Recaps

Ning Chen searched for a way to revive the dead while protecting Yin'er, and the struggle for the Immortal Slaying Sword brought Prince Yan back into the story. After returning to Ink Mountain, Ning Chen uncovered the fate of former peak masters and confronted Chaos when it attacked Yin'er.

• Marquis of Knowing Fate battled Xuan Luo with Supreme Heaven’s forbidden sword array, then absorbed part of Xuan Luo’s demonic power and left with Yin'er in an Immortal Palanquin.
• Ning Chen took Yin'er to Hongluan Star and then Ink Star, where he became the Ink Lord’s ninth personal disciple and began teaching her swordsmanship.
• Ning Chen and Ayluo Zhen entered the Fengshui Forbidden Land, survived its trials, and were sent to search the Western Immortal Realm for the Immortal Slaying Sword.
• The Queen Mother of the West appeared in her palace, defeated Marquis in Purple, and told Ning Chen that the dead could be brought back before vanishing.
• Prince Yan returned and defeated the Red Luan Realm King and the Ink Lord’s incarnations, then urged Ning Chen to pursue sword intent and look after Yin'er.
• Back on Ink Mountain, Ning Chen defeated Soaring Cloud in a sword duel and later received White Rainbow after Soaring Cloud disappeared.
• Ning Chen discovered the memorial tablets of former peak masters, fought Chaos in the Nether Forest, and witnessed Marquis in Purple’s attack on the Ink Lord before an unknown figure rescued him.
• Ning Chen found Huayang’s remains in the Mustard Seed Space, then returned when Chaos attacked Yin'er and crushed it beneath his demonic foot.

Ning Chen helped the Phoenix Body break free of the Heart-Bewitching Art and obtain the Jade Pond Water, then trapped the Red Luan Royal Territory’s leaders in the Grand Void Divine Realm. He turned to the demonic calamity on Jialuo Star, where he found Xia Ziyi and helped him escape the Golden Radiance Emperor, leaving Ziyi alive but still bound to his demonic nature.

• Ning Chen fought the Phoenix Body at Sun-Moon Lake, while Prince Yan and A’man learned that Qing Ling might take ten to a hundred years to awaken.
• The Phoenix Body passed the Love Tribulation and revealed to Ning Chen that the Jade Pond Divine Water lay in the Grand Void Divine Realm.
• Ning Chen entered the Divine Realm, found the Jade Pond Water, and fought the Divine Palace forces as Zhìming regained his memories and refused to marry the Red Luan Princess.
• Ning Chen fused his two bodies, destroyed the Divine Palace, and collapsed the realm’s entrance, trapping the Red Luan Realm King and his allies inside.
• Ning Chen apologized to Red Luan, then learned Ayluo Zhen had disappeared and that the Ink Lord would not reveal her whereabouts.
• Ning Chen and Yin'er reached the ruined Slaughter Sword Sect, where Ning Chen recognized Ziyi’s demonic energy and buried the dead.
• Ning Chen followed Bai Qin to the imperial city, stole and tempered the Azure Frost Sword, while the demon fought the Golden Radiance forces to reach the Dragon Gate.
• The Golden Radiance Emperor and the demon fought, and Ning Chen carried the wounded Xia Ziyi away before infusing him with Phoenix Essence.

Ning Chen lost control of his Phoenix Body, but Yin'er gathered the villagers’ prayers that helped him return from nirvana and defeat the Ink Lord’s forces. After the Heaven Speaker offered Yin'er her position, Ning Chen and Yin'er left Heavenly Language Star together, while the Underworld Hall dispatched Vermilion Bird to retrieve the Phoenix.

• Ning Chen fought the Underworld Emissaries and survived with help from a demonic body that destroyed them, while Lü Luo rescued Yin'er and Consort Luo.
• Ning Chen sought the Heaven Speaker’s help restoring his Phoenix Body, but her trial awakened his demonic nature and he attacked her before draining Yin'er’s life force.
• The Heaven Speaker sealed Ning Chen’s demon body and restored his Phoenix Body, while Yin'er set out to gather prayers that could ease his karmic burden.
• Yin'er reached Li Family Village and asked its people to pray for Ning Chen as Ink Sect masters came to seize him and the Heaven Speaker battled the Ink Lord.
• More than a thousand villagers’ prayers awakened Ning Chen, who defeated Qi Huan and the Sixth and Seventh Peak Lords before the Ink Lord killed them.
• Ning Chen, Xiang Yuan, and Lü Luo fought the Ink Lord while the Heaven Speaker battled the Golden Radiance Emperor, then the Heaven Speaker drove both enemies away at great cost.
• The Heaven Speaker offered Yin'er her position, but Yin'er declined, and Ning Chen absorbed his demon body’s memories before they left Heavenly Language Star.
• Half a month later, Ning Chen taught Yin'er cultivation on the Mishui River and considered how to make the Immortal Peach Tree bear fruit sooner.

Ning Chen killed the Ink Lord, recovered from the battle, and followed the route to the Ancient Battlefield with A'man and Yin'er. As powerful factions took interest in A'man, Ning Chen faced Divine Schemes on the Ancient Starry Road.

• Ning Chen and Vermilion Bird defeated White Tiger’s divine trial, but Ning Chen later fought and sealed the Vermilion Bird Underworld General.
• Prince Yan confronted the Underworld Palace, while Ning Chen entered the Fire Domain and returned to kill the Ink Lord with his Phoenix and demonic bodies.
• Ning Chen healed aboard the Painted Boat, then accepted the Moonlit Tower Master’s route to the Ancient Battlefield in exchange for peachwood.
• Ning Chen traveled with A'man and Yin'er, protected a child from mounted attackers, and secretly killed the men who later pursued them.
• Ning Chen rescued Lian Yue, recognized his Heavenly Tome technique, and learned that he carried a fragment called the Scroll of God.
• In Qinglian City, Ning Chen bought Yin'er a protective wooden sculpture and attended a gathering where A'man fought Qingyuan after he insulted Ning Chen.
• Divine Schemes confronted Ning Chen and demanded an answer about A'man, then attacked after she chose to follow Ning Chen’s decision.
• Ning Chen sent A'man and Yin'er away and clashed swords with Divine Schemes, who praised his swordsmanship but criticized his weak foundation.