Recaps

Lu Zhen rose through the Mystic Sword Sect, set records on the Dragon Ascension Path, and prepared to seek the Intent Realm beyond the gray mist. At Blackwater Swamp, he joined a hunting team and was isolated by Military Shadow, who repeatedly shattered his battle body as he fought back.

• Lu Zhen defeated Su Changkong in the tournament final with the True Manual of Sword Control and won first place, then refused Jiang Li’s request to abandon the Bright God Martial Canon.
• Lu Zhen spent his contribution points on cultivation resources, used Creation Dragon Marrow to break through to mid-stage Transformation Force, and raised his strength and Dharma Body.
• Lu Zhen entered the Dragon Ascension Path, cleared the thirteenth stage, and set a new record before Yan Nantian named him the Mystic Sword Sect’s first Direct Disciple.
• Lu Zhen strengthened himself with transformed treasures, while the Myriad Stars Tower placed him tenth on the Young Dragon Rankings and Eastern Islanders set the Heaven’s Punishment plan against him.
• Lu Zhen demonstrated his third-level True Manual of Sword Control to Jiang Li and Jiang Yun, then left for the gray mist border and entrusted Fang Zhenhai with forging his saber using Innate Geng Metal Baleful Qi.
• Lu Zhen joined Iron Mountain’s team at Blackwater Swamp, helped kill a half-dragon and its demon pythons, and shared in the discovery of a Blackwater Golden-Thread Lotus.
• Military Shadow cornered Iron Mountain’s group and isolated Lu Zhen, who survived her blows and killed five Eastern Island warriors while she repeatedly shattered his golden battle body.

Lu Zhen entered the Intent Realm, took up the Faceless Asura identity, and crushed the Eastern Island invasion at Plain River and Falling Goose Slope. After surviving Chiba’s pursuit, he returned to Three Sects City as the Eight-Nation Alliance gathered and the Mount Tai Debate approached.

• Lu Zhen completed the third level of the Lesser Thousand Sword Formation, killed Military Shadow with an azure dragon of flying swords, and left for the gray mist.
• Lu Zhen followed Guga into ancient ruins, found an ancient medicinal garden, and used its transformed treasures to enter the Intent Realm and reach the Dharma Heaven Realm.
• Lu Zhen took Yaksha contracts as Faceless Asura and killed Shibata at Plain River before slaughtering Ito, Kuroda, and Kaburaki at Falling Goose Slope.
• Lu Zhen collected his bounty rewards, learned the Heavenly Gang Fiend-Invoking Secret Art, and raised it to Vein-Burning before the Eastern Island First Prince and Chiba found him.
• Lu Zhen killed the First Prince and several elders, then survived Chiba’s attacks and escaped after a day-long pursuit across thousands of li.
• Fujiwara Munehide called for an Eight-Nation Alliance, while Lu Zhen returned to Three Sects City and learned that the Mount Tai Debate would begin next month.
• Lu Zhen challenged thugs who blamed Faceless Asura for provoking the Western nations, and Guga knocked them down when their leader tried to seize her.

Lu Zhen prepared for the Mount Tai Debate, destroyed the Lin Family's conspirators, and pursued a Spirit Fusion breakthrough beneath the Azurewood Dragon Vein. After traditional martial arts suffered crushing defeats, he emerged with the Hongwu Emperor's lineage and killed Xiang Kunlun's group in one strike.

• Lu Zhen revealed his Faceless Asura identity to Jiang Li and traded profound-grade materials for spirit liquid after Pei Yuan explained the requirements for accessing the Martial God Stele.
• Jiang Li broke through to Spirit Fusion and became the Mystic Sword Sect's fourth Grand Supreme Elder while Lu Zhen strengthened his martial arts.
• Lu Zhen killed Augustus and Lin Wanhe at their hostage trap, then killed Lin Bainian and Adam and recovered a map marking three dragon vein cores.
• Lu Zhen trained the human-round team in the Iron-Blood Battle Formation and advanced his physique to the Pure Yang True Body.
• Lu Zhen entered Fallen Soul Ravine to attempt his breakthrough beneath the Azurewood Dragon Vein while Qi Biao sacrificed himself during the traditional martial artists' human-round victory.
• The Alienated Martial Arts contestants won all five earth-round fights, and Xiang Kunlun shattered the seven patriarchs' formation in the heavenly contest.
• Lu Zhen broke through to Spirit Fusion with a great sun, a Golden Crow, and an Azure Dragon Inner Landscape and declared that he would establish martial orthodoxy anew on Mount Tai.
• Lu Zhen shattered Xiang Kunlun's hammer and killed Xiang Kunlun, Duan Tianlang, Merlin, and the other six experts with one saber strike.

Lu Zhen defended the Nine Provinces from the insect swarm and the Western Martial Saints while the Council weighed whether the doomed world was worth saving. As the mutated brood nest emerged and threatened Three Sects City, Lu Zhen carried an upgraded thunderbolt into the gray mist to destroy it.

• Lu Zhen reclaimed the Divine Land’s golden fortune and revealed to Yan Nantian and Chen Kurong that Gu Chen, Lu Zhen, and the Faceless Asura were all him.
• Shi Kefa explained that the Nine Provinces faced destruction or enslavement in 150 years, and that the Hongwu Emperor and Lord Yu Qian had followed a Supreme Unity Mystic Sect disciple to try to improve its ranking.
• As the Devouring Spirit Broodmother’s swarm devastated the north, Lu Zhen rejected Pei Yuan’s offer to escape and fought to protect civilians, holding Iron Wire Valley with Nie Xingkong and the other defenders.
• Lu Zhen killed all four Insect Ancestors at Yanbei Pass and later defeated five more at Three Sects City, saving millions of refugees despite a Martial Saint ambush.
• Adams was swallowed by the mutated Broodmother, and the creature’s gray mist spread across the Northern Frontier as Fujiwara and three Western Martial Saints were devoured.
• Liu Bowen secured Council support for Lu Zhen, and Shi Kefa gave him a Thunderfire Heaven-Shaking Thunder that Lu Zhen’s settlement upgraded into a Nine Nether Annihilation Thunderbolt.
• Lu Zhen followed Guga into the gray mist, cut through the Broodmother’s tentacles, and rushed toward its core while it battered Three Sects City’s weakening barrier.