Recaps

Ning Chen traveled west with Ruoxi, seeking the Resurrection Technique and bringing Wan Hongzhu and Jian Shui'er into his company. At the Hundred Dynasties Competition, he entered the Contest Pagoda and was surrounded by powerful opponents as he summoned a divine sword.

• Changsun died peacefully against Ning Chen’s shoulder, and Ning Chen later left the manor with Ruoxi and the Ice Coffin.
• At sea, Ning Chen traded Phoenix Blood with a Black Tortoise Descendant, then defended Xin Liangchen and Jiaqi from Zhao Ling'er’s attempt to seize the pipa player.
• Ning Chen guided the wounded Hong Wulei, then entered Yuheng Sacred Land and sought the Resurrection Technique by joining its competition as an outer disciple.
• Ning Chen helped Wan Hongzhu forge the sword Undying Bloom and defeated Jian Shui'er and Yin Yixuan before leaving the Sacred Land with Ruoxi, Wan Hongzhu, and Jian Shui'er.
• Ning Chen’s group survived an attack tied to Jian Shui'er’s past and crossed Jiatian Pass, while Ning Chen refused Ye Fengdu’s demand to surrender his hands in exchange for Hong Wulei.
• Mei Yingxue attacked Ning Chen with Passion-Severing Spring Poison, but he killed her and expelled the poison from Ruoxi.
• Ning Chen shielded his companions from the Sin-Purging Incantation and Profound Water Calamity, then reached Jingfeng City and entered the Contest Pagoda with Wan Hongzhu and Jian Shui'er.
• Ning Chen helped Jian Shui'er leave the tower and sent Wan Hongzhu onward, then fought Aizen Myōō, King Xuanyang, and four other heaven’s chosen before summoning a purple-gold divine sword into Zhimin’s hand.

Ning Chen fought through the Contest Pagoda, faced the Yuheng Old Ancestor, and sought a way to preserve the Ghost Maiden before joining Bailu Academy. There, he became entangled in Hong Wulei’s past and used the Three Kings’ rivalries to bring down the Azure King.

• Ning Chen defeated the Contest Pagoda’s challengers and Four Symbols, then left to fight Ye Fengdu at Luofu Peak, where their duel ended with Ning Chen victorious.
• The Yuheng Old Ancestor seized Ning Chen’s Phoenix and Ghost Sources, but Ning Chen and Knowing Fate overcame him, and Mu Qianshang finished him as Mountain Above Mountain fell.
• Ning Chen and Mu Qianshang challenged Water God Tian Wu for the Azure Dragon’s Origin Dragon Pearl, and Tian Wu stabilized the Ghost Maiden’s spirit body with his heart’s blood.
• Ning Chen, Qi Yanxia, and Hong Wulei joined Bailu Academy as Teaching Masters, where Ning Chen investigated Emperor Yuan and trained alongside Hua Zhongdie.
• Hong Wulei told Ning Chen about the Demon Wheel Sea and Immortal Palace, and he struck her with the Red King’s Ring to force the Purple King and Dark King to reveal their ties to her.
• Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie watched the Purple King and Dark King clash over Hong Wulei, but Hong Wulei recoiled from Ning Chen when he returned to the palace, and the Purple King refused to let him take her.
• As sect forces entered the Demon Wheel Sea, the Shaking Light King reached the Dragon Burial Forbidden Land, while Ning Chen arranged for the Dark King and Hua Zhongdie to attack the Azure King.
• The Dark King and Hua Zhongdie defeated Bi Chengkong in the Azure Royal Palace, and the Azure King accepted defeat with a blade at his throat.

Ning Chen survived his phoenix tribulation, but its killing karma separated his soul from his body and created a demonic body wielding the Red Serpent Demonic Sword. After a fragment of his soul returned to his sleeping body, Ning Chen pursued the demonic body as Hua Zhongdie confronted it at Shenghua Mountain.

• Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie killed the Dark King and Purple King, then hurried back to Bailu Academy as Yao Qiluo’s beast army threatened it.
• Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie left the academy, fought Mo Qingbai and other enemies, and Ning Chen unleashed karmic fire to face the Demon Venerables and Luoshen.
• Ning Chen’s phoenix tribulation devastated the Nine Heavens, and Hua Zhongdie searched the turbulent void for him before he woke in Burial Gorge with the White Flood Dragon.
• The White Flood Dragon learned to use Words Become Law to escape Burial Gorge, while the Kaiyang princes ambushed Hua Zhongdie and Zhao Liusu.
• Ning Chen arrived as Hua Zhongdie faced the princes, killed all three despite Yi Xuanmiao’s plea, then carried her into Fallen Phoenix Pass to restore her failing vitality with heavenly thunder.
• The Abnormal Roc took a soul from Ning Chen’s Phoenix Body and claimed the Red Serpent Demonic Sword, becoming the Demonic Body of Slaughter.
• Nu Chang brought Ning Chen’s phantom soul to Bailu Academy, where she placed one soul into his sleeping Phoenix Body and told Yi Qingqiu to help restore the rest.
• Ning Chen left to pursue his demonic body, while Hua Zhongdie fought it at Shenghua Mountain and Bi Qingwei was killed when the demonic body broke free of her net.

Knowing Fate’s search for Zhao Liusu and his clashes with the Zhao Family led to a mass pursuit that drove him into the Dragon Burial Forbidden Land. Trapped beneath the earth, he broke through the Yellow Springs Restriction and awakened Xuan Luo, who offered to revive someone in exchange for release.

• Ning Chen fought the Demonic Body, then defeated and absorbed him before returning to Bailu Academy with Hua Zhongdie and Yi Xuanmiao.
• Ning Chen entered the Zhao Family under the name Bai Yujing, protected Zhao Liusu during an assault, and discovered a conscious mark hidden in her life soul.
• Ning Chen learned that the Grand Elder Pavilion had taken Zhao Liusu, while Zhao Youlan uncovered the plan to transform her into a Human Sovereign.
• Zhao Youlan fought Zhao Jinglun, and Ning Chen stopped his escape with a Life Substitute Talisman just as Zhao Liusu’s Alien Consciousness awakened.
• The Human Sovereign overwhelmed Ning Chen and Zhao Youlan, and the Zhao Family’s Demon-Extermination Order brought a vast force against Ning Chen, and Zhao Youlan later died in Soul Prison.
• Ning Chen fought through the pursuing sect forces until Luo Xingchen helped him escape, and Hua Zhongdie vowed to avenge him if he did not return from Demon Wheel Sea.
• Ning Chen entered the Dragon Burial Forbidden Land, where the Demonic Body of Slaughter took control and became trapped by the Yellow Springs Restriction as Butterfly crossed the Ancient Battlefield.
• After ten months, the Phoenix Body broke the restriction and merged with the Demonic Body, which entered an underground stone palace and awakened Xuan Luo, who offered to revive someone if Ning Chen destroyed the talismans sealing his other half.