Recaps

After emerging from seclusion, Xu Xing encountered a modernized cultivation world and mistook its traffic rules and technology for a strange transformation of reality. He entered a city to investigate, while authorities feared his power and prepared for the possibility that he was a demonic-path Void Return Realm cultivator.

• A flight-lane administrator named Zhang Xiu detected Xu Xing speeding against traffic, chased him, and reported the intruder when he could not catch up.
• A Nascent Soul cultivator ordered Xu Xing to stop and show his Sword Flying License, but Xu Xing accelerated away, leading the man to believe he was a Void Return Realm cultivator.
• The Nascent Soul cultivator sent a Void-Escaping Communication Talisman to report the encounter and began arranging an evacuation of nearby Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Xu Xing saw a modern city with spirit-powered vehicles, then examined its roads and discovered a network of 365 formation bases capable of unleashing power greater than an ordinary Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Xu Xing changed his clothes to blend in and walked into the city.

Zhang Yunlu rushed to Xuanjian City No. 3 Middle School after a powerful cultivator emerged from seclusion and triggered the city-protecting formation. The cultivator, Xu Xing, entered the school library and discovered that the Joyous Union Sect had become one of the Seven Great Immortal Sects.

• Zhang Yunlu's brother warned her that a powerful cultivator above the Void Return Realm had emerged from seclusion nearby, and the city activated its protective formation.
• The city's broadcast ordered residents to seek shelter while True Person Xiaoning and other cultivators were dispatched to respond.
• Zhang Yunlu hurried to school and guided a young man inside, but he disappeared before she could speak with him.
• Xu Xing wandered unseen through the school and entered its library, where he found cultivation arts from the Seven Great Immortal Sects.
• Xu Xing noticed that one of the seven sects was the Joyous Union Sect, which had not existed among the six Immortal Sects of his time.

Xu Xing learned that Saint Emperor Abyss had transformed the cultivation world before mysteriously disappearing, then joined Zhang Yunlu at her school while a citywide protective formation was active. As the formation faded, powerful cultivators appeared in the sky above the city.

• Xu Xing read that Saint Emperor Abyss had helped reshape society and spread cultivation, then wondered whether he had been a fellow transmigrator.
• Xu Xing left the library, reflecting that he had once tried and failed to change the world, and decided to put an end to the current farce.
• At Zhang Yunlu’s school, students discussed rumors about Cang Jiezi’s older brother while the protective formation disrupted their phones and isolated the city.
• Xu Xing introduced himself to Zhang Yunlu as a cultivator from the Sword Sect and encouraged her hopes of joining an Immortal Sect.
• The city’s protective formation began to fade, and Xu Xing saw figures appear in the sky, led by a powerful Void Return Realm cultivator in dark red armor.

Xiao Ning’s Sword Sect Token reassured the Supreme Dao Sect team that the cultivator who emerged from seclusion belonged to the Sword Sect. Meanwhile, a young man entered Xuanjian City and activated an improved Soul-Seizing Formation, prompting Xu Xing to identify the threat as a plan to refine a Ten Thousand Soul Banner.

• Xiao Ning received a Purple Sword Token that declared the newly emerged cultivator in Xuanjian City a Sword Sect member and granted him Void-Evil-Breaking Sword Qi.
• Xiao Ning told his cautious disciples to inform the city mayor and led them toward the city.
• A young man entered Xuanjian City, intending to seize the souls of Xiao Ning and the other cultivators for his Ten Thousand Soul Banner.
• The young man placed two beads in the city-protecting formation’s foundation and sent illusory figures to activate the formation across the city.
• Xu Xing told Zhang Yunlu that the dragon and phoenix apparitions above Xuanjian City came from an improved Soul-Seizing Formation.

Xu Xing watched a Ten Thousand Soul Banner activate over Mystic Sword City, while True Person Xiaoning confronted the demonic cultivator behind it. The two faced off as the formation gathered power, and True Person Xiaoning mocked the young man for being unable to afford a synthetic soul.

• Zhang Yunlu resisted the Ten Thousand Soul Banner’s influence while most cultivators in Mystic Sword City became entranced.
• True Person Xiaoning discovered that several Supreme Dao Sect cultivators were decoys, then learned the city-protecting formation had been reversed into a Soul-Suppressing Formation.
• True Person Xiaoning attacked the banner with his Innate Primordial Qi Great Seizing Hand, but the demonic cultivator repelled the blow with a wave of clear light.
• The clash freed the entranced cultivators, and the demonic cultivator appeared holding the Ten Thousand Soul Banner.
• The demonic cultivator said he wanted to borrow True Person Xiaoning’s soul, and True Person Xiaoning called him a broke deadbeat who could not afford a synthetic soul.

A demonic cultivator nearly captured True Person Xiaoning with a Ten Thousand Soul Banner, but the librarian Old Jiang and then Xiaoning’s Void-Evil-Breaking Sword Qi turned the fight around. Xu Xing revealed his connection to the Great Void Sword Canon to Zhang Yunlu before disappearing, saying he would stay in the city.

• A young demonic cultivator used his Ten Thousand Soul Banner and Soul-Snaring Array to overwhelm True Person Xiaoning.
• Old Jiang, the school librarian, revealed himself as a Void Return Realm body cultivator and intervened, but the demonic cultivator swatted him away.
• True Person Xiaoning unleashed Void-Evil-Breaking Sword Qi, which shattered a demonic expert’s enormous hand and killed the young demonic cultivator.
• Xu Xing told Zhang Yunlu that the sword qi came from a sword cultivator who practiced the Great Void Sword Canon, then confirmed her suspicion about him.
• Xu Xing said he would stay in the city and promised Zhang Yunlu a gift if they met again, then vanished.

True Person Xiaoning recovered the unfinished Ten Thousand Soul Banner and a wounded body-cultivator, then realized a powerful Sword Sect senior had secretly protected him. Xu Xing discovered that Joyous Union Sect cultivators absorbed viewers’ essence and desire through livestreams, and left one playing as he walked away.

• True Person Xiaoning collected the Demonic Cultivator’s severed arm and unfinished Ten Thousand Soul Banner, then ordered his junior martial nephews to take the unconscious body-cultivator to the hospital.
• True Person Xiaoning sensed a renewed strand of powerful purple sword qi and concluded that a Sword Sect senior had been nearby and saved his life.
• Xu Xing browsed the customization options at an abandoned flying-sword shop and used two Spirit Stones to access the owner’s computer.
• Xu Xing watched Zhong Jiajia’s livestream and felt it try to draw away his essence and desire, but it found no target.
• Xu Xing read about how the Joyous Union Sect’s internet-based cultivation method replaced draining cauldrons and helped the sect join the righteous path.
• Xu Xing reopened Zhong Jiajia’s livestream, left it playing, and walked out of the shop.

After the alarm ended, Xu Xing rented a villa in Xuanjian City through the Sword Sect’s Miscellaneous Affairs Hall. He settled into the comfortable residence as a construction crew cleared the storm clouds by force, leaving him to marvel at how wild construction had become.

• After the inspection ended and the alarm was lifted, the owner of a flying-sword paint shop returned to find people gathered around a computer playing inappropriate sounds.
• Xu Xing exchanged spirit stones for money and went to the Sword Sect’s Miscellaneous Affairs Hall to rent a residence.
• Zuo Yuning verified Xu Xing’s identity as Xu Sandao, a Nascent Soul outer sect Discipline Hall officer, after the spiritual-power reader stalled and needed several slaps.
• Xu Xing rented a spacious villa near a spiritual leyline node at a discounted rate and received formation control tokens.
• Xu Xing entered the villa and inspected its rooms and facilities before watching a construction worker punch a hole in the storm clouds after the crew received permission to alter the weather.

After Mystic Sword City’s battle, Xu Xing watched the city recover as cultivators returned, while Sword Sect disciples flew toward the city and Zhang Yunlu struggled to process what she had witnessed. The chapter leaves Zhang Yunlu lying in bed as the battle’s images replay in her mind, with the possibility that the experience could strengthen her soul and cultivation.

• Xu Xing watched Golden Core Cultivators repair the battle damage, then cleared storm-scattered petals and leaves from his garden.
• Cultivators returned to Mystic Sword City, prompting the mayor to worry that another demonic cultivator might cause trouble.
• Lin Qiuxian warned his two junior brothers not to bully anyone as they flew toward the city to seek an opportunity from the Sword Sect elder.
• Two Sword Sect disciples sped ahead and were seized by a huge hand of primordial qi, while their more subdued companion flew toward the municipal building at a slower pace.
• Zhang Xiu worried over Zhang Yunlu after she returned home shaken, and Zhang Yunlu lay in bed reliving the clash between the purple sword light and the demonic hand.

Zhang Yunlu went to school after recovering from the strange images that had tormented her, while Li Fengping noticed her unusual effect on his sword intent and secretly followed her. After mistaking Li Fengping for someone else, a masked body cultivator beat him badly, then disappeared after learning he was from the Sword Sect.

• Zhang Yunlu heard that two Sword Sect cultivators had been detained for speeding and decided to attend school despite her brother's objections.
• Li Fengping learned his senior brothers were detained and set out to recruit sword cultivators for their sect mission.
• Li Fengping noticed Zhang Yunlu stirred his sword intent, followed her to school, and planned to watch her again after handling the mission.
• Li Fengping lured a suspected follower into an alley, where a masked body cultivator ambushed and pummeled him.
• The masked figure mistook Li Fengping for someone else, gave him a healing pill, and vanished, leaving him bewildered.

Li Fengping recruited Nascent Soul sword cultivators in Mystic Sword City for a mission investigating a secret realm said to be nurturing a sword. Xu Xing, posing as Xu Sandao, and Jiang Jing agreed to join Li Fengping, while the others declined.

• Zuo Yuning verified Li Fengping's identity and agreed to notify nearby Nascent Soul cultivators about his request for help.
• Xu Xing received the mission notice and went to the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall to join the group.
• Li Fengping explained that an elder had discovered a secret realm in Mystic Sword City where someone was using it to nurture a sword.
• The burly man, the two lookalike cultivators, and the pale-faced cultivator declined the mission and left.
• Xu Xing and Jiang Jing agreed to help Li Fengping, and Xu Xing introduced himself as Xu Sandao.

Xu Xing, Jiang Jing, and Li Fengping traveled to the Secret Realm near Mystic Sword City to investigate the sword cultivator’s Sword Nurturing Ground. After Xu Xing explained that the sword’s Red Radiance had severed the mountain’s fortune, he entered the opened Secret Realm, followed by Jiang Jing and Li Fengping.

• Li Fengping shared the mission details, and Xu Xing questioned whether the sword cultivator might still be alive.
• Jiang Jing and Xu Xing agreed they were ready to depart, while Li Fengping said his injuries would not affect his combat strength.
• The three traveled to the mountain outside Mystic Sword City and frightened away the beasts following them.
• Jiang Jing noticed that no beasts on the mountain had become demons, and Xu Xing explained that the Secret Realm’s aura had severed their fortunes.
• Li Fengping opened the Secret Realm with a talisman, and Xu Xing, Jiang Jing, and Li Fengping entered in turn.

Xu Xing, Jiang Jing, and Li Fengping explored the Red Moon Secret Realm and reached the sword-shaped mountain while investigating it for the mission. When Jiang Jing struck the mountain, a powerful Sword Qi attacked her, but Xu Xing effortlessly shattered it, leaving his companions stunned by his strength.

• Jiang Jing and Li Fengping recognized the dangerous Mystic Profound Grass and avoided picking any as they crossed the plain toward the mountain.
• Xu Xing led the group through the grass, and they photographed the mountain and collected soil samples for their mission.
• Jiang Jing tried to cut a rock sample from the mountain, but her sword bounced off its hard surface.
• Xu Xing warned Jiang Jing about an incoming Sword Qi strike, and she dodged it just in time.
• Xu Xing shattered the powerful Sword Qi with two fingers, astonishing Jiang Jing and Li Fengping.

Xu Xing and the others completed their mission in the Secret Realm and left, while two demonic cultivators arrived afterward and were suddenly pulled into the Red Moon realm. The chapter left the brothers trapped beneath the Red Moon, with their fate unknown.

• Xu Xing blocked the Sword Qi, and Li Fengping wondered how an outer sect steward could be so powerful.
• Jiang Jing, Li Fengping, and Xu Xing finished collecting samples and left the Secret Realm, after Xu Xing told the Red Moon to be still.
• Jiang Jing and Li Fengping departed after Li Fengping sent the mission photos to the elders and prepared to return the samples to the Sword Sect.
• A giant python was killed by the Secret Realm passage, and two demonic cultivators arrived while discussing their search for the Zhang Siblings.
• The short demonic cultivator was swept into the scarlet Red Moon realm after silently cursing the great cultivator nearby.

Two demonic cultivators entered a Secret Realm filled with Mystic Profound Grass, where Sword Qi killed them after one disturbed the plants. Back in Mystic Sword City, Xu Xing realized the Sword Sect had uncovered his identity as Xu Sandao, while the city continued promoting traffic safety after a spate of accidents.

• The two demonic cultivators tested the Secret Realm’s spatial stability and confirmed they could leave, then planned to harvest Mystic Profound Grass without approaching Sword Peak.
• When the tall cultivator grabbed a Mystic Profound Grass plant, Sword Qi severed his arm and then shredded his body and soul; the short cultivator was killed by a tide of Sword Qi as he tried to escape.
• A blood-covered jade box appeared halfway up Sword Peak, and a white ape picked it up, found it inedible, and ran toward the summit.
• Xu Xing returned to Mystic Sword City and received a message saying the Sword Sect had sent a disciple to find him, revealing that someone knew his Xu Sandao alias.
• Xu Xing suspected the magical-power identification device at the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall had exposed him, then watched a traffic-safety program that cited sword cultivators Lin and Feng as examples after their arrests.

Li Fengping visited Lin Qiuxian in the Law Enforcement Hall and told him about completing the Secret Realm mission with Jiang Jing and Xu Sandao. The next morning, Xu Xing shopped for formation materials, but an outdated identity tablet complicated his payment, and he spotted Zhang Yunlu entering the shop.

• Li Fengping visited Lin Qiuxian and described how he, Jiang Jing, and Xu Sandao completed their Secret Realm mission.
• Xu Xing went to Moon Pavilion in Truth-Seeking to buy formation materials and a gift for his grandniece.
• Xu Xing selected three materials and tried to pay with his Sword Sect identity tablet, but the device rejected it as outdated.
• Xu Xing offered Spirit Stones from a storage ring, and the salesperson went to ask the owner about accepting them.
• Zhang Yunlu entered Moon Pavilion while Xu Xing waited.

Xu Xing explained the ancient methods of Foundation Establishment to Zhang Yunlu and advised her to report her rapid progress to school. After they left, a young man entered the mall to gather supplies under orders from a Dao Integration Old Devil who had targeted him.

• Zhang Yunlu met Xu Xing at the mall and asked whether he had caused the visions that had accompanied her rise to the ninth level of Qi Refining.
• Xu Xing gave Zhang Yunlu a Storage Ring and began explaining her next steps toward Foundation Establishment.
• Zhang Yunlu described modern Foundation Establishment grades, and Xu Xing contrasted them with external-aid, Heaven-Forged, and Creation Dao Foundations.
• Xu Xing told Zhang Yunlu to report her cultivation level to school, noting that its teachings might be intended to keep students from reaching beyond their abilities.
• After Xu Xing and Zhang Yunlu left the mall, a young man ordered his two attendants to gather supplies because a wounded Dao Integration Old Devil had forced him to help heal its injuries.

Xu Xing gave Zhang Yunlu the Flowing Cloud Sword Technique and a formation access token, promising further cultivation resources if she pursued a Heaven-Forged Dao Foundation. Meanwhile, a Dao Integration powerhouse from the Supreme Dao Sect continued pursuing the Sword Sect cultivator who had killed his nephew, suspecting him of colluding with Demonic Cultivators.

• Fang Chi met Zhang Yunlu and Xu Xing at the mall, and Zhang Yunlu explained that her teacher had treated her coldly after she refused to attend his cram school.
• Xu Xing asked whether Zhang Yunlu wanted Fang Chi to pay a price, and she admitted that she did before he took her back to his villa.
• Xu Xing taught Zhang Yunlu the Flowing Cloud Sword Technique, gave her a formation access token, and told her to return after reporting her realm at school.
• Zhang Yunlu encountered her brother Zhang Xiu outside the villa, and he said he had come to submit a report about the cultivator who emerged from seclusion.
• A Dao Integration powerhouse from the Supreme Dao Sect told True Person Xiaoning that he suspected the Sword Sect cultivator of colluding with Demonic Cultivators and plotting to refine a Ten Thousand Soul Banner.

The chapter explained how the Ancient Cultivator Response Department was established after Saint Emperor Abyss exposed the Joyous Union Sect’s cover-up of three million deaths. Later, Zhang Xiu gave Zhang Yunlu a mysterious Red Jade left by their parents, and she discovered that it restored her spiritual power.

• True Person Xiaoning finished his mission and left to report back, while the Dao Integration expert could not persuade him to stay.
• An ancient cultivator from the Joyous Union Sect drained the essence of a city of three million people, and a Dao Integration cultivator helped conceal the massacre.
• Rogue Cultivators found images from a camera left in the city, and Saint Emperor Abyss used them to expose the crime.
• Three Immortal Sects confronted the Joyous Union Sect, which punished those responsible and agreed to compensate the victims’ families.
• The Ancient Cultivator Response Department was established with independent, regularly rotated staff across Immortal Sect and Righteous Alliance territories.
• Zhang Xiu gave Zhang Yunlu the Red Jade their parents had left for her, and she found that it quickly restored her depleted spiritual power.

Zhang Yunlu mastered the first move of the Flowing Cloud Sword Technique with the Red Jade’s help, then woke in a strange space and fought a deadly sword phantom. Xu Xing recognized her combat talent and decided to help her forge a Heaven-Forged Dao Foundation as Zhang Xiu broke into his villa and came face to face with him.

• Zhang Yunlu used the Red Jade’s warmth to master the first move of the Flowing Cloud Sword Technique and decided to ask Xu Xing about her parents’ deaths.
• Zhang Yunlu dreamed she was trapped in a gray space and had to fight a ninth-level Qi Refining sword cultivator using the Flowing Cloud Sword Technique.
• The phantom killed Zhang Yunlu after she nearly turned the fight around, and Xu Xing praised her combat instincts and resolved to help her forge a Heaven-Forged Dao Foundation.
• Xu Xing concealed the residential complex from a powerful Divine Sense that was searching for him.
• Zhang Xiu used the Wall-Piercing Technique to enter Xu Xing’s villa, where Xu Xing appeared and greeted him.

Xu Xing trapped Zhang Xiu and explained that the red jade held dangerous blood connected to his parents’ deaths, while revealing his plans to train Zhang Yunlu. Meanwhile, Zhang Yunlu reached the final trial of Xu Xing’s brutal sword-training challenge, but her first attempt against the perfected sword cultivator ended in failure.

• Xu Xing stopped Zhang Xiu from escaping, returned the red jade to his storage ring, and said Zhang Xiu would need to reach Dao Integration to learn what the blood was.
• Xu Xing told Zhang Xiu he would help Zhang Yunlu build a Heaven-Forged Dao Foundation before she joined his Sword Sect, and said he protected younger cultivators because others had protected him.
• Zhang Yunlu recovered in the gray space and learned she had mastered the Flowing Cloud Sword Technique after nearly a hundred life-and-death battles.
• Zhang Yunlu faced the final perfected sword cultivator, charged first, and was defeated when the shadow pierced her forehead.

Zhang Yunlu repeatedly fought a sword cultivator phantom in a trial until she killed it by trading a fatal wound for a decisive strike. After waking at home with her spiritual power strengthened, she found herself instinctively drawn to her sword, alarming Zhang Xiu when he returned.

• Zhang Yunlu died repeatedly against the ninth-layer sword cultivator phantom, refining her technique and gradually inflicting heavier wounds.
• On her 102nd death, Zhang Yunlu sacrificed herself to stab the phantom in the face with her short sword, ending the trial after seven minutes and twenty-five seconds.
• Xu Xing praised Zhang Yunlu's resolve, while Zhang Xiu worried over his sister's brutal trial and recognized that it might help her endure cultivating her Heaven-Forged Dao Foundation.
• Zhang Yunlu awoke at home with surging spiritual power, drank juice, and reflected on how peaceful ordinary life felt compared with combat.
• Zhang Yunlu picked up her long sword and felt her mind settle, then smiled at Zhang Xiu when he entered; he felt unnerved by her and the sword.

Zhang Yunlu learned about the paths to Foundation Establishment and received a basic refining method from Yu Ming. She visited Xu Xing to ask whether her brutal training in the dream had been real, and he explained that it had been an illusion experienced like reality.

• Zhang Yunlu reported her Qi Refining ninth level to Yu Ming, who explained the three mainstream Foundation Establishment methods and the difficulty of the Heaven-Forged Dao Foundation.
• Yu Ming told Zhang Yunlu about the Creation Dao Foundation and gave her a crystal card containing the Basic Refining Method.
• Zhang Yunlu encountered Fang Chi in Yu Ming's office, then ignored classmates who urged her to reconcile with her teacher before the Dharma Combat Test.
• Zhang Yunlu traveled to Xu Xing's villa, hoping to prepare for the test by facing strong opponents after her dream training.
• Zhang Yunlu asked Xu Xing whether her repeated deaths and gains in the dream had been real, and he explained the art of refining the false into the real.

Xu Xing gave Zhang Yunlu a cultivation method and told her that her new sword-focused instincts would fade as she adjusted. On the morning of the Dharma Combat Test, Zhang Yunlu awaited her matches while Fang Lin and Fang Chi underestimated her.

• Xu Xing passed the Nine Qi Harvesting and Refining Method to Zhang Yunlu and reassured her that her instinct to assess others’ vital points would fade with time.
• Zhang Yunlu went to practice the Flowing Cloud Sword Technique on the rooftop, where a schoolmate learned that students and a teacher planned to target her during the Dharma Combat Test.
• Cultivators gathered at Third High School to watch the test, and Li Fengping served as one of its judges despite his bandaged face.
• Zhang Yunlu recalled defeating a ninth-level Qi Refining sword cultivator in her trial and felt anticipation as she waited for the test to begin.
• Fang Chi watched Zhang Yunlu nervously and relied on Fang Lin, the class’s strongest student and a veteran of the Starry Sky Battlefield, to handle her.

True Monarch Purple Universe watched the school’s Dharma Combat Test in hopes of finding the Sword Sect cultivator and addressing his heart demon. Outside the school, Xu Xing witnessed a yellow-haired lad get confronted by his girlfriend’s father, then headed inside to see Saint Emperor Abyss’s cultivation method.

• True Monarch Purple Universe recalled the sword cultivator who had become his heart demon and watched the school, expecting the Sword Sect cultivator might attend the Dharma Combat Test.
• A drained yellow-haired lad arrived at a barbecue shop and ordered kidney skewers while Xu Xing bought buns nearby.
• The shop owner learned that his daughter had introduced the yellow-haired lad as her boyfriend and grabbed him, demanding to know what had happened between them.
• The daughter revealed that she had joined the Joyous Union Sect, had shown the lad an illusion, and had not actually been touched by him.
• The shop owner took the yellow-haired lad inside to settle things, while Xu Xing carried his buns toward the school to check out Saint Emperor Abyss’s cultivation method.