Recaps

Glazed Saint Ancestor learned of the Immortal Hall, whose Hall Master halted the threat of war between the righteous and demonic paths. Inside Water Moon Cave Heaven, Chen Changming and Liu Qingwu killed Devil Dao disciples and rescued Righteous Path cultivators before Gu Tianxie discovered something strange about the Holy Fire Token.

• The burly elder told Glazed Saint Ancestor that the Immortal Hall had subdued Eastern Jin’s righteous and demonic factions, and she dismissed its Hall Master as no match for her true body.
• The crimson-robed Immortal Hall Master rejected both sides’ claims and opposed a full-scale war, allowing the Bloody Trial’s killings to continue without taking sides.
• The Immortal Hall vanished, and Su Qingwan and Fan Feichen accepted that the Righteous Path would have to bear its losses while Ye Xuanchen and the demonic sect leaders anticipated their advantage.
• Chen Changming and Liu Qingwu killed more than three hundred Devil Dao disciples, rescued Righteous Path disciples, and sent them out of Water Moon Cave Heaven after they obtained its blessing.
• Gu Tianxie told Chen Changming that he had found something strange about the Holy Fire Token.

Chen Changming learned that the Holy Fire Tokens could drain their holders’ spiritual power, then found Black Soul Hall disciples using one to trap Red Luan Immortal Sect disciples. He rescued Ling Yu and the others, leaving the surviving Black Soul Hall disciple for Ling Yu to kill.

• Gu Tianxie warned Chen Changming that the Holy Fire Tokens contained a formation that could drain their holders’ spiritual power, and Chen told Liu Qingwu what he had learned.
• Chen Changming detected a group of Black Soul Hall disciples and flew toward them with Liu Qingwu to check whether they carried Holy Fire Tokens.
• The Black Soul Hall disciples used a Holy Fire Token to prevent Ling Yu and the Red Luan Immortal Sect disciples from leaving, then prepared to attack them.
• Chen Changming arrived and used his Divine Sense Wave Ability and golden sword lights to kill the Black Soul Hall disciples, leaving their leader dazed.
• Ling Yu struck the surviving disciple, and Chen Changming broke through his protective spiritual light so her natal Spirit Treasure could kill him.

After helping Ling Yu and the Red Luan Immortal Sect disciples escape the Water Moon Cave Heaven, Chen Changming continued slaughtering Devil Dao disciples with Liu Qingwu until they both completed the thousand-person trial. While Chen Changming recovered in a valley, disciples of the Eight Wonders Sect attacked him for a reward, and he killed them all.

• Ling Yu thanked Chen Changming for saving her, then left the Water Moon Cave Heaven with the other Red Luan Immortal Sect disciples after he warned her that it was no longer safe.
• Chen Changming collected the spoils and continued hunting Devil Dao disciples with Liu Qingwu, using his Divine Sense Wave Ability and Flying Swords to kill them.
• After three days of fighting, Chen Changming and Liu Qingwu each completed a thousand-man slaughter and earned a place in the temple within Cloud Dream Lake.
• Chen Changming rested in a secluded valley while Liu Qingwu stood guard, but more than forty Eight Wonders Sect disciples arrived and attacked him for the reward from He Changkong.
• Chen Changming incapacitated the Eight Wonders Sect disciples with a divine sense attack and wounded them with his sword formation, then ignored their pleas and killed them all.

Chen Changming spent the Bloody Trial killing demonic-path disciples and rescuing righteous-path cultivators, while the leaders outside Water Moon Cave Heaven believed their plans were succeeding. When the trial ended, the survivors gathered at the azure temple, where Chen Changming surveyed the crowd and noticed the demonic factions’ dominance among high-level cultivators.

• Chen Changming killed the Eight Wonders Sect disciples, collected their spoils, and continued hunting with Liu Qingwu.
• Chen Changming wiped out a force of more than a hundred Profound Yin Demon Court disciples, then spent the following days killing demonic-path groups and hostile righteous-path disciples while saving others.
• Ye Xuanchen and the other sect leaders celebrated the apparent success of their plans as returning disciples reported Chen Shan’s rescues and strength.
• After thirty days, the trial transported everyone with at least a thousand kills, randomly selected some others, and sent the remaining survivors out.
• Chen Changming and Liu Qingwu appeared at opposite ends of the plaza before an azure temple, and Chen Changming observed that demonic disciples made up over seventy percent of the high-level cultivators.

Chen Changming watched the Water Moon Great God’s Divine Light raise the cultivators’ power, but the Holy Fire Tokens suddenly drained the Devil Dao disciples and disrupted the temple’s formation. The light vanished, mana became usable again, and Gu Tianxie suspected something powerful was sealed beneath Cloud Dream Lake.

• Liu Qingwu reached the temple plaza, and Chen Changming congratulated her before the Water Moon Great God’s temple doors opened.
• The Water Moon Great God’s statue awakened and bathed the cultivators in Divine Light, raising the Human Zone disciples before the Earth Zone and Heaven Zone disciples.
• Holy Fire Tokens on Profound Yin Demon Court, Yinluo Sect, and Black Soul Hall disciples began devouring their mana and caused the Divine Light to snap back into the temple.
• Chen Changming summoned Gu Tianxie, who sensed that the formation had been disrupted and that everyone in the plaza could use mana again.
• Gu Tianxie traced the Holy Fire Tokens’ fluctuations toward Cloud Dream Lake and warned that something formidable might be sealed there.

Chen Changming and the righteous disciples slaughtered the demonic forces gathered in the square, while Gu Tianxie investigated Cloud Dream Lake. At the lakebed, a sealed Red-Clad Man broke free and awakened.

• The demonic disciples prepared to attack the righteous cultivators, but Chen Changming struck them with a powerful mental assault, allowing the righteous disciples to kill them; the Demon Heaven Clan fled.
• Chen Changming kept the remaining demonic disciples dazed as the righteous forces finished them off and collected their Storage Rings.
• Chen Changming watched the temple and Cloud Dream Lake while Gu Tianxie entered the lake to investigate.
• Righteous disciples argued over Chen Shan, with Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect and Red Luan Immortal Sect disciples defending him and a Beast Taming Immortal Sect disciple accusing him of being a traitor.
• Gu Tianxie found a scarred Red-Clad Man sealed at the lakebed with a nine-colored flower growing from his body.
• The seal shattered, blasting the Rotten-Leaf Black Earthworm away and knocking Gu Tianxie and Gu Linglong unconscious as the Red-Clad Man awoke.

Chen Changming exposed the Eight Wonders Sect disciple’s plot to kill him and helped slaughter the hostile righteous-sect disciples on the plaza. As he prepared to collect the spoils, a red light flew from Cloud Dream Lake and struck his brow, leaving him dazed.

• The Eight Wonders Sect disciple blamed Chen Shan for Water Moon Great God withholding divine light and secretly urged other disciples to kill him.
• Dozens of Eight Wonders Sect disciples activated an array to block the plaza’s teleportation power and prepared to attack Chen Changming.
• Chen Changming unleashed a Divine Sense Wave, then used seventy-two Flying Swords to kill the array’s Eight Wonders Sect disciples.
• Chen Changming and the Red Luan Immortal Sect disciples slaughtered the hostile disciples from the righteous sects and other factions.
• A red light left the Red-Clad Man’s corpse at the bottom of Cloud Dream Lake and struck Chen Changming between the brows, leaving him blank-faced.

Chen Changming survived the Red-Clad Man’s attempt to possess him, then faced the Water Moon Great God, who mistook him for an ancient enemy. Gu Linglong stopped her from killing him, and the Water Moon Great God regained her senses and discovered the Red-Clad Man’s soul was gone.

• A red light entered Chen Changming’s brow, but a mysterious substance inside him devoured the Red-Clad Man’s soul before it could possess him.
• The Water Moon Great God manifested from her statue, suppressed the plaza, and approached Chen Changming while calling him an ancient enemy.
• Chen Changming asked the Water Moon Great God to spare the other disciples, and she knocked everyone else unconscious.
• Gu Linglong emerged from the lake and appealed to the Water Moon Great God as a descendant of her clan, stopping her attack and helping her recover her memories.
• The Water Moon Great God scanned Chen Changming, found the Red-Clad Man’s soul missing, and Chen Changming said he had defeated him.

Chen Changming learned about the powerful Ancient Immortals and how the Water Ancient Gods sealed Fire Radiance Immortal. After shattering Fire Radiance Immortal’s soul, Chen Changming received a Nine-Colored Immortal Spirit Flower that could help him break into the Void Refinement Realm.

• Water Moon Great God explained that the Ancient Immortals appeared after the Six Ancients’ battle with Mo Lihai and surpassed the Six Ancients in individual combat.
• Chen Changming revealed that a mysterious existence inside him had shattered Fire Radiance Immortal’s divine soul.
• Water Moon Great God said the Water Ancient Gods had sealed Fire Radiance Immortal in Water Moon Cave Heaven after the Fire Ancient God became their enemy.
• Water Moon Great God thanked Chen Changming on behalf of her clan and gave him the Nine-Colored Immortal Spirit Flower and Fire Radiance Immortal’s corpse.
• Water Moon Great God explained that the other Ancient Immortals had hurriedly ascended to the Spirit Realm, leaving Fire Radiance Immortal behind.

Water Moon Great God explained the Ancient Immortals’ mysterious ascension and raised Gu Linglong, Gu Tianxie, Chen Changming, and the other survivors to Spirit Transformation. Chen Changming emerged from Water Moon Cave Heaven as a lightning tribulation gathered overhead, while the demonic sects’ leaders wondered why their disciples had not returned.

• Water Moon Great God told Chen Changming that the Ancient Immortals could communicate with the Heavenly Dao, which erased knowledge of them, and said she might lose her memories before the cave heaven opened again in five hundred years.
• Water Moon Great God raised Gu Linglong and Gu Tianxie’s divine-soul cultivation to the tenth level of Spirit Transformation, drawing on the souls of Water Ancient God clan members within Cloud Dream Lake.
• Water Moon Great God fulfilled her agreement with Chen Changming, sending blue light through the temple that awakened the crowd and raised everyone’s cultivation to the first level of Spirit Transformation.
• Water Moon Great God sent Chen Changming out of Water Moon Cave Heaven, where he reunited with the outside world carrying an ancient immortal corpse and the Nine-Colored Immortal Spirit Flower.
• Ye Xuanchen, Fan Feichen, Dugu Qiujian, and He Changkong reacted to the returning disciples and the absence of demonic and Beast Taming Immortal Sect disciples; Chen Changming looked up as his Spirit Transformation lightning tribulation approached.

Chen Changming survived his Spirit Transformation tribulation and told the gathered righteous and demonic sect masters that the Holy Fire Tokens had released a sealed being in Water Moon Cave Heaven. He claimed he had protected the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect and Red Luan Immortal Sect disciples, leaving the sect masters demanding answers.

• Chen Changming used his seventy-two natal flying swords to break apart the lightning bolts of his heavenly tribulation.
• Ye Xuanchen and the demonic sect masters discovered that the Heaven Zone disciples carrying Holy Fire Tokens had all died inside Water Moon Cave Heaven.
• After the tribulations ended, Fan Feichen congratulated Chen Changming, and Chen Changming secretly directed Liu Qingwu to find Li Zizai.
• The sect masters gathered around Chen Changming and demanded to know why only disciples from his sect and the Red Luan Immortal Sect had emerged alive.
• Chen Changming blamed the Holy Fire Tokens for draining the demonic disciples and releasing a sealed being, then said he had protected the disciples of the two surviving sects.

Chen Changming defended his choice to protect only the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect and Red Luan Immortal Sect disciples, then returned safely to the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect. Qiu Zhenyun gave him a fused cultivation art and Fan Feichen presented him with the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Formula.

• Chen Changming revealed 144 life-bound flying swords and explained that his sword formation had protected the disciples of two sects during the battle.
• Chen Changming rebuked He Changkong and Ye Xuanchen, while the righteous sect masters blamed the demonic path for the Bloody Trial; Ye Xuanchen then left with the demonic sect masters.
• Su Qingwan thanked Chen Changming and promised to protect Liu Qingwu, while Fan Feichen praised his courage and laughed with him.
• Fan Feichen and Chen Changming returned to the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect, where Qiu Zhenyun congratulated Chen Changming on reaching the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Qiu Zhenyun gave Chen Changming a Jade Slip containing the fused Golden Origin Unification Art and Mountain-Suppressing Primordial Unity Art, and Fan Feichen gave him the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Formula.

Chen Changming learned about the fused Mountain-Suppressing Primordial Unity Art before Guan Lin arrived with news that Yuan Jingyang and the Medicine Sect elders were being drained of their lifespans by a God Spirit Reed in the Illusion Star Sea. Chen Changming secretly prepared his true body to travel with Guan Lin, leaving the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect without drawing notice.

• Fan Feichen told Chen Changming to study the fused cultivation art and sword technique, while he and Qiu Zhenyun praised Chen Shan's power and worried the sect's secret might be exposed.
• Chen Changming examined the Mountain-Suppressing Primordial Unity Art and considered whether to cultivate it with his avatar or merge the avatar into his main body.
• Guan Lin visited Chen Changming and said Yuan Jingyang and the other Medicine Sect elders were trapped by a God Spirit Reed that was draining their lifespans at a base in the Illusion Star Sea.
• Chen Changming agreed to go help and left Guan Lin waiting in a valley while he returned to Azure Spirit Cave.
• Chen Changming's true body changed into an elder's robes, took the Rotten-Leaf Black Earthworm and its demigod souls, then secretly rejoined Guan Lin.

Chen Changming and Guan Lin traveled to Western Heaven Province and used an ancient teleportation array to return to the Illusion Star Sea. At a Medicine Sect base beneath the sea, they found Yuan Jingyang near death and confronted the God Spirit Reed.

• Chen Changming concealed his identity, hid Guan Lin in the Universe Pagoda, and flew with the Snow Feather Ice Sparrow to Western Heaven Province.
• Guan Lin guided Chen Changming to a hidden Medicine Sect Underground Palace, where they activated an ancient teleportation array to the Illusion Star Sea.
• Guan Lin led Chen Changming to an underwater Medicine Sect base, where a golden cattail tree had split open the palace.
• Chen Changming found Yuan Jingyang barely alive in a Blood Pool among numerous corpses and hid Guan Lin in the Universe Pagoda.
• Chen Changming destroyed the God Spirit Reed's Cattail Flowers and used the Spring Return Immortal Art to heal Yuan Jingyang.
• Yuan Jingyang warned Chen Changming that the God Spirit Reed was a level-twelve mid-stage Beast, but Chen Changming declared that his disciple should not be underestimated.

Chen Changming rescued Yuan Jingyang from the God Spirit Reed and tried to form a pact with the rogue Sacred Beast, but the Spirit-Locking Pact failed. He revealed that he was already a Medicine Sect disciple and hinted that he had cultivated other Sacred Beasts, leaving Yuan Jingyang eager to see what he had brought forth.

• Chen Changming severed the root draining Yuan Jingyang's life and used the Spring Return Immortal Art to restore him while suppressing the God Spirit Reed.
• Chen Changming revealed that the powerful body Yuan Jingyang had seen before was his cultivation avatar, and Yuan Jingyang realized his disciple was extraordinarily strong.
• Yuan Jingyang explained that the God Spirit Reed had retained its original body's memories and betrayed the Medicine Sect, leaving their disciples dead.
• Chen Changming attempted to pact with the God Spirit Reed using nine Golden Heaven Locks, but the locks snapped and the pact failed.
• Chen Changming told Yuan Jingyang he was already a Medicine Sect disciple and confirmed he had cultivated other Sacred Beasts, then summoned a ball of mysterious black light.

Chen Changming used his Demon Spirit Vine to subdue the God Spirit Reed and persuade it to accept a contract. After contracting it and retrieving its roots and Cattail Flowers from Yuan Jingyang, Chen Changming suggested celebrating with his master in Illusion Star Sea.

• Chen Changming summoned his level-twelve, three-origin Demon Spirit Vine, astonishing Yuan Jingyang and intimidating the God Spirit Reed.
• Chen Changming threatened to destroy the God Spirit Reed unless it agreed to be contracted, while the Demon Spirit Vine explained how Chen Changming had raised it from a dying sapling.
• The God Spirit Reed agreed to become Chen Changming's Demon Pet and transformed into a golden-haired woman.
• Chen Changming successfully contracted the God Spirit Reed, which then retrieved its roots and Cattail Flowers from Yuan Jingyang's body.
• Yuan Jingyang celebrated with Chen Changming, who proposed that they go to Illusion Star Sea to drink.

Chen Changming reunited with his master, Yuan Jingyang, and learned that his disciple Mo Lengyao had been captured by the Demon Sacrificial Sect. The two set off to confront the sect and rescue her.

• Chen Changming and Yuan Jingyang surfaced near Mystic Ice Island and traveled to Dragon-Driving City for a drink.
• Chen Changming offered Yuan Jingyang five bottles of Human Origin Great Pills, and Yuan Jingyang accepted two to extend his life.
• Chen Changming overheard that Elder Yu of the Demon Sacrificial Sect was marrying Miaoyin Mountain’s master the next day.
• Chen Changming learned that Elder Yu had captured Mo Lengyao, his disciple, and forced the tavern patrons to reveal what they knew.
• Yuan Jingyang joined Chen Changming in setting out to confront the Demon Sacrificial Sect.

Chen Changming and Yuan Jingyang attacked the Demon Sacrificial Sect to rescue Mo Lengyao, whom Yu Changtian had imprisoned and planned to force into dual cultivation. Chen Changming reached Mo Lengyao through the sect’s Mountain-Guarding Formation, while Yuan Jingyang stayed behind to confront the sect’s cultivators.

• Chen Changming and Yuan Jingyang arrived at the Demon Sacrificial Sect, and Chen Changming shook its Mountain-Guarding Formation to draw out its Nascent Soul experts.
• Yu Changtian confronted Chen Changming, who seized him through the air and demanded that the sect hand over Mo Lengyao.
• The sect master ordered an elder to bring Mo Lengyao, and Chen Changming told her he had come too late before releasing Yu Changtian.
• The Demon Sacrificial Sect’s leaders ordered their cultivators to attack, while Yuan Jingyang stayed to examine their sacrificial demons.
• Chen Changming tore open the Mountain-Guarding Formation and appeared beside Mo Lengyao, crushing the elder holding her beneath an immense force.

Chen Changming rescued Mo Lengyao from the Demon Sacrificial Sect, killed Yu Changtian and the sect’s high-ranking experts, and revealed that he had reached Spirit Transformation. He brought Mo Lengyao and Yuan Jingyang back to Miaoyin Mountain, where two women welcomed them.

• Chen Changming rescued Mo Lengyao, restored her vitality, and gave her Human Origin Great Pills to replace the lifespan Yu Changtian had stolen.
• Chen Changming shattered the Demon Sacrificial Sect’s Mountain-Guarding Formation and restrained its fleeing experts.
• Chen Changming let Mo Lengyao kill Yu Changtian, then killed the Demon Sacrificial Sect’s high-ranking experts when its sect master begged for mercy.
• Chen Changming confirmed to Mo Lengyao that he had reached Spirit Transformation, and Yuan Jingyang welcomed her as his disciple’s grandmaster and gave her a meeting gift.
• Chen Changming, Mo Lengyao, and Yuan Jingyang returned to Miaoyin Mountain, where two women flew out to greet them.

Chen Changming found the Ice and Snow Palace abandoned and learned that a Star Palace master had captured Gu Huaibei and disbanded the sect. He resolved to rescue her from Star Palace, despite learning its two masters could fight together at the third level of Spirit Transformation.

• Qin Xiang'er and Wang Ziwei met Chen Changming and Yuan Jingyang, and Mo Lengyao introduced Chen as her Spirit Transformation master.
• Yuan Jingyang suggested bringing Mo Lengyao, Qin Xiang'er, and Wang Ziwei back to Eastern Jin, while Chen Changming left Miaoyin Mountain to visit Gu Huaibei.
• Chen Changming found Ice and Snow Palace in ruins and discovered Xiao Jiumei and Guo Lingyun still waiting on Thirteenth Peak.
• Xiao Jiumei told Chen Changming that a Star Palace master had captured Gu Huaibei and disbanded Ice and Snow Palace years earlier.
• Guo Lingyun revealed that Gu Huaibei was being held in Star Palace's heavenly prison, and warned Chen Changming that its two masters could join forces against a third-level Spirit Transformation expert.

Chen Changming returned to the Illusion Star Sea and set out with Guo Lingyun and Xiao Jiumei to rescue their master, promising to take them to the Cultivation Continent. After learning the Flood Dragon King had survived the Immortal Sealing List fragment’s shock, Chen Changming went to the Chaos Beast Abyss to confront him, accompanied by the Cold Nether Spider and the Spider King.

• Chen Changming told Guo Lingyun and Xiao Jiumei that he had reached Spirit Transformation in the Cultivation Continent and promised to take them there after rescuing their master.
• Chen Changming rode the Snow Feather Ice Sparrow with the two women toward the Chaos Beast Abyss, then left them waiting while he descended into the abyss.
• The Cold Nether Spider met Chen Changming and reported that the Flood Dragon King had survived the Immortal Sealing List fragment’s shock.
• Chen Changming revealed that his body cultivation had reached the second layer of Spirit Transformation, while the Cold Nether Spider had become an early-stage tenth-level Beast.
• The Cold Nether Spider brought Chen Changming to the Spider King, who agreed to accompany them to find the Flood Dragon King.

Chen Changming killed the Flood Dragon King and recovered an Immortal Sealing List fragment before heading toward Illusion Star Palace to rescue Gu Huaibei. The chapter left Gu Huaibei enduring decades of soul-burning torture in the Star Sea Heavenly Prison as a prisoner taunted Chen Changming.

• Chen Changming confronted the Flood Dragon King, who refused to return his treasure, and subdued him with one hand.
• Chen Changming killed the Flood Dragon King and retrieved an Immortal Sealing List fragment from the blood mist.
• Chen Changming bid farewell to the Spider King, took the Cold Nether Spider with him, and teleported away.
• Chen Changming flew toward Illusion Star Palace on the Snow Feather Ice Sparrow while thinking of Gu Huaibei and cursing the Star Palace Master.
• In the Star Sea Heavenly Prison, Gu Huaibei endured the Nether Blue Divine Flame burning her soul as an old prisoner mocked Chen Changming.

Chen Changming broke into the Star Sea Heavenly Prison and rescued Gu Huaibei, healing her after years of torture. Gu Huaibei reunited with her disciples, then turned her attention to a nearby cell.

• Gu Huaibei insisted that Chen Bai would return despite the disheveled-haired old man's taunts and the other prisoners' mockery.
• Chen Changming arrived at the Star Sea Heavenly Prison with Guo Lingyun and Xiao Jiumei, killed the guards who blocked them, and shattered the prison's formation and gates.
• Chen Changming killed a black-robed prisoner who threatened Guo Lingyun and Xiao Jiumei, then found Gu Huaibei in a cell and freed her.
• Chen Changming healed Gu Huaibei's soul and body with the Spring Return Immortal Art, and she recognized him as Chen Bai.
• Gu Huaibei reunited tearfully with Guo Lingyun and Xiao Jiumei, then looked sharply toward a neighboring cell.

Chen Changming rescued Gu Huaibei from the Star Sea Heavenly Prison and killed the prisoners who had tormented her. The Illusion Star Palace’s two masters confronted him outside the prison, hoping to capture him and learn where he had been cultivating.

• Chen Changming and Gu Huaibei killed the prisoners who had bullied her, and Chen Changming revealed he had reached the second level of the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• A cultivator reported the prison breach to Star Yuan and Star River, who went to investigate and set up the Nine-Curve Star River Array.
• Star Yuan and Star River recognized Chen Changming and decided to take him alive to learn about the ancient teleportation array and the place it led to.
• Chen Changming sent Gu Huaibei, her master, and her disciple into the Universe Pagoda before facing the two palace masters.

Chen Changming confronted Star River and Star Yuan, the two Illusion Star Palace masters, and tested their combined body-and-Dao combat style. He remained uninjured after Star River’s full attack, leaving the palace masters shocked.

• Chen Changming faced Star River and Star Yuan and invited them to seek revenge now that he had reached Spirit Transformation.
• Star River attacked with a giant hand of starlight, and Chen Changming shattered it while pretending to be knocked back.
• Star Yuan launched three natal flying swords, but Chen Changming broke through the sword shadows and struck one sword aside.
• Star River revealed his second-level Spirit Transformation body cultivation and charged Chen Changming while his three swords attacked from different directions.
• Chen Changming met Star River’s punch directly and took the full barrage of sword phantoms without suffering any injury.