Recaps

Shi Lan found Wu Lingkong gravely wounded and treated her before joining the army’s withdrawal toward Immortal Martial City. As the portal began transporting the troops, a blood-red blade aura struck toward it.

• Shi Lan discovered Wu Lingkong badly wounded after a blue-scaled python’s attack and used a Water Spirit Treasure Lingzhi and her own vital energy to help her recover.
• Shi Lan warned Wu Lingkong that a great battle was near, then left the tent and saw the camp preparing to move.
• Qi Ruiyu directed the army to enter a vast space channel formed by the Demon-Suppressing Commanders’ World Gates.
• Qi Ruiyu stabilized the portal with spirit crystals, and the wounded from the women’s camp entered first.
• The sky darkened, and a blood-red blade aura struck toward the portal.

Qi Ruiyu led the Demon-Suppressing Army against a Saint Weapon and its allies, using the army’s formation to withstand its attacks. As an endless tide of beasts approached, he spent all his military merits to receive empowerment from the Human Race Annals and crushed his Demon-Suppressing Token to invoke it.

• Qi Ruiyu rallied the million soldiers and used their gathered blood and qi to block the circular blade’s attacks.
• Qi Ruiyu drove the circular blade back and prepared to strike, but more than thirty powerful figures broke through the formation and defended the weapon.
• A young woman in blue called the circular blade a Saint Weapon and warned Qi Ruiyu that the human army was not the only force with numbers, as beasts surrounded the battlefield.
• Qi Ruiyu contacted the Human Race Annals and confirmed that he would exchange all his military merits for two breaths of empowerment.
• Qi Ruiyu crushed his Demon-Suppressing Token, shocking the Demon-Suppressing Marshals and Generals.

The Human Race's Historical Tome empowered Qi Ruiyu to save the million-strong army and strike down the great demons, but the power destroyed his body. Before crumbling to ashes, he gazed at the stars and wondered when the Emperor would return.

• The Human Race's Historical Tome appeared after the Demon-Suppressing Order shattered, and its power drove the demons and their sacred circular blade to retreat.
• Qi Ruiyu seized the circular blade, but it broke as the Tome's power began to disintegrate his body; he opened the spatial passage and sent the army through while the other Commanders held it stable.
• The blue-robed young woman led the great demons back toward Qi Ruiyu, who called for the Tome to grant him one more breath.
• The Tome's power returned, allowing Qi Ruiyu to send the million-strong army through the passage and strike the charging demons with a devastating palm.
• The palm gravely wounded the blue-robed young woman and suppressed the other great demons, while Qi Ruiyu's body crumbled after he glimpsed the starry ocean and wondered when the Emperor would return.

After Qi Ruiyu’s attack devastated the demons, their injured Supreme Lord called for reinforcements from the Eighteen Demon Emperor Halls. Back in Immortal Martial City, Bai Weiyang prepared his officers to defend the city, and Shi Lan found her spirits lifted by their resolve and banter.

• Liu Yunzheng told a phantom that he would accept punishment for using the Human Race's historical records when the Emperor returned.
• The surviving great demons dug out their severely injured Supreme Lord, who ordered them to summon reinforcements from the Eighteen Demon Emperor Halls.
• More than a million soldiers returned to Immortal Martial City through an unstable spatial passage, and Shi Lan reflected on Qi Ruiyu's righteousness.
• Bai Weiyang gathered his officers, declared that they had to defend Immortal Martial City without relying on the Shengwu Immortal Sect, and promised to face death beside them.
• The officers joked with Shi Lan about marriage and death, easing the somber mood as the Demon-Suppressing Army's flag flew outside.

Bai Weiyang offered Shi Lan and her family a chance to escape the Demon calamity by joining the Bai Household in the Central Heaven Domain, but she refused and stayed with the Demon Suppression Army. She reflected on her cultivation goals beneath the Shengwu Immortal Sect’s protective formation, which could not keep the Demon Race out.

• Bai Weiyang summoned six Bai Household elders and asked Shi Lan to join their household and leave for the Central Heaven Domain with her family and friends.
• Bai Weiyang offered to expel Shi Lan from the Demon Suppression Army rather than punish her for deserting, but Shi Lan declined the offer.
• Bai Weiyang accepted Shi Lan’s refusal and gave her nearly half a month off to return home and rest.
• Shi Lan reviewed her system panel and noted that she had one year to reach the Heavenly Dipper Realm to complete her main mission.
• Shi Lan looked at the Immortal Martial Yin-Yang Formation and recognized that it could not stop the Demon Race.

Shi Lan prepared to take leave from the camp and considered using the gray sword Wuxu had given her if the Demon Race threat became too great. While searching the women's camp for Wu Lingkong, she unexpectedly encountered Lu Yueqing, who did not recognize her until Wu Lingkong called her name.

• Shi Lan ordered Wang Ning to handle her camp duties while she took half a month of leave.
• Shi Lan changed out of her armor and considered the gray sword Wuxu had given her, deciding she would use it if necessary.
• Shi Lan went to the women's camp to check on Wu Lingkong but could not find her at first.
• Lu Yueqing stopped Shi Lan and asked where she was from and whether she had siblings, failing to recognize her.
• Wu Lingkong arrived and called Shi Lan by name, leaving Lu Yueqing shocked.

Shi Lan reunited with her fiancée Lu Yueqing and arranged to explain their engagement to her and her father. She then visited the Battle Merit Hall with Wu Lingkong, where she saw the rewards available for battle merit and learned that someone had exchanged for a sealed Fox Clan Demon King.

• Shi Lan told Wu Lingkong that Lu Yueqing was her fiancée, then offered to explain the engagement to Lu Yueqing and her father.
• Lu Yueqing said she would visit Shi Mansion with her father in three days, then hurried away.
• Wu Lingkong told Shi Lan about the Demon Suppression Army's exchange point, and they visited the Battle Merit Hall.
• Shi Lan used her Demon Suppression Token and discovered she had 4,135,674 battle merit points.
• Shi Lan viewed the listing for a sealed Shapeshifting Demon King, then saw that someone had exchanged for the Fox Clan Demon King.

Shi Lan exchanged battle merits for a Heavenwaste Halberd, cultivation pills, and a foundation-casting method for her younger brothers. On the third floor, she recognized the black-robed figure accompanying an Earth Fiend Realm martial artist as the fox-race Demon King and overheard them decide to leave the city quickly.

• Shi Lan considered the unknown martial artist who had spent more than eighteen million battle merits to take the fox-race Demon King, then focused on the exchange items.
• Shi Lan exchanged battle merits for a Heavenwaste Halberd, cultivation pills, and the Nine-Spirit Foundation-Casting Method for her younger brothers.
• A Demon-Subduing Army soldier escorted Shi Lan to the third floor to collect her items.
• Shi Lan used the Heavenly Eye Qi-Observing Technique and recognized the black-robed figure beside a young Earth Fiend Realm martial artist as the fox-race Demon King.
• The young man asked the Demon King whether Shi Lan had seen through her disguise, and she told him not to cause trouble and to leave the city quickly.

Shi Lan collected her rewards from the War Merit Hall, learned the risks and potential of the Nine Spirits Foundation-Tempering Method, and claimed the Heavenly Desolation Halberd. As hidden observers debated the pure demonic aura they sensed on her, Wu Lingkong invited Shi Lan to explore Immortal Martial City's market.

• Shi Lan studied the Nine Spirits Foundation-Tempering Method and considered carefully choosing the powerful beings whose blood would forge her younger brothers' foundations.
• Shi Lan collected the jade bottles and took the Heavenly Desolation Halberd, whose murderous aura shattered a wooden rack before a watcher warned her to leave if she wanted to test it.
• Several observers in the War Merit Hall's attic discussed a captured fox demon and the faint, exceptionally pure demonic aura they had sensed on Shi Lan.
• A Demon-Slaying Marshal dismissed concerns about Shi Lan, saying the Demon-Slaying Army's records confirmed its members' loyalty to humankind.
• Wu Lingkong met Shi Lan on the second floor and invited her to explore the market in Immortal Martial City.

Shi Lan and Wu Lingkong visited a quiet tavern in Immortal Martial City, where Shi Lan recognized Lu Chengye as someone she had met while fleeing the demon calamity. Lu Chengye approached her, believing she resembled an old acquaintance, and the chapter ended as their past connection resurfaced.

• Shi Lan and Wu Lingkong explored Immortal Martial City and entered a tavern where a purple incense stick brought a peaceful calm to its patrons.
• Lu Chengye arrived with several Confucian Sect disciples, disrupting the quiet, and apologized to the martial artists before escorting his group upstairs.
• Shi Lan recognized Lu Chengye from a brief encounter near Tenglong City two cycles of the seasons earlier, when she was still in the Body Tempering Realm.
• Lu Chengye approached Shi Lan, introduced himself, and asked her surname because she resembled an old acquaintance.

Shi Lan avoided forming ties with Lu Chengye after he mistook her for someone else, then returned home to reflect on her gains from the Battle Merit Hall. At the Shengwu Immortal Sect, Shi Feng refused to enter the Holy Martial Realm and left for Immortal Martial City to repay two lives, where his master knew his greatest obstacle awaited.

• Shi Lan left the tavern after telling Lu Chengye he had mistaken her for someone else, and her true energy repelled him when he tried to follow.
• Shi Lan and Wu Lingkong toured the city before parting, and Shi Lan returned home to sort through what she had gained at the Battle Merit Hall.
• Fang Chan told Shi Feng that the sect had arranged for him to cultivate in the Holy Martial Realm and Nine Dragon Pool, but he refused to enter.
• Shi Feng left the sect for Immortal Martial City, saying he still owed two lives and had to repay them.
• Luo Xiuhan declined to send a guardian after Shi Feng and revealed that the greatest obstacle in Shi Feng's life was in Immortal Martial City.

Shi Tianlu decided to enter seclusion to attempt a breakthrough to the Heavenly Gang Realm, leaving Shi Lan to protect the family. The next morning, Shi Lan received word that four people claiming to be her friends had arrived at the Shi Mansion.

• Luo Xiuhan recalled failing to alter Shi Feng's fate and the divination master's warning, then passed through a silver gate.
• Shi Lan finished cultivating with sixty-nine of her seventy-two Earthly Fiend acupoints opened, and Shi Tianlu told her he planned to break through to the Heavenly Gang Realm.
• Shi Tianlu asked Shi Lan to oversee the family during his seclusion and advised her to be patient with Lu Changfeng, but not to tolerate excessive mistreatment.
• Shi Lan gave Shi Tianlu a Primordial Yang Fruit to aid his breakthrough.
• The next morning, Shi Lan noticed that the spiritual energy in Immortal Martial City had grown muddied and scarce, then went to meet four visitors who claimed to be her friends.

Shi Lan reunited with Gu Rentong, Gu Deyuan, and Gu Qingcang in Immortal Martial City and learned they had fled Ancient Phoenix City. Gu Rentong offered her Phoenix Blood in exchange for help getting Gu Qingcang into the Shengwu Immortal Sect’s inner sect, but an arrival interrupted before she could answer.

• Shi Lan sensed Phoenix Blood in the reception hall and greeted Gu Rentong, Gu Deyuan, and Gu Qingcang.
• Gu Qingcang knelt to thank Shi Lan for helping awaken his mind, but she told him the favor had already been repaid.
• Gu Rentong explained that he and nearly a hundred others had fled Ancient Phoenix City and settled in Immortal Martial City.
• Gu Qingcang opened crystal boxes containing Phoenix Blood, and Gu Rentong asked Shi Lan to help him enter the Shengwu Immortal Sect’s inner sect.
• An unseen speaker interrupted Shi Lan before she could respond, saying Gu Rentong was a step too late.

Shi Lan ordered Shi Feng to surrender his Shi Clan token and sever his ties to the Shi Mansion, while discovering that her bond had been draining his fortune. A voice revealed that Shi Lan had died two years earlier, and Shi Feng drew his cross-blade in shock and despair.

• Shi Feng entered the Shi Mansion with his shadow guard token and learned that the Shengwu Realm had already opened.
• Shi Lan tried to take Shi Feng’s token and ordered him to leave it behind and cut ties with the Shi Mansion.
• Shi Lan used the Heavenly Eye Qi-Observing Technique and saw that her chain had drained Shi Feng’s fortune until cracks formed in his Pillar of Fortune.
• A voice told Shi Feng that Shi Lan had died two years earlier, and he realized her strange changes had a different explanation.
• Shi Feng drew his pitch-black cross-blade as earth-baleful True Qi surged around him.

Shi Lan defeated Shi Feng after he attacked her, then faced the Shengwu Immortal Sect when its people arrived at the Shi Mansion. A Demon-Suppression Army officer intervened and declared that the army would take full control of Immortal Martial City.

• Shi Feng attacked Shi Lan, but Golden Rainbow blocked his blade aura while Samsara shielded the Shi Mansion from the destruction.
• Shi Lan told Shi Feng that she was Shi Lan now, then struck him with the Heavenly Extreme Seal and held the Heavenwasteland Halberd to his throat.
• Shi Lan told Shi Feng that she owed him nothing and that they had been even since Twin Moon City.
• The Shengwu Immortal Sect arrived at the Shi Mansion, and its gray-robed elder challenged Shi Lan for injuring its True Disciple.
• Wu Lingkong stood beside Shi Lan, and a Demon-Suppression Army officer arrived and announced that the army would take control of Immortal Martial City.

After Shi Lan’s conflict with Shi Feng ended, Demon-Suppression Marshal Yue Xiuwen questioned her about surviving in the boundless Demon Domain and returning to the Shenzhou Vast Land. Shi Lan concealed the Lan Clan and Samsara, and the chapter ended with her worrying that Shi Feng might reveal the truth to Su Lanyue or Shi Tianlu.

• The Shengwu Immortal Sect’s gray-robed elder saw the purple Demon-Suppression Order, backed down, and led Shi Feng and the others away.
• Yue Xiuwen sealed off the area and questioned Shi Lan about disappearing into the boundless Demon Domain and returning unharmed.
• Shi Lan hid the truth about the Lan Clan and Samsara, claiming that a human race Imperial Armament had helped her return.
• Yue Xiuwen gave Shi Lan a brocade pouch to suppress her demonic aura, then left through a spatial passage.
• Su Lanyue checked that Shi Lan was unharmed, and Shi Lan worried that Shi Feng might reveal her secrets to Su Lanyue or Shi Tianlu.

Shi Lan used the Phoenix blood to help Shi Qinghu forge his first heavenly foundation, but a sudden marshal’s order announced that the Demon-Suppressing Army would seal Immortal Martial City. The chapter left Shi Lan and Wu Lingkong facing the threat of the city being sealed.

• Shi Lan calmed Su Lanyue and kept Shi Qinghu behind to prepare his foundation forging.
• Gu Rentong decided to take his group out of Chengtian Domain, and Shi Lan bought the Phoenix blood from him with treasured medicines and spirit crystals.
• Shi Lan brought Shi Qinghu and Wu Lingkong to a secret chamber and explained the Nine-Spirit Foundation-Casting Method to Shi Qinghu, who agreed to undergo it.
• Shi Lan used the Black Domain to refine the Phoenix blood and guide its energy into Shi Qinghu, forming a foundation as a divine phoenix phantom appeared.
• The Demon-Suppressing Marshal’s Token delivered an order to seal the city, leaving Shi Lan and Wu Lingkong solemn.

Shi Lan helped Shi Qinghu complete his celestial foundation, then learned that Immortal Martial City had been sealed and the Gu family could not leave. She sought Bai Weiyang’s help, but as he asked for a reason to assist her, a white-robed figure emerged from a spatial passage and told her to say yes.

• Shi Qinghu completed his celestial foundation with a divine phoenix totem, and Samsara recognized the phoenix blood as belonging to an existence of at least eight stars.
• Wu Lingkong left to return to the camp and help with the city lockdown, while Shi Lan recovered and prepared to break through a dragon gate.
• Shi Qinghu returned with Wu Lingkong and the Gu family, reporting that the gates were sealed and the protective formation was active.
• Shi Lan promised to look for a way to help Gu Rentong and took Wu Lingkong to Bai Weiyang’s camp.
• Shi Lan asked Bai Weiyang to help the Gu family leave the city, and he asked her to give him a reason.
• A white-robed figure stepped through a spatial passage and told Shi Lan to say yes.

Yan Mobei recognized Shi Lan as the bearer of the Sword Emperor’s inheritance, offered his protection, and gave her a sword talisman. After helping her friends leave Immortal Martial City, Shi Lan returned home and prepared to use her clan’s faith power and system draws to advance her cultivation.

• Yan Mobei cleared the tent and told Shi Lan that Senior Wuxu had informed him about her and entrusted him with her care.
• Shi Lan declined Yan Mobei’s offer to send her friends and family to the Central Heaven Domain, but accepted his sword talisman containing three Sword Qi.
• Bai Weiyang arranged for Shi Lan’s friends to leave through the west gate, and Shi Lan escorted Gu Rentong, Gu Qingcang, and his son out of the city.
• Shi Lan returned to Shi Mansion and entered the secret chamber to prepare to open her three Dragon Gates with phoenix blood and pursue the Heavenly Dipper Realm.
• Shi Lan checked her system, exchanged 200,000 points for two Intermediate Draws, selected the Items category, and started a draw before realizing she had forgotten something.

Shi Lan obtained the Crimson Dragon Armor, Violet Lightning Fluid, and a fragment of the Three-Life Stone, then used the lightning fluid to advance her cultivation to the great completion of the Earth-Fiend Realm. She left seclusion after Su Lanyue warned that the Lu Clan had come to call.

• Shi Lan examined and put on the Crimson Dragon Armor, which could protect her from attacks by late Heavenly Dipper Realm martial artists.
• Shi Lan drew the Violet Lightning Fluid and Three-Life Stone fragment, and wondered whether she would choose to return to her past life.
• Shi Lan absorbed the Violet Lightning Fluid to strengthen her body and true qi, breaking through the first two Dragon Gates.
• After nearly a day and night of cultivation, Shi Lan shattered the final Dragon Gate and reached the great completion of the Earth-Fiend Realm.
• Su Lanyue urgently told Shi Lan that the Lu Clan had come to call, reminding Shi Lan of what she had forgotten.

Shi Lan prepared to meet the Lu Clan about her engagement and arrived in the main hall wearing the Moon Extremity Dress. When Lu Clan members questioned her authority to speak for the Shi Clan, she revealed her Earth Dipper Realm cultivation at great perfection.

• Su Lanyue urged Shi Lan to dress formally before meeting Lu Changfeng and the Lu Clan, so Shi Lan changed into the Moon Extremity Dress.
• Shi Lan emerged in the striking dress and led the Shi Clan party to the main hall.
• Lu Clan members discussed the engagement and their concerns about Lu Yueqing's reputation while Lu Changfeng remained silent.
• Shi Lan entered and took the seat of honor, then explained that her father was in seclusion and she was managing Shi Mansion for him.
• After two Lu Clan members challenged Shi Lan's authority, she released her cultivation and displayed Earth Dipper Realm great perfection.

Shi Lan accepted Lu Changfeng’s proposal to cancel Lu Yueqing’s betrothal by declaring the Shi family’s eldest son dead and forming a sworn-sister bond with Lu Yueqing. The rite bound the two women and triggered Lu Yueqing’s breakthrough into the Earthly Fiend Realm, while the Lu family began to wonder how powerful Shi Lan might become.

• Shi Lan offered compensation for the Shi family’s mistaken betrothal, and Lu Changfeng demanded that the eldest son be declared dead and that Lu Yueqing become Shi Lan’s sworn sister.
• Shi Lan agreed, and Su Lanyue arranged a Dao altar and offerings for the rite.
• Shi Lan and Lu Yueqing exchanged blood, burned their talismans, and swore vows to Heaven, forming a bond that let them sense each other’s state.
• Lu Yueqing absorbed the energy in Shi Lan’s blood and broke through from the Xiantian Realm into the Earthly Fiend Realm.
• The Lu family celebrated Lu Yueqing’s breakthrough and wondered whether Shi Lan might lead the Shi family to produce a Human Emperor.

After Lu Yueqing broke through to the Earth Fiend Realm through her pact with Shi Lan, the Lu Clan left, and Shi Lan returned to seclusion to attempt the Heavenly Dipper Realm. At the Shengwu Immortal Sect, Shi Feng learned that Shi Lan might have awakened memories from a past life, leaving him unsure whether she was still the same person.

• Lu Yueqing reached the Earth Fiend Realm, vowed to repay Shi Lan, and promised to prove her worth.
• Lu Changfeng took the Lu Clan party home after asking Shi Lan to congratulate Shi Tianlu when he emerged from seclusion.
• Fang Yunhao treated Shi Feng's injuries and dismissed his claim that an evil spirit had taken over Shi Lan's body.
• Fang Yunhao suggested Shi Lan might have awakened memories from a past life, while Shi Feng wondered whether she was still Shi Lan.
• Shi Lan returned to her secret chamber and began using the remaining Purple Thunder Liquid to break through to the Heavenly Dipper Realm.

Shi Lan broke through to the Heavenly Dipper Realm by opening her Guanyuan Acupoint, triggering a massive tide of spirit qi across Immortal Martial City. As Shi Tianlu displayed the Demon-Suppressing banner outside Shi Mansion, Shi Lan received new missions and numerous rewards from the system.

• Shi Lan absorbed Purple Thunder Liquid and Phoenix Blood to force open her Guanyuan Acupoint, then replenished her true qi with a spirit crystal and surrounding essence qi.
• Shi Lan's breakthrough drew a tide of spirit qi that spread nearly a hundred li, attracting martial artists across Immortal Martial City.
• Shi Tianlu emerged from seclusion as a Heavenly Dipper Realm expert, and Su Lanyue told him about the recent trouble involving the Shengwu Immortal Sect, the Demon-Suppressing Army, and the Lu Clan.
• When a guard reported that martial artists had gathered outside Shi Mansion, Shi Tianlu went out and planted a Demon-Suppressing banner before them.
• Shi Lan received rewards for completing her mission, new missions to reach the Myriad Phenomena Realm and kill a powerful Demon Race member, and multiple newly unlocked items and coordinates.

Shi Lan completed her breakthrough into the Early Heavenly Dipper Realm and examined the rewards and knowledge she had received. She learned that the system could open passages to other worlds with enough energy, but the chapter left her weighing that possibility against preserving Sword Emperor Guiyun's legacy.

• Shi Lan absorbed the surrounding energy and reached the Heavenly Dipper Realm, gaining vastly greater power and the ability to fly on true qi alone.
• Shi Lan studied the True Martial Indestructible Body and found that its first stage required thousands of rare spiritual materials, so she set the method aside.
• Shi Lan examined the Moon-Gazing Steps and stored the Soaring Feather Sword Art for later because she had not yet mastered her halberd art.
• Shi Lan opened the system panel, saw her world coordinates, and learned that she lacked the energy to open a space-time passage.
• Shi Lan refused to decompose Sword Emperor Guiyun's nine-star Dao Fruit, intending to find a successor for his inheritance, and learned what its energy could do.