Recaps

Ning Chen arranged a midnight alliance with the Purple King to draw out and kill the Dark King, while Hong Wulei struggled to understand his motives. The plan ended with Hua Zhongdie stabbing the Dark King in the chest, though he counterattacked and sent her flying.

• Ning Chen entered the Purple Thorns Royal Palace to take Hong Wulei away, but she hesitated after the Purple King claimed the Dark King had murdered her father.
• Ning Chen offered to help the Purple King kill the Dark King in exchange for the Dark King's King's Ring and King's Artifact, and she agreed to meet him at midnight.
• The Dark King accepted the alliance because he wanted the Purple King dead, while Hong Wulei remained confused about Ning Chen's intentions.
• At midnight, Hua Zhongdie and the Dark King confronted the Purple King in Three Flowers Hall as Ning Chen watched from outside.
• Hua Zhongdie was injured during the battle, then drove her saber into the Dark King's chest during his clash with the Purple King.
• The Dark King endured the wound and struck Hua Zhongdie with a full-powered palm, sending her flying as she coughed up blood.

Ning Chen and the Purple King defeated the Dark King, but the Purple King betrayed Ning Chen and tried to seize the kings’ artifacts. Ning Chen and the Azure King fought her until she unleashed the Red King’s artifact, and a barefoot woman arrived with Tears of Buried Flowers.

• Ning Chen and the Purple King combined their attacks to defeat the poisoned Dark King, who fell after using his final move against the Purple King.
• The Purple King struck Ning Chen from behind and demanded the king’s ring and sword from Hong Wulei, but Ning Chen protected her and revealed he had suspected the Purple King.
• The Azure King arrived, and he and Ning Chen joined forces against the Purple King, who drew on the Dragon Vein’s power.
• The Purple King brought out the Red King’s artifact and unleashed a blood-colored hell that suppressed Ning Chen and the Azure King.
• A barefoot blue-clad woman entered the battlefield carrying Tears of Buried Flowers, and the Purple King reacted with alarm.

Hua Zhongdie killed the Purple King, and Ning Chen returned Hong Wulei’s king’s ring before leaving with Hua Zhongdie. An urgent message summoned them back to Bailu Academy, where Yao Qiluo and a massive beast tide were attacking while Emperor Yuan pursued the Human Sovereign Realm.

• Hua Zhongdie defeated and killed the Purple King with Tears of Buried Flowers, then made the Qing King promise to keep her identity and actions secret.
• Ning Chen apologized to Hong Wulei by returning the Red King’s Ring, gave her the Red King’s royal weapon, and told her that Ye Fengdu was still alive.
• Hua Zhongdie gave the Qing King medicines that cured the Dark King’s poison, and five days later Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie left while Hong Wulei went into seclusion.
• An Azure Bird delivered the Academy Head’s urgent message, so Hua Zhongdie and Ning Chen hurried back toward Bailu Academy.
• Yao Qiluo led tens of thousands of ancient beasts and nine powerful beasts against Bailu Academy’s formation, while Yi Qingqiu and the academy’s elders defended it.
• Imperial edicts recalled the princes and attendants as Emperor Yuan cultivated with the dynasty’s fate in an attempt to reach the Human Sovereign Realm.

Bailu Academy survived a massive assault from the Primeval Land after Yi Xuanmiao and Hua Zhongdie joined the battle, but Ning Chen learned that Emperor Yuan would soon enter the Human Sovereign Realm. The chapter ended with Ning Chen asking for time to consider how to stop the growing threats.

• Yi Xuanmiao arrived at Bailu Academy, wounded Silver Leopard, and held off two demon kings while Hua Zhongdie confronted Yao Qiluo.
• Yao Qiluo ordered the demon kings and beast tide to retreat, and Yi Xuanmiao left for the Kaiyang Imperial Palace after speaking with Yi Qingqiu and Ning Chen.
• Ning Chen attacked Emperor Yuan at the palace, but Yi Xuanmiao intercepted his arrow and prevented him from continuing.
• Yi Zhaohui learned that Yi Xuanmiao had gone to Bailu Academy and privately considered his own wait for the throne.
• A Zhao Family elder helped defend Emperor Yuan from Ning Chen's next attack, and Yi Xuanmiao again blocked Ning Chen before he withdrew.
• Ning Chen told Hua Zhongdie and Yi Qingqiu that Emperor Yuan would soon enter the Human Sovereign Realm, then asked them to give him time to think.

Ning Chen proposed a plan to draw the four princes and the Primeval Land into conflict while revealing Hua Zhongdie, and Hua Zhongdie agreed to trust him. In the Northern Plains, Mu Chengxue defeated Wu Qingying to enter the Heavenly Sound Valley, leaving her purpose there unrevealed.

• Ning Chen proposed that the academy gift the Heavenly Esteem Pill to the Kaiyang imperial family, invite the four princes to the Heavenly Fire Pagoda, and expose Hua Zhongdie as the Scroll of Sun's thief.
• Yi Qingqiu objected that Emperor Yuan would soon reach the Sovereign Realm and that revealing Hua Zhongdie would invite attacks, but Hua Zhongdie agreed to proceed and staked her life on Ning Chen.
• Hua Zhongdie dragged Ning Chen away after teasing him for ordering her to be still.
• Mu Chengxue forced her way into the Heavenly Sound Valley after Wu Qingman refused to let her enter.
• Mu Chengxue defeated Wu Qingying with a sword move combining three scrolls, and Wu Qingying let her pass into the valley.

Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie left the academy together after learning that a Human Sovereign had come south, while Yi Qingqiu stayed behind to face the newcomer. The Azure-White Venerable, Mo Qingbai, arrived at the academy and declared that he intended to kill Hua Zhongdie.

• Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie clashed on the eighth level of the Heavenly Fire Pagoda until Yi Qingqiu stepped in to contain their shockwaves.
• Ning Chen explained that Emperor Yuan had not taken the Heavenly Esteem Pill and predicted that the academy’s gift would draw trouble from Half-Venerable experts.
• After Yi Qingqiu revealed that a Human Sovereign had come south, Ning Chen decided to leave the academy with Hua Zhongdie rather than let her face the danger alone.
• Hua Zhongdie gave her final opera performance at the academy, and she and Ning Chen departed before dawn.
• Mo Qingbai arrived at the lakeside pavilion, greeted Yi Qingqiu, and said he had come to kill Hua Zhongdie.

Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie prepared to confront the Thirteen Great Bandits, with Ning Chen buying a house in White Emperor City and planning to earn money by fighting them. At night, they found the bandits in the wilderness, and Ning Chen unleashed Nine Suns Burning Heaven to kill three of them.

• Mo Qingbai went south to hunt Hua Zhongdie, while Yi Qingqiu sent a warning message that reached her in White Emperor City.
• Ning Chen bargained with the Pot-bellied Merchant and bought his house for three thousand taels, leaving himself without money for Hua Zhongdie's rouge and powder.
• Hua Zhongdie told Ning Chen that Mo Qingbai and the remaining bandits were coming, and they planned to fight them that night.
• Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie traveled into the wilderness and found seven bandits gathered around a bonfire; Hua Zhongdie engaged the three Half-Venerables while Ning Chen attacked the others.
• Ning Chen used Nine Suns Burning Heaven to unleash nine suns and kill three bandits.

Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie defeated the three bandit Half-Venerables, though Hua Zhongdie was slightly injured while shielding him from Bahong’s self-destruction. They returned to White Emperor City, where Hua Zhongdie bought rouge before Ning Chen continued preparing for his journey to the Demon Wheel Sea.

• Ning Chen arrived to help Hua Zhongdie fight Bahong, Jinghua, and Luohui, and Hua Zhongdie killed Luohui with her blades.
• Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie trapped the remaining bandits; Hua Zhongdie killed Jinghua, and Bahong detonated his cultivation before Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie could finish him.
• Hua Zhongdie protected Ning Chen from the blast and suffered minor internal injuries, so he carried her while they returned toward White Emperor City.
• As they traveled, Ning Chen said he still had to enter the Demon Wheel Sea to seek a way to awaken the Ghost Maiden, and Hua Zhongdie asked him to deal with Mo Qingbai before leaving.
• In White Emperor City, Hua Zhongdie selected three boxes of rouge, and Ning Chen paid ten taels of gold for them.

Ning Chen rescued Zhao Liusu from a mysterious attacker and learned she belonged to the Zhao Family, then joined Hua Zhongdie on the way to the imperial palace. There, Emperor Yuan survived an assassination attempt, killed one Half-Venerable, and drove the other away as the battle ended.

• Ning Chen declined Lü Ying’s advances at Spring Flowers Autumn Moon Pavilion and shared a table with a disguised young gentleman.
• When the pavilion shook, Ning Chen blocked an illusory attacker from seizing the young gentleman and discovered she was Zhao Liusu.
• Zhao Liusu followed Ning Chen, and Hua Zhongdie recognized her as the granddaughter of the Zhao Family elder in Kaiyang Imperial Palace.
• Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie headed to the palace with Zhao Liusu as Emperor Yuan’s forces fought two Half-Venerables.
• A second arrow wounded Emperor Yuan, but he unleashed his power, killed Dugu Xiu, and forced the other Half-Venerable to flee.

Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie kept Zhao Liusu at their house after he rescued her, and learned more about the Zhao Family and its Death Substitute Talismans. The chapter ended when an unexpected visitor arrived at their courtyard.

• Ning Chen persuaded the tearful Zhao Liusu to stay at the house for a few days, while Hua Zhongdie questioned her about the Zhao Family.
• Ning Chen brought Zhao Liusu steamed buns and fermented mung bean milk, then agreed to take her to see the Lantern Festival lanterns.
• Ning Chen asked Zhao Liusu about her attacker and learned that the Zhao Family had two Death Substitute Talismans that could save those below the Human Sovereign level.
• Hua Zhongdie sang and danced in the courtyard as Ning Chen and Zhao Liusu watched.
• Someone called from outside the courtyard, and Ning Chen recognized the visitor and rose with a grave expression.

Ning Chen hid Zhao Liusu in the imperial city while Yi Xuanmiao visited and quietly left without searching the house. As the Lantern Festival began, Ning Chen revealed to Hua Zhongdie that he planned to draw Mo Qingbai into his coming Three Calamities Tribulation, while Hua Zhongdie prepared to conceal her identity and Zhao Liusu pulled Ning Chen out to celebrate.

• Yi Xuanmiao visited Ning Chen, said he trusted Ning Chen’s Sword Heart, and left without searching for the missing Zhao Liusu.
• Ning Chen warned Hua Zhongdie that Yi Xuanmiao might become a problem for them and took Zhao Liusu out to buy clothes in disguise.
• Emperor Yuan learned that Ning Chen had appeared in the city and ordered his guard not to alert him or reveal their surveillance.
• Ning Chen told Hua Zhongdie that he faced the Three Calamities Tribulation and intended to use its karmic fire to draw in Mo Qingbai, but Hua Zhongdie objected to the danger.
• As the Lantern Festival began, Hua Zhongdie disguised herself while Zhao Liusu dragged Ning Chen out to join the celebrations.

During the Lantern Festival, Ning Chen accompanied Zhao Liusu through the crowds, where they solved lantern riddles and encountered Hua Zhongdie performing onstage. Ning Chen’s martial aura summoned a storm, bringing him and Hua Zhongdie face-to-face with Mo Qingbai and Mi Fei; as battle loomed, the Kaiyang Dynasty’s four princes and Imperial City forces arrived to intervene.

• Zhao Liusu set a lantern bearing her wishes afloat, then explored the festival with Ning Chen, who secretly protected her from people in the crowd.
• At a lantern-riddle stall, Ning Chen supplied answers for Zhao Liusu and solved several difficult herb riddles himself.
• A maid invited Ning Chen to meet her lady, but he declined and continued with Zhao Liusu to watch the opera.
• Zhao Liusu recognized Hua Zhongdie onstage, and Ning Chen’s martial essence stirred the heavens, bringing a torrential rain that scattered the crowd.
• Mo Qingbai confronted Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie alongside Mi Fei, while Zhao Liusu left at Ning Chen’s request; Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie prepared to fight.
• The Kaiyang Dynasty’s four princes arrived with Imperial City forces, and Yi Xuanmiao told the gathering to take their private grievances elsewhere.

Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie fought Mo Qingbai and Luoshen in the Primeval Land, but Luoshen’s Words Become Law and the arrival of Yao Qiluo turned the battle against them. After a second Demon Venerable appeared, Ning Chen sent Hua Zhongdie away and unleashed a vast karmic fire tribulation on the gathered enemies.

• Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie lured Mo Qingbai and Luoshen west and engaged them in a devastating battle across the Primeval Land.
• Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie exchanged opponents to counter Mo Qingbai and Luoshen, but Luoshen used Words Become Law to freeze the battlefield and Mo Qingbai injured Hua Zhongdie.
• Ning Chen regained control of himself, combined his blade and sword to wound Luoshen, and attacked alongside Hua Zhongdie as their enemies pressed them.
• Yao Qiluo appeared, Ning Chen confronted her with Nirvana, and Luoshen answered with Silent Reincarnation before a second Demon Venerable emerged.
• Ning Chen sent Hua Zhongdie out of the battlefield and summoned karmic fire that engulfed himself, three venerables, and Luoshen.
• Hua Zhongdie escaped the flames and looked back at the figures swallowed by the karmic fire.

Zhiming endured an apocalyptic karmic fire tribulation in the Primeval Land while Luoshen, Mo Qingbai, and two Demon Venerables were trapped inside and forced to help him survive. As allies sent their power and blood to restore his Phoenix Body, the tribulation continued to intensify, leaving Zhiming to face one final assault.

• Qi Yanxia and Yi Qingqiu sensed the terrifying tribulation burning over the Primeval Land and feared for the person within it.
• Zhiming revealed his Phoenix Body as karmic fire and lightning overwhelmed him, while Luoshen, Mo Qingbai, Yao Qiluo, and the other Demon Venerable struggled to withstand the calamity.
• The Demon Venerables offered their heart's blood to help Zhiming return to his ancestral lineage, and he swallowed the blood as he dived through the lightning.
• Human experts gathered beyond the tribulation, while allies sent palm force, sword lights, and a crimson arrow to lend Zhiming their strength.
• The blood of the Azure Dragon and Black Tortoise restored Zhiming's Phoenix Body, and he soared into the clouds as ten thousand lightning bolts and a meteor shower of karmic fire descended.

After Ning Chen vanished in the aftermath of his phoenix tribulation, Hua Zhongdie and several old companions searched the ruined void while wounded powers fought over the phoenix. The search ended without finding him, and Hua Zhongdie continued alone, badly injured and refusing to give up.

• Ning Chen’s phoenix tribulation devastated the Nine Heavens, leaving him unconscious and the Human Sovereigns and Luoshen gravely wounded.
• Hua Zhongdie entered the turbulent void to search for Ning Chen, while Mo Qingbai and the Demon Venerables pursued the phoenix.
• Consort Luo and Luoshen held off human powerhouses as Sword Two, Mu Qianshang, and Luo Xingchen searched the void for Ning Chen.
• Sword Two fought the injured Yao Qiluo, broke his ancient sword with a powerful strike, and forced her to retreat after Luo Xingchen’s arrow joined the attack.
• Mo Qingbai ambushed a Demon Venerable near Ning Chen, but she escaped into white mist with the unconscious phoenix before he could capture them.
• The searchers found neither Ning Chen nor his corpse, and Hua Zhongdie continued searching through the void for a full day and night despite her worsening injuries.

Prince Yan arrived in Primeval Land, defeated Luoshen in a one-sword duel, and later destroyed Mo Qingbai’s martial arts while seeking justice for a junior. Meanwhile, Hua Zhongdie continued searching desperately for the missing Zhiming, her health and spirit failing.

• The Zhao Family identified Luo Xingchen among the mysterious experts and ordered people to kill him and recover the Star Scar Bow.
• Prince Yan and A'man visited Tiancang Academy, where Yi Qingqiu explained the events surrounding Zhiming and Luoshen’s unexpected appearance.
• Prince Yan challenged Luoshen by the Luoshui River and pierced her shoulder with one sword, sparing her life; Consort Luo helped her recover.
• After finding Butterfly gone from White Emperor City, Prince Yan agreed to seek justice for a junior and traveled north with A'man.
• On the White Wolf Plains, Prince Yan defeated Mo Qingbai, severed his hand, and shattered his sea of qi, leaving the Human Sovereign alive but without his martial arts.
• Hua Zhongdie searched the streets for Zhiming despite coughing blood and collapsing from exhaustion, while Zhao Liusu urged her to rest.

Ning Chen and the weakened White Flood Dragon struggled to survive and find a way out of Burial Gorge while competing over fire, shelter, and food. The chapter ended with them agreeing to share half a wild wolf in exchange for Ning Chen starting a fire.

• Ning Chen woke in Burial Gorge and fought off the White Flood Dragon when he tried to reclaim the Phoenix source.
• Ning Chen and the White Flood Dragon discovered they were trapped between sheer cliffs, then fought over a fire as both endured the cold.
• The White Flood Dragon took control of Ning Chen's rain shelter, while Ning Chen later kept the fire by threatening to douse it.
• Ning Chen found a wild wolf, but the White Flood Dragon stole it and failed to make a fire by copying Ning Chen.
• After chasing each other until they were exhausted, Ning Chen offered to start a fire for half the wolf, and the White Flood Dragon agreed.

Ning Chen followed White Flood Dragon through Burial Gorge, trying to witness her comprehension of Words Become Law, but she repeatedly drove him off. Outside the gorge, news of Mo Qingbai and Luoshen’s injuries spread, while the bloodied Butterfly searched for a young man in red robes.

• Ning Chen and White Flood Dragon briefly shared a campfire, and he noticed her unusual quietness and ethereal presence the next morning.
• Ning Chen followed White Flood Dragon to observe her Words Become Law, but she attacked him and chased him through a torrential rainstorm that turned into water arrows.
• That night, Ning Chen watched White Flood Dragon condense water under the moon and realized Burial Gorge’s power might also be a form of law.
• White Flood Dragon attacked Ning Chen again at dawn, and he fled after failing to defeat her.
• News spread across Central Province that Mo Qingbai had been taken away and a Supreme’s martial arts had been crippled, while reports of Luoshen’s injuries linked both events to the tribulation in Primeval Land.
• The bloodied Butterfly staggered through a Central Province city and asked whether anyone had seen a handsome young man in red robes.

Ning Chen forced White Flood Dragon to swear not to trouble him for half a year and explained a plan to escape Burial Gorge. As they began preparing, Hua Zhongdie continued searching for Ning Chen in Qiyue City while her health deteriorated.

• Ning Chen repeatedly disrupted White Flood Dragon's cultivation until White Flood Dragon agreed to swear he would leave Ning Chen alone for half a year after they escaped.
• Ning Chen explained that White Flood Dragon's control over rainwater could help them escape, and they agreed to work together.
• During a heavy rain, Ning Chen dug a pit with Ghost Maiden's sword and called for White Flood Dragon to drain the water from it.
• Hua Zhongdie arrived in Qiyue City with Zhao Liusu, coughing up blood as she continued searching for Ning Chen.
• Yi Qingqiu learned that the Academy had not yet found Hua Zhongdie and that Scholar had gone out to search for her.

White Flood Dragon used Words Become Law to escape Burial Gorge with Ning Chen, then bargained for Phoenix essence. Meanwhile, Hua Zhongdie was poisoned and gravely wounded while fighting the Kaiyang princes, and the academy sent Elder Qi to rescue her as another mysterious figure arrived.

• White Flood Dragon mastered Words Become Law during a downpour and raised a waterfall to carry Ning Chen out of Burial Gorge.
• The Kaiyang princes ambushed Hua Zhongdie and Zhao Liusu, and their army attacked after Yi Zhaohui declared that Hua Zhongdie had to die.
• Hua Zhongdie fought the princes despite her wounds, but poison and crossbow bolts weakened her until she unleashed Butterfly Dance, Peaceful Clarity and escaped.
• White Flood Dragon demanded Phoenix origin heartblood from Ning Chen in exchange for granting him one request after half a year, and Ning Chen reluctantly agreed.
• Yi Qingqiu learned that Hua Zhongdie was in grave danger and sent Elder Qi to bring her back, but a red-lit newcomer appeared before the old gatekeeper could depart.

Ning Chen rescued Hua Zhongdie from the three princes of the Kaiyang Dynasty, but her wounds and poison left her near death. The White Flood Dragon sent him to Fallen Phoenix Pass to seek the Yin-Yang Dual-Polarity Heavenly Thunder, where Ning Chen flew into a tribulation that threatened him as he tried to save her.

• Hua Zhongdie and the exhausted God of Blades fought the three princes and their forces outside Qiyue City until Hua Zhongdie fell gravely wounded.
• Ning Chen arrived, carried Hua Zhongdie on his back, and slaughtered the black-clad experts before killing all three princes despite Yi Xuanmiao’s plea for their lives.
• At Tiancang Academy, Yi Qingqiu said Hua Zhongdie could not be saved by ordinary means, so Ning Chen sought help from the White Flood Dragon.
• The White Flood Dragon told Ning Chen that the Yin-Yang Dual-Polarity Heavenly Thunder at Fallen Phoenix Pass might restore Hua Zhongdie’s failing vitality, despite being a deadly tribulation for him.
• Ning Chen carried Hua Zhongdie into Fallen Phoenix Pass, avoided the first bolts of heavenly thunder, and flew toward the cliff where Solar Thunder swallowed him.

Ning Chen endured the Solar Thunder to carry Hua Zhongdie to the summit, where the alternating yin and yang thunder began restoring her life while he fell unconscious below. The Abnormal Roc then freed the Red Serpent Demonic Sword, and the Demonic Body of Slaughter faced Sword Forging Villa’s Half-Venerable as upheaval spread across Central Province.

• Ning Chen repeatedly took Solar Thunder strikes as he carried Hua Zhongdie toward the summit, where the thunder swallowed her and the sash binding them snapped.
• Over nine days, alternating Solar and Yin Thunder consumed Hua Zhongdie’s poison and began reversing her failing life force, while Ning Chen remained unconscious below the cliff.
• The Abnormal Roc seized a soul belonging to the Phoenix Body and departed, prompting Suan Tianhe and powerful figures across Central Province to sense a great change in fate.
• The Abnormal Roc broke the seals on the Red Serpent Blood Edge at Cold Mountain Flame Ridge, while Sword Forging Villa’s old man tried to stop it.
• The Abnormal Roc took the Red Serpent Demonic Sword and transformed into the Demonic Body of Slaughter; the old man raised an ancient stone sword to confront him.

The Sword Forger Master fought the Knowing Fate Demonic Body at Cold Mountain Flame Ridge but was defeated, and the demonic body departed with Red Serpent. Hua Zhongdie brought the soulless red-clad figure to Bailu Academy, while the Venerable Lady and Nu Chang discovered that killing karma had stolen the Phoenix Body’s soul and prepared to send a portion of Knowing Fate’s True Body soul to him.

• The Sword Forger Master unleashed his strongest move, but the demonic body countered with Demonic Art, Blood Flame, broke the stone sword, and left him fallen as the Sword Forging Villa disciples rushed to him.
• The White Flood Dragon crossed the lightning tribulation at Fallen Phoenix Heavenly Pass and found the red-clad figure without soul or spirit; Hua Zhongdie took him away with Tears of Buried Flowers ready.
• Hua Zhongdie returned to Bailu Academy, told Yi Qingqiu that the figure’s soul and spirit were gone, and collected prepared pills from the scholar in Jinglun Pavilion.
• Killing karma surged around Knowing Fate’s True Body at the Purple Light Platform, and Nu Chang and the Changling Venerable Lady suppressed it with help from the four cauldrons.
• The Venerable Lady determined that the Phoenix Body’s killing karma had stolen its soul and ordered Nu Chang to separate part of Knowing Fate’s soul and send it swiftly to Bailu Academy.

Ning Chen’s Demonic Body of Slaughter fought off a sect alliance led by Gong Wuhen, leaving the wilderness strewn with bodies before continuing west. At Bailu Academy, Nu Chang delivered Ning Chen’s lost soul and placed it into his sleeping Phoenix Body, leaving Yi Qingqiu to help him recover.

• Gong Wuhen led the demon-slaying alliance against Ning Chen’s Demonic Body of Slaughter, but his attacks failed to stop it.
• Ning Chen’s killing body unleashed Demonic Style, Heaven’s Lament and defeated Gong Wuhen, who fled as the three-thousand-strong vanguard was slaughtered.
• Hua Zhongdie arrived too late to find Ning Chen and resumed chasing him westward, while Nu Chang hurried to Bailu Academy with the Human Sovereign’s letter.
• Emperor Yuan ordered Yi Xuanmiao to respond to Red Serpent’s emergence and secretly sent a shadow to monitor him.
• Nu Chang introduced herself to Yi Qingqiu as Chang Yue and brought Ning Chen’s phantom soul to the academy.
• Nu Chang placed Ning Chen’s one soul into his sleeping Phoenix Body and told Yi Qingqiu that the mortal world owed him and the academy should help restore his lost soul.

After learning of the killing body’s rampage, Ning Chen set out while Yi Xuanmiao joined the allied forces sent to destroy it. Hua Zhongdie trapped the demonic body at Shenghua Mountain, but Bi Qingwei attacked her and the net shattered, leaving the demon free to strike.

• Yi Qingqiu told Ning Chen about the Phoenix Body and the demonic body that had taken the Red Serpent Demonic Sword, and Ning Chen departed to pursue it.
• The leaders at Demon Garment Mountain sent Yi Xuanmiao, Zhan Feibai, Zhu Jingwu, and Bi Qingwei to confront the demon, and the allied army set out from Chaohui City.
• Hua Zhongdie met the demonic body at Shenghua Mountain and battled him with Tears of Buried Flowers and her Butterfly Dance techniques.
• Hua Zhongdie trapped the demonic body in her Heavenly Net, then sat down to recover after her injuries flared up.
• Bi Qingwei attacked the recovering Hua Zhongdie, but the net shattered and the demonic body emerged, driving his sword through Bi Qingwei’s heart.