Recaps

Ning Chen forged new swords, defeated the Primeval Demonic Realm, and returned to the mortal world to keep his promise before searching for Xin Yu’s reincarnation. After a thousand years, he found Little He facing danger on Oblivion Continent.

• Ning Chen forged three divine swords and returned to help the underworld resist the Primeval Demonic Realm’s invasion.
• Ning Chen and the human kings fought the demon army, and Ning Chen killed Demonic Emperor Kunyi with the Four Immortal Slaying Swords.
• Ning Chen returned to Great Xia, reunited with Xia Chi, and learned that Mingyue had vanished after leaving the throne.
• Ning Chen watched over humanity for centuries, captured the Black Phoenix, and investigated a mysterious force that grievously wounded Young Master Xiaobai.
• After waiting a thousand years, Ning Chen left the Divine Realm and searched for Xin Yu’s reincarnation across the True Martial Star.
• Ning Chen accepted Chen Hongmian as his nominal disciple and learned from Old Master Jiang of a God or Devil near the Oblivion River Starfield.
• Ning Chen searched Oblivion Continent while Little He rejected Scholar Wang’s marriage proposal and faced a young man who attacked her home.
• Ning Chen arrived in the rain, brushed away Little He’s tears, and told her, “No more crying.”

Ning Chen crossed into the Divine Realm to recover Xin Yu’s soul and restore his cultivation, then pursued insight into his blocked Dao. After helping defeat a Hall of Gods expert outside Wei City, he began studying the forbidden Enlighten Me Dao Sword method.

• Ning Chen killed the Oblivion River Lord and battled an ancient God or Devil, learning that the lost souls were held in the Divine Realm’s Heaven of No Desire.
• Ning Chen crossed into the Divine Realm, survived the Rising Sun God’s Heavenly Fire Purgatory, and underwent Heavenly Revelation before setting out to restore his cultivation and find Xin Yu’s soul.
• Ning Chen reached Myriad Sword Mountain and joined the Sword Discourse Competition, where Feiyu won the chance to comprehend Great Profound Peak’s sword intent.
• Jiang Taibai defeated the Great Profound Ancestor, destroyed his cultivation, and left Myriad Sword Mountain after revealing his identity to Ning Chen.
• Ning Chen settled in Wei City, where the Blacksmith and Teacher advised him about his Slaughter Sword Dao and his unstable Dao Heart.
• A blue-robed expert’s Dao-slaying sword injured Yun Manlu, and Ning Chen, Teacher, and the young man in blue repeatedly fought the expert outside Wei City.
• Li Blacksmith killed the blue-robed expert with a hammer, and Teacher identified him as a member of the Hall of Gods.
• Ning Chen accepted responsibility for the forbidden sword method, studied it through the night, and Yun Manlu chose not to strike him when she found him immersed in it.

Ning Chen embraced his demonic nature, fought his way through divine and imperial powers, and continued killing monks across the Western Buddhist Realm. After escaping Kunpeng with Cihang Bodhisattva’s help, he refused to return to Buddha Mountain, and the Western Buddha resolved to kill him.

• Ning Chen awakened his demonic body to save Demonic Moon, but she died in his arms at Wei City, and he absorbed her to become a complete demon.
• Ning Chen defeated Yun Manlu, devoured the Water Cloud Heavenly Maiden, and slaughtered divine forces before impersonating Flowing Stream to infiltrate the Vermilion Bird Divine Temple.
• Ning Chen destroyed the Vermilion Bird Divine Temple, entered the Great Yu Dynasty, killed the Confucian Sect Dragon Head, and escaped the Divine Prison with its prisoners.
• Ning Chen led the Hundred Great Sinners against the imperial city, helped the Dragon Vein escape the Great Yu Emperor’s suppression, and fled after confronting the Confucian Sect Dragon Head.
• Ning Chen traveled west with Little Gourd and the Giant Dragon, then began killing Buddhist monks and freeing wronged souls after the old monk refused to help him reach Spirit Transformation.
• Cihang Bodhisattva pursued Ning Chen across the seas, but Kunpeng swallowed them before either could land a decisive attack.
• Trapped inside Kunpeng, Ning Chen and Cihang Bodhisattva agreed to a truce, and she helped him cultivate until Heaven’s Wrath opened a way out.
• Ning Chen escaped Kunpeng, refused to return to Buddha Mountain, and continued through the Buddhist Realm as the Western Buddha decided he could not be allowed to live.

Ning Chen left Buddha Mountain, gathered allies, and brought down the Hall of Gods’ formation before pursuing the White Tiger Divine Lord into the underworld. After reuniting with his friends and returning to the Divine Realm, he set out for the Eastern Divine Realm with Bai Wangyu and found a wounded demon woman under attack.

• Ning Chen completed his Undying Demonic Body, fought Buddha Mountain’s forces, and left with Aizen Myōō after Cihang Bodhisattva renounced her Dao Fruit and helped them escape.
• Aizen Myōō exposed Buddha Mountain’s practice of consuming believers’ lifespans, while Ning Chen and Aizen Myōō stole the Origin Crystal Pagoda from the White Tiger Divine Temple.
• Ning Chen recruited the Hundred Great Sinners and experts from a hundred sects, then led them in an assault on the Hall of Gods and the Kirin Divine Hall.
• Ning Chen battled the Divine Lords and helped destabilize their Slaying Gods Grand Formation, but the Kirin Divine Lord transformed it into the Kirin God-Slaying Formation and forced Aizen Myōō’s forces to retreat.
• The Rising Sun God and Moon God fought the four Divine Lords, and Ning Chen intervened, killed the Black Tortoise Divine Lord, and pursued the fleeing Kirin and White Tiger Divine Lords.
• Ning Chen killed the Kirin and White Tiger Divine Lords, entered the underworld, and met a gravekeeper who said the Lord of Hell had been gone for thirty thousand years before Ning Chen fled a heavenly tribulation.
• Ning Chen reunited with A'man, Luo Xingchen, Mu Qianshang, Ruoxi, Qing Ling, Consort Luo, Xia Ziyi, and others, then returned to the Divine Realm with Bai Wangyu after the Rising Sun God and Moon Goddess rescued them from the void.
• Ning Chen and Bai Wangyu traveled to the Eastern Divine Realm, where they found several dozen swordsmen attacking a wounded demon woman and decided to help her.