family was blamed for the formation’s explosion twenty years earlier, leaving her injured and devoted to repairing it, and described her feud with Guan Ling.
• Xiang Yuan used hypnosis to ask Guan Yan about the formation and learned that a relic inherited by the Guan Clan lay at its central formation eye.
• Guan Yan brought Xiang Yuan to the central district for genetic enhancement, where he recognized the red energy as incomplete demonic qi and suspected it came from a buried great demon.
• Xiang Yuan’s enhancement left him physically unchanged but registered him as a perfect Origin Awakening case like the City Lord, prompting the researchers to alert the City Lord.
• The City Lord reacted with disbelief and ordered Xiang Yuan brought to him through a secret passage without anyone else knowing.

Guan Yan fled the laboratory with Xiang Yuan, but Pei Jin captured them and brought them to the City Lord’s manor, where Guan Ling confronted her cousin. Xiang Yuan insulted Guan Ling, leaving the confrontation poised to escalate.

• Guan Yan rescued Xiang Yuan from the laboratory and led him through the Central District’s sewers, explaining that the City Lord would target him for his perfect Origin Awakening.
• City guards ambushed Guan Yan and Xiang Yuan in the sewers, but Guan Yan defeated two vice-captains before escaping with Xiang Yuan.
• Pei Jin caught up with them, tore off Guan Yan’s mechanical arm, and used energy-absorbing bracelets to suppress both her and Xiang Yuan.
• Pei Jin escorted Guan Yan and Xiang Yuan through a secret passage to the City Lord’s manor and confined them in an office.
• Guan Ling entered the office, mocked Guan Yan’s appearance, and removed her eye patch; Xiang Yuan called her ugly and said she looked like a ghost.

Xiang Yuan survived Wang Genji’s execution attempt and revealed overwhelming power, killing the City Lord, Guan Ling, and Pei Jin. He left Guan Yan alive and flew toward the forces gathered outside the residence, asking whether they deserved to die before unleashing another attack.

• Guan Ling mocked Guan Yan and tried to force her into marrying Xiang Yuan, but Xiang Yuan refused and traded insults with her and Wang Genji.
• Wang Genji questioned Xiang Yuan about passing the enhancement procedure, then shot him and prepared to kill Guan Yan.
• Xiang Yuan survived the bullet, destroyed his energy-suppressing handcuffs, shattered Pei Jin’s energy sword, and killed Pei Jin and Guan Ling.
• Xiang Yuan killed Wang Genji, helped Guan Yan recover her eyepatch, and told her he was Li Xianyuan from the East Eighth District.
• Xiang Yuan asked Guan Yan whether the city guards and noble fighters outside deserved to die, then leaped into the air and unleashed a crimson blast.

Xiang Yuan defeated Wang Genji and uncovered the truth behind the underground city's formation, then discovered that the black sword sheath held a ruined Crimson Universe and could pass its entrance to a sword. The sheath transferred that power to the Rouge Sword, leaving Xiang Yuan with a newly empowered weapon.

• Xiang Yuan blasted the City Lord's Manor guards, gave Guan Yan a mechanical arm, and repeatedly killed Wang Genji as he revived.
• Wang Genji fled underground, drew energy from a black jade coffin, mutated, and challenged Xiang Yuan, who vaporized him completely.
• Xiang Yuan found a relic bead and black sword sheath in the coffin, claimed the relic bead, and told Guan Yan that her family had helped fabricate the grand formation's history.
• Guan Yan broke down over the revelation, and Xiang Yuan reassured her that they could still change the world's future.
• Xiang Yuan demonized himself and learned that the dying sword sheath needed to transfer its Crimson Universe entrance to a blade; after rejecting his other swords, it accepted the Rouge Sword.

Xiang Yuan obtained Jingyun’s jade belt and used it to bring the Wasteland Realm under the Heavenly God Realm’s laws, beginning the realm’s spiritual revival. He restored Guan Yan’s body and helped the underground city reach the surface, then set out to borrow Guanyin Bodhisattva’s purification vase to heal the land further.

• Xiang Yuan returned to the Heavenly God Realm and was punished by Jingyun for the thoughts she saw in his mind before he persuaded her to lend him her jade belt.
• Xiang Yuan used Jingyun’s jade belt to make the Wasteland Realm’s laws of heaven and earth submit, clearing the clouds and allowing sunlight to reach the realm for the first time in three hundred years.
• Xiang Yuan used his divine power to restore Guan Yan’s body, remove the red energy within her, and give her an innate-stage physique; she saw her renewed appearance and wept with relief.
• Xiang Yuan opened an ascension passage and established the Heavenly God Realm’s laws in the Wasteland Realm, allowing spiritual energy to revive and its natives to cultivate without blood-red crystals.
• Xiang Yuan lifted the underground city’s four civilian districts to the surface, then used the True Martial Black Eagle Banner to clear demonic energy and dust from the air.
• Xiang Yuan decided to find Guanyin Bodhisattva and borrow her purification vase to improve the Wasteland Realm further.

Xiang Yuan restored the Wasteland Realm with the Willow Branch Purifying Vase, appointed Guan Yan as Marshal Guan, and then answered Chan’er’s urgent summons. He arrived as Jinse attacked Chan’er and, after Jinse tried to claim him and destroy Chan’er’s token of love, stabbed her with the Storm Mist Blade.

• Xiang Yuan borrowed the Willow Branch Purifying Vase from Lay Practitioner Bai Yue and used its sweet dew to cleanse and revive the Wasteland Realm.
• Xiang Yuan granted Guan Yan cultivation methods and the divine office of Marshal Guan, ordering her to settle her mortal affairs before ascending to serve under him.
• Jinse cornered Chan’er, searched her memories, discovered Jambu Gate and Xiang Yuan, and forced Chan’er to summon him.
• Xiang Yuan emerged from Jambu Gate and attacked Jinse, but she restrained him and taunted Chan’er by claiming she would take him as her husband.
• Jinse tore open Xiang Yuan’s robe and bit the tooth mark Chan’er had left, prompting Xiang Yuan to break free and stab Jinse through the chest and abdomen with the Storm Mist Blade.

Xiang Yuan and Chan'er fought Jinse inside her minor heaven, where Xiang Yuan broke through to Spirit Transformation and unleashed his demonic power. After Jinse sealed them beneath three mountains, Xiang Yuan transformed into a three-headed, six-armed figure and began lifting them, setting up another battle.

• Xiang Yuan shattered Jinse's illusions and freed Chan'er from her spatial imprisonment, then learned that Jinse was the Yellow Springs Holy Maiden at the Nether Communion stage.
• Chan'er brought Xiang Yuan into Jinse's minor heaven, where Jinse attacked them with water-mist incarnations and tried to capture Xiang Yuan as medicine.
• Xiang Yuan reached Spirit Transformation, consumed his Heavenly Devil Relics, and used his demonic power to strike Jinse, but she continued to outmaneuver him.
• Jinse suppressed Xiang Yuan and Chan'er, broke Chan'er's Yellow Springs technique with her Ancient Mirror of Reincarnation, and sealed them beneath three mountains.
• Xiang Yuan transformed into a three-headed, six-armed figure and began lifting the mountains while Chan'er stood behind him.

Xiang Yuan used his perfected three-headed, six-armed form to overpower Jinse inside her sealed small grotto-heaven, then helped Chan'er kill her. Afterward, Xiang Yuan suddenly collapsed unconscious, leaving Chan'er frightened that he might die.

• Xiang Yuan broke Jinse's spatial confinement and countered her Ancient Mirror of Reincarnation with Glimmer, Flowing Shadow, the black sword sheath, and the Rouge Sword.
• Jinse summoned her five reincarnation bodies and the Yellow Springs Mother Tree, but Chan'er used silver moon chains to drive the tree's phantom away while Xiang Yuan battered Jinse and her forms.
• Xiang Yuan repeatedly wounded Jinse and trapped her inside the Crimson Universe, while Jinse's attempts to escape and bewitch him failed.
• Xiang Yuan brought Jinse before Chan'er and told her to overcome her fear; Chan'er struck Jinse, then used the Yellow Springs Mother Tree to pull out and consume her Primordial Spirit.
• Xiang Yuan dispersed his three-headed, six-armed form and collapsed from exhaustion, and Chan'er caught him and tearfully begged him not to die.

After defeating Jinse, Xiang Yuan recovered in the Little Grotto-Heaven and grew closer to Chan'er while she claimed Jinse's treasures and explained her mysterious powers. The couple remained in their secluded paradise as Right Envoy of the Yellow Springs, Zuo Lengxie, appeared outside.

• Xiang Yuan woke beside Chan'er, secretly healed himself, and pretended to remain badly injured so she would care for him.
• Chan'er told Xiang Yuan that Jinse's Primordial Spirit had been destroyed and that her six bodies, Ancient Mirror of Reincarnation, and hidden treasures remained; the two spent the next half month together.
• Chan'er used the Ancient Mirror of Reincarnation to control Jinse's six bodies, then explained that Jinse had used her as a reincarnated vessel and that Chan'er did not know why the Silver Moon Palace had fallen.
• Chan'er demonstrated that she could borrow a future version of herself from two or three years ahead, and Xiang Yuan asked her to use the ability.
• Xiang Yuan refined the blood pool's medicinal power while Chan'er stayed in his arms, and Right Envoy of the Yellow Springs, Zuo Lengxie, appeared outside the Little Grotto-Heaven.

Xiang Yuan and Chan'er reviewed the spoils from Jinse's defeat and prepared to leave their hidden grotto-heaven, while Xiang Yuan worried about revealing his betrothal to Xiao Lingyue. Outside, they encountered Zuo Lengxie, who said the Dao Master had summoned Chan'er and Xiang Yuan back to the Yellow Springs Dao.

• Xiang Yuan assessed his gains from killing Jinse, while Chan'er lounged in his arms and neglected cultivation.
• Xiang Yuan told Chan'er that he and Xiao Lingyue had been betrothed, and Chan'er reacted with jealousy before eventually setting the matter aside.
• After more than ten days in the grotto-heaven, Xiang Yuan and Chan'er prepared to leave and face Xiao Lingyue.
• Xiang Yuan and Chan'er found Zuo Lengxie waiting outside the grotto-heaven and prepared for a possible fight.
• Zuo Lengxie said the Dao Master had sent him to welcome Chan'er back and ordered Xiang Yuan to return with them to the sect.

Xiang Yuan and Chan'er met the Dao Lord of Yellow Springs Dao, who recognized their identities and appointed them to high positions in the sect. The pair then reached the Saintess's Hall, where Chan'er reunited with Baoqin and Xiang Yuan offered to discipline her.

• Zuo Lengxie led Xiang Yuan and Chan'er through the hidden headquarters of Yellow Springs Dao to the Dao Master's forbidden grounds.
• The Dao Lord declared that Chan'er was Yellow Springs Dao's true Holy Maiden and taught her the original Reincarnation Rebirth Scripture.
• The Dao Lord identified Xiang Yuan as Heartless Daoist's disciple and appointed him Left Envoy under the name Xiang Wentian.
• Xiang Yuan and Chan'er speculated that Jinse had been prepared as a vessel for Chan'er and that the Dao Lord's plans might have involved Spiritual Light.
• At the Saintess's Hall, Chan'er encountered Baoqin, who recognized Xiang Yuan as the man from Fengxian County.
• Xiang Yuan asked Chan'er to let him discipline Baoqin, and Chan'er agreed to a small punishment.

Xiang Yuan and Chan'er discussed the Dao Master's role in Jinse's downfall and Chan'er's Saintess identity before Xiang Yuan left Yellow Springs Dao to meet Xiao Lingyue. He began explaining Chan'er's past to Xiao Lingyue, but had only reached the story of her upbringing when the chapter ended.

• Chan'er questioned Xiang Yuan about whether the Dao Master had arranged for Jinse and her to be caught, and Xiang Yuan reasoned that the Dao Master had likely foreseen and encouraged events rather than planned every detail.
• Chan'er proposed removing Zuo Lengxie so she and Xiang Yuan could control Yellow Springs Dao, but Xiang Yuan refused to take charge of the sect.
• Chan'er tried to make Baoqin help Xiang Yuan change clothes, then grew jealous when he took Baoqin's hand and sent her out of the room.
• After a month in Yellow Springs Dao, Xiang Yuan practiced spatial transference, returned to Fengxian County, and contacted Xiao Lingyue before Chan'er could reach her.
• Xiao Lingyue arrived, and Xiang Yuan told her that he had found Chan'er and brought her back; he then began explaining Chan'er's history, including her connection to Silver Moon Palace and Jinse.

Xiang Yuan recounted how he rescued Chan'er from Jinse, then revealed that Chan'er had claimed him while he was badly injured, enraging Xiao Lingyue. When Xiao Lingyue and Chan'er began fighting in the Heavenly Demon Realm, Xiang Yuan invoked his power as the True Warrior Great Emperor and left them facing an overwhelming divine apparition.

• Xiang Yuan told Xiao Lingyue that Jinse had tormented Chan'er, captured him, and was eventually killed by Chan'er beneath the Yellow Springs Mother Tree.
• Xiang Yuan claimed that Chan'er had called him husband and taken him while his injuries left him unable to resist, prompting Xiao Lingyue to accuse him of betraying their engagement.
• Chan'er arrived through the Jambu Gate, and she and Xiao Lingyue traded accusations before agreeing to settle their rivalry in another world.
• Xiao Lingyue and Chan'er fought with their sun-and-moon arts in the Heavenly Demon Realm while Xiang Yuan watched and realized their powers were largely counterbalancing each other.
• Xiang Yuan revealed himself as the True Warrior Great Emperor, summoned a divine phantom, and subdued both women beneath its power.
• Xiang Yuan charged the Great Emperor phantom and told Xiao Lingyue and Chan'er to flee without coming back for him.

Xiang Yuan and his wives escaped the Great Emperor's phantom, who cursed him with a love poison that only Xiao Lingyue and Chan'er together could ease. Back in the Unborn Realm, Xiang Yuan used the poison's recurring flare-ups to keep both women caring for him, while their rivalry continued.

• The Great Emperor's phantom shattered Xiang Yuan's Three-Headed Six-Armed Dharma Form, then spared him because it resembled an old friend's inheritance but held Xiao Lingyue and Chan'er responsible for disrupting the Heavenly Demon Realm's laws.
• The Great Emperor's phantom discovered that Xiao Lingyue and Chan'er were disciples of 'her,' returned Jambu Gate to Xiang Yuan, and planted a love poison that flared every three months and required both women's true love to ease it.
• Xiang Yuan passed out and woke in the Unborn Realm, where Xiao Lingyue and Chan'er agreed to alternate one shichen of caring for him and continued blaming each other.
• When the poison flared, Xiao Lingyue kissed Xiang Yuan, but he claimed both women were needed, so Chan'er joined them and Xiang Yuan kissed each woman to complete the treatment.
• Ten days later, Xiang Yuan remained injured and continued using the poison's symptoms to draw equal attention from Xiao Lingyue and Chan'er, while the women remained jealous of each other.

After learning that Sun Wukong had been named the Great Sage Equal to Heaven and invited to the Peach Banquet, Xiang Yuan decided to go to Heaven and watch the coming upheaval. The chapter left him heading to find Guanyin Bodhisattva while Baize and Guan Yan continued to misunderstand his office rules.

• Xiao Lingyue and Chan'er returned to their respective cultivation, leaving Xiang Yuan to consider where to seek more fights and improve his strength.
• Xiang Yuan discovered that Guan Yan had become an intern secretary at Black Tortoise Firstborn Manor and told her that her divine-power uniform made her effectively unclothed to him.
• Baize brought Xiang Yuan a report about Sun Wukong's rise to the title of Great Sage Equal to Heaven, and Guan Yan and Baize both ended up sitting on the desk amid a series of misunderstandings.
• Baize told Xiang Yuan that the Heavenly Court had opened its treasure pavilion and invited him to a Peach Banquet three days later.
• Xiang Yuan connected Sun Wukong's origins to a tale about Yu the Great's flood-taming divine iron, then left to find Guanyin Bodhisattva so he could witness the coming events.

Xiang Yuan attended the Peach Banquet amid Sun Wukong’s havoc in Heaven, learned that the Heavenly Emperor had angered Jingyun by proposing marriage, and watched the monkey’s battle with Erlang. The chapter left Xiang Yuan determined to learn Heavenly Law and Earthly Manifestation while he returned to the Purple Bamboo Grove with Bai Yue.

• Xiang Yuan teased Layman Bai Yue and Ji Muqing at the Purple Bamboo Grove, then discovered he needed to attend the Peach Banquet to investigate the Queen Mother and other hidden figures.
• Xiang Yuan visited Jingyun, learned that the Heavenly Emperor had asked her to become Queen Mother, and loudly condemned the proposal before she sent him flying into his old pit.
• Sun Wukong stole peaches, imperial wine, and Nine-Revolution Golden Elixirs, while rumors about the Seven Fairies spread among the immortals gathered at the Jade Pool.
• Xiang Yuan and Bai Yue went to Clear Insight Hall, where he saw the Heavenly Emperor, Queen Mother, and Supreme Elder Lord; the Supreme Elder Lord used a ring to subdue Sun Wukong after the Heavenly Court’s army failed.
• Xiang Yuan returned with Bai Yue to the Purple Bamboo Grove and watched Sun Wukong fight Erlang, memorizing Heavenly Law and Earthly Manifestation as his next cultivation goal.

Xiang Yuan left the Heavenly God Realm, gained new insights from Ji Wuzhou’s paintings, and traveled to Yellow Springs Dao headquarters to meet Chan’er. He found her interrogating a bound woman and recognized the captive as Sima Qingyan, prompting him to demand an explanation.

• Xiang Yuan balanced Baize and Guan Yan’s advances with a slap, then returned to the Dry Abyss Realm after watching the Buddha defeat Sun Wukong.
• Xiang Yuan entered the first of Ji Wuzhou’s paintings, experienced a profound insight, and found that his perception of the laws of heaven and earth had sharpened.
• Xiang Yuan learned numerous Heavenly Saber arts from the second painting, used Steady to refine them, and absorbed laws from the third painting to strengthen his body and inner world.
• Xiang Yuan emerged from ten days of cultivation and traveled to Yellow Springs Dao headquarters to meet Chan’er.
• Xiang Yuan found Chan’er questioning a bound woman in an underground chamber, stopped her from harming the captive, and recognized the woman as Sima Qingyan.
• Xiang Yuan demanded that Chan’er explain how Sima Qingyan had come to the headquarters.

Xiang Yuan rescued Sima Qingyan from the Yellow Springs Dao, healed her injuries, and agreed to accompany her to Sword Heart Studio. They arrived at the sect, where Xiang Yuan was surprised to find young women casually cracking sunflower seeds at its entrance.

• Chan'er explained how she had captured Sima Qingyan, and Xiang Yuan decided to take the woman out of the Southern Border.
• Xiang Yuan left the Holy Maiden's Hall with Sima Qingyan and treated her injuries at Yulin Academy, removing the Yellow Springs Dao techniques from her body.
• Sima Qingyan explained that Xiao He had forced her to infiltrate Yellow Springs Dao by threatening her father, and Xiang Yuan told her to stop serving as an undercover agent.
• Sima Qingyan invited Xiang Yuan to Sword Heart Studio, and he agreed to travel with her after learning she hoped the sect could restore his lost cultivation foundation.
• Xiang Yuan and Sima Qingyan reached Sword Heart Studio in Bishui County, where he found several young women cracking sunflower seeds outside the entrance.

Sima Qingyan brought Xiang Yuan into Sword Heart Studio for treatment, where he secretly studied the sect’s sword pillars and impressed Lay Buddhist Lingyu with his comprehension. Lingyu agreed to help restore his damaged foundation, while plotting to match him with Sima Qingyan and warning that his unauthorized study of their sword arts would have consequences.

• Sima Qingyan’s senior sisters teased her about Xiang Yuan and gave him a token for a secluded guest courtyard.
• Sima Qingyan explained Sword Heart Studio’s guarded grounds and restricted areas, frustrating Xiang Yuan’s hopes of exploring its Scripture Repository and Armory.
• Xiang Yuan studied the sword pillars with his Enlightenment Cushion, then practiced their sword intent with a branch while Palu watched.
• Lay Buddhist Lingyu arrived with Sima Qingyan, recognized Xiang Yuan’s exceptional comprehension, and explained the four realms of Sword Heart Studio’s sword arts.
• Lingyu learned that Xiang Yuan had supposedly lost his chastity and damaged his foundation while saving Sima Qingyan, then urged her to pursue him and offered to restore him.
• Lingyu agreed to treat Xiang Yuan but warned that he would answer for secretly learning Sword Heart Studio’s sword arts.

Xiang Yuan pretended to be gravely ill, prompting four Sword Heart Studio physicians to try and fail to treat him with vast quantities of heavenly treasures. As Daoist Purple Duckweed carried him to seek help from Eldest Senior Sister, Daoist Jiehai gathered enemies of Sword Heart Studio and revealed a plan to exploit the sect’s weakened defenses.

• Xiang Yuan reconstructed a flashy but impractical sword technique, then met Lay Buddhist Lingyu, who examined him after Sima Qingyan explained his supposed condition.
• Xiang Yuan described his encounter with the demoness, and Lingyu summoned Daoist Purple Duckweed, Su Ya, and Qin Zhaorong to examine and treat him.
• The four physicians diagnosed Xiang Yuan with a confusing array of symptoms and brought him to Daoist Purple Duckweed’s courtyard for treatment.
• Xiang Yuan consumed enormous amounts of heavenly treasures without improving, while the physicians exhausted their supplies and accumulated debts trying to cure him.
• Daoist Purple Duckweed took Xiang Yuan to find Eldest Senior Sister, while Daoist Jiehai persuaded a gathering of Sword Heart Studio’s enemies to attack during the sect’s weakened state.

Daoist Purple Duckweed brought Xiang Yuan to Shang Qingmeng for help, but Shang Qingmeng said his strange constitution could not be treated without an excessive cost. Xiang Yuan recovered after five days of invasive study and wandered Sword Heart Studio’s inner grounds with Tang Rou, while Chang Xiuming arrived to see Shang Qingmeng.

• Daoist Purple Duckweed took Xiang Yuan into the Nine Absolute Sword Formation to ask Shang Qingmeng to examine his injuries.
• Shang Qingmeng diagnosed Xiang Yuan’s weakness as a constitution rather than an illness and said treating him would cost too much.
• Daoist Purple Duckweed considered harvesting Xiang Yuan, so he recovered quickly and endured five days of examination by her and Qin Zhaorong.
• Xiang Yuan explored the inner sect, avoided a group of curious female disciples, and met Tang Rou, who offered to guide him around forbidden areas.
• Tang Rou identified a melancholy young man as Martial Uncle Chang, the second disciple of Sword Heart Studio’s headmaster, and Chang Xiuming entered the Sword Pillar Forbidden Ground to meet Shang Qingmeng.

Chang Xiuming betrayed Sword Heart Studio by trapping Shang Qingmeng and summoning Daoist Jiehai and his allies, while Xiang Yuan fought the invading cultivators across the sect. Xiang Yuan rescued Daoist Purple Duckweed from danger and revealed his overwhelming strength, leaving her furious that he had pretended to be injured.

• Chang Xiuming sealed Shang Qingmeng in the Nine Absolute Sword Formation and summoned Daoist Jiehai, Fairy Empty Shadow, and their allies into Sword Heart Studio.
• Fairy Empty Shadow confronted Shang Qingmeng over the sword scar on her face and trapped her with the Cloudwater Painting, but Shang Qingmeng broke free and wounded her.
• Xiang Yuan noticed the altered formation, took Tang Rou toward safety, and then attacked three Spirit Transformation cultivators who were threatening Sword Heart Studio disciples.
• Xiang Yuan killed one attacker with a single strike and fought the other two as the disciples watched in shock.
• Daoist Purple Duckweed and the disciples faced a Blood God Child avatar and several enemy cultivators until Xiang Yuan arrived and struck down the three attackers with the Heavenly Blade Technique: Thunder Shakes the Nine Heavens.
• Xiang Yuan apologized for arriving late, and Daoist Purple Duckweed realized he had never been injured and demanded repayment for the food she had bought him.

Xiang Yuan defended Sword Heart Studio from Daoist Jiehai’s Blood God Child avatars and other attackers, then followed Daoist Purple Duckweed and Qin Zhaorong to the sword-pillar restricted grounds. There, he tore open a powerful spatial treasure’s barrier and found Shang Qingmeng emerging after destroying Fairy Empty Shadow’s Primordial Spirit.

• Daoist Purple Duckweed warned Xiang Yuan about Daoist Jiehai’s Blood God Child avatars, but Xiang Yuan shattered the blood hand with his innate divine strength and burned away more than a hundred avatars with Raise Fire to Burn Heaven.
• Xiang Yuan helped Sword Heart Studio repel its attackers, killing Spirit Transformation cultivators and destroying more Blood God Child avatars while the sect’s disciples evacuated.
• At Embroidery Heart Pavilion, Xiang Yuan rescued Qin Zhaorong from a Blood God Child avatar, defeated the Hundred Rivers Alliance attackers, and pursued the last fleeing avatar until it collapsed.
• Qin Zhaorong guessed that Xiang Yuan had been pretending to be ill and led him to the sword pillar, where Daoist Purple Duckweed revealed that Shang Qingmeng was trapped by a magic treasure wielded by a Nether Insight grandmaster.
• Xiang Yuan tore apart the Cloudwater Painting’s barrier and briefly exposed Fairy Empty Shadow with Shang Qingmeng; Shang Qingmeng then emerged and destroyed Fairy Empty Shadow’s Primordial Spirit.

Xiang Yuan entered Sword Heart Studio’s pocket heaven as Sword Venerable Su Ran fought Daoist Jiehai and Chang Xiuming, who revealed their demonic powers and sought to exploit her. As Su Ran and Shang Qingmeng battled Chang Xiuming, Xiang Yuan drew the Rouge Sword and unleashed a corruption that spread through the pocket heaven, leaving Su Ran to realize another demon had appeared.

• Shang Qingmeng restored the Nine Absolute Sword Formation, exposed Chang Xiuming as the traitor, and entered the pocket heaven to aid Sword Venerable Su Ran.
• Xiang Yuan followed Shang Qingmeng into the pocket heaven, where Daoist Jiehai and Chang Xiuming confronted the aged Su Ran and Chang Xiuming revealed a demonic eye embedded in his chest.
• Sword Venerable Su Ran used the Dao Sword to split Daoist Jiehai and destroy his Blood Sea Realm manifestation, but the attacks exhausted her strength.
• Chang Xiuming tried to use Su Ran as a catalyst for his scheme, and Shang Qingmeng let Su Ran control her body to wield the Dao Sword against him.
• Chang Xiuming transformed into a faceless demon and clashed with Shang Qingmeng while Xiang Yuan watched from nearby.
• Xiang Yuan drew the Rouge Sword, tore open the sky, and spread corrupt demonic qi through the pocket heaven, contaminating its master’s Primordial Spirit.

Xiang Yuan helped Sword Venerable Su Ran defeat the Great Devil and learned many supreme sword arts while she controlled his body. After using his body to absorb the divine blood that restored her youth, Su Ran ordered Shang Qingmeng to purge the desire-sin inside her by coupling with Xiang Yuan, leaving him protesting as Shang Qingmeng began to undress.

• Xiang Yuan contaminated the Lesser Grotto-Heaven with Mad Beauty Sword’s Crimson Universe, and Sword Venerable Su Ran used the demonic qi to regain enough strength to fight.
• Sword Venerable Su Ran possessed Xiang Yuan and wielded the Dao Sword realm to repel the Great Devil, teaching him supreme sword arts in the process.
• After the battle, Sword Venerable Su Ran passed the sect-master position to Shang Qingmeng and began her final farewell, but she noticed Xiang Yuan refining the blood pool’s medicine.
• Sword Venerable Su Ran linked Xiang Yuan to the Blood-Drop Sword and drew its divine blood through his body, restoring her strength and transforming her into a young woman.
• Sword Venerable Su Ran learned that Shang Qingmeng’s desire-sin could be purged by coupling with Xiang Yuan, then drew him to Shang Qingmeng as she began loosening her robes.