Recaps

Xu Xing settled in Mystic Sword City, helped Zhang Yunlu advance her cultivation, and guided her through a brutal dream trial. As Zhang Yunlu prepared for the Dharma Combat Test, Xu Xing headed to the school to investigate Saint Emperor Abyss’s cultivation method.

• Xu Xing entered Mystic Sword City, explored its powerful formation, and met Zhang Yunlu before the city’s protection was reversed into a Soul-Suppressing Formation.
• True Person Xiaoning defeated a demonic cultivator with Void-Evil-Breaking Sword Qi, while Xu Xing left Zhang Yunlu and settled into a villa under the alias Xu Sandao.
• Xu Xing joined Li Fengping and Jiang Jing to investigate a mountain Secret Realm, where he shattered a Sword Qi strike and later learned the Sword Sect had identified his alias.
• Xu Xing met Zhang Yunlu at Moon Pavilion, gave her a Storage Ring, and taught her the Flowing Cloud Sword Technique as she advanced to the ninth level of Qi Refining.
• Xu Xing promised Zhang Xiu he would help Zhang Yunlu form a Heaven-Forged Dao Foundation, then put her through repeated lethal battles against a sword cultivator phantom.
• Zhang Yunlu endured 102 deaths in the dream trial, mastered the Flowing Cloud Sword Technique, and began preparing for her school’s Dharma Combat Test.
• Zhang Yunlu learned about Foundation Establishment methods from Yu Ming and received the Nine Qi Harvesting and Refining Method from Xu Xing before the test.
• Xu Xing encountered a yellow-haired lad caught up in a misunderstanding involving a Joyous Union Sect illusion, then carried buns toward the school to investigate Saint Emperor Abyss’s cultivation method.

Xu Xing guided Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu through cultivation, while Xiao Fan received a mysterious chance to rebuild his path. The arc left Zhang Yunlu advancing through trials and Xiao Fan facing a new, uncertain opportunity.

• Xu Xing retrieved the Basic Refining Method as Zhang Yunlu won the central arena, while Chi Jiuyu uncovered a demonic laboratory and Xu Xing helped bring its survivors to justice.
• Zhang Yunlu defeated Fang Lin and won the Dharma Combat Test, while True Monarch Purple Universe gave her the Purple Enclosure Qi Observation Method.
• Xu Xing brought Chi Jiuyu to his villa, where she sparred with Zhang Yunlu and helped her develop her swordsmanship, and Chi Jiuyu also learned her master wanted information about Saint Emperor Abyss.
• Chi Jiuyu endured Xu Xing’s Nascent Soul-level sword trials, then visited the Exotic Beast Park with him and sent photos to her master.
• Xiao Fan opened a jade box that attacked his Dao Foundation, but a mysterious figure healed him and said he had gained power from the foreign race.
• Zhang Yunlu advanced through the trials, while Xu Xing and Huo discussed Saint Emperor Abyss and the coming competition among promising cultivators.
• Xiao Fan quit his job and encountered a mysterious man who bought every souvenir in a shop, then Senior Confusion appeared and gave him a storage ring.

Xu Xing’s trials tested Mystic Sword City’s cultivators while Xiao Fan’s Cang Race blood and growing powers stirred new dangers. As Zhang Yunlu completed her cultivation method and Chi Jiuyu prepared the Third Trial, a Secret Realm entered reality and the story left the city on the eve of the trial.

• Xiao Fan used the Dan-Hua Cup to collect Sun-View Cinnabar Dawn, while Li Qingyang entered the Secret Realm, sensed Sword Peak’s power, and bowed to the Red Moon.
• Xu Xing brought Chi Jiuyu to the Secret Realm to nourish her Life-Bound Sword, while cultivators across Mystic Sword City began the trial that would advance the top three thousand.
• Lin Qiuxian topped the first-round rankings, but a powerful phantom killed him when he challenged it, as Zhang Yunlu began the painful Harvesting and Refining Method.
• The second trial raised the difficulty to match each participant, and Lin Qiuxian completed the Seven Emotions Sword Canon while Xiao Fan earned the Clarify My Origin Method.
• Xiao Ming recovered after passing the second trial, but Xiao Fan’s Cang Race blood and the sinister scripture continued to shape his cultivation as he learned to command animal spirits.
• Xu Xing and Confusion transformed the Secret Realm, and Chi Jiuyu delivered an application for the Third Trial as a vast Secret Realm appeared above Mystic Sword City.
• Zhang Yunlu completed the Harvesting and Refining Method but postponed joining the Sword Sect, while Xu Xing prepared to start the Third Trial and return to his sect.
• Cultivators and livestreamers gathered to watch the Secret Realm before the trial, while Han Yun’s paper decoy burned to ash after he left the plaza.

Zhang Yunlu won the third-round trial after comprehending the Principle of Peril, while Xiao Fan was rescued from the Cang Race Ancestor’s possession. She joined the Sword Sect, where Bie Xuening began considering her for a future trial as Xu Xing remembered his master’s sacrifice.

• At Mystic Sword City, the Secret Realm trial began and transported participants, including Xiao Fan and Zhang Yunlu, into a realm filled with Mystic Profound Grass Monsters.
• Zhang Yunlu defeated Yu Ming and began to Comprehend the Logic, while Xiao Fan gathered the monsters and killed Xiao Ming under the Cang Race Ancestor’s possession.
• Zhang Yunlu faced the possessed Xiao Fan, embraced the Principle of Peril, and nearly severed his head before Gu and Xu Xing intervened and ended the time freeze.
• Confusion revealed that the Cang Race Ancestor had possessed Xiao Fan, and Xiao Fan became Confusion’s disciple to suppress his Cang Race bloodline.
• Zhang Yunlu defeated the remaining contenders, including Lin Qiuxian, and won the trial as the Red Moon announced its end.
• Xu Xing invited Zhang Yunlu to join the Sword Sect, gave her the first-place reward, and brought her to meet her brother before taking her to the sect.
• Zhang Yunlu joined Chi Jiuyu’s Future Sect Master Alliance team and began her Sword Sect enrollment, while Zhang Xiu told her he had reached Spirit Transformation and planned to join the Dragon-Elephant Heaven-Supporting Sect.
• Xu Xing remembered his master’s sacrifice, and Bie Xuening said she would observe Zhang Yunlu and arrange a trial after she reached Foundation Establishment.