Recaps

Yu Ci endured the Three Suns Tribulation, hostile cultivators, and Wu An’s cross-realm assault while refining the Xuan Huang Killing Sword and awakening its nascent consciousness. Xuan Huang’s Flying Immortal Sword Intent struck the root of the tribulation, but the clash severed Yu Ci’s connection to the sword and left the force beneath the magnetic mountain stirring.

• Mister Gai trapped Yu Ci in the Myriad Worlds Tomb as the Three Suns Tribulation erupted from Seven River Peak City and threatened his domain.
• Yu Ci escaped with Yang Zhu’s aid, then steered the rampaging Xuan Huang Killing Sword east as the tribulation pursued them.
• Zhu Wanxiang and Song Gongyuan’s formation pinned Yu Ci beneath the Zi Wu Magnetic Mountain, where Yu Ci refined his avatar and the Xuan Huang Sword Talisman.
• Shao Changping sealed the pit with the Soul-Leaving Cauldron’s lid, while Ancestor Gu Liang summoned Wu An through the Demon Manor Spirit Banner.
• Wu An’s turbid power disrupted Yu Ci’s refining, but Yu Ci formed a True Man Domain and resisted the assault as the Xuan Huang Killing Sword awakened a nascent consciousness.
• Yu Ci shielded the newborn consciousness from the Three Suns Tribulation and drew on the Cloud Tower Tree’s power through Guiyan and Chengqitian to steady it.
• Xuan Huang’s sword intent completed its eighth turn and rose through the strata, then its eleventh revolution struck the root of the Three Suns Tribulation.
• The Heaven and Earth Law Will redirected the tribulation fire, Yu Ci’s connection to Xuan Huang snapped, and the Soul-Leaving Cauldron’s flames went out as fiery smoke escaped its lid.

Yu Ci escaped the struggle over the Xuan Huang Killing Sword and made a pact with Ancestor Gu Liang and Xue Pingzhi before traveling to Longxiao City. While Yu Ci pursued his cultivation and helped Xue Pingzhi obtain a talisman artifact, Gui Yan investigated the deadly sea mist and joined a gathering of cultivators preparing to explore it.

• Yu Ci evaded the encirclement around the Xuan Huang Killing Sword, but the Bag Bandit tried to seize it and was decapitated by the sword.
• Qu Cheng watched Duanmu Senqiu escape and realized he had targeted the Bag Bandit, while Yu Ci broke through the talisman-array strata and carried the sword away.
• Tong Xu and six Rogue Cultivator True Persons broke the formations in pursuit, but Xue Pingzhi’s Two Forms Circle stalled them as Yu Nan and Qu Cheng confronted her.
• Yu Ci revealed his projection, and Yu Nan negotiated a ten-year blood-cursed agreement that protected Xuan Huang’s Sword Spirit and required Yu Ci to teach Xue Pingzhi.
• Yu Ci traveled with Xue Pingzhi and Yu Nan to Longxiao City, where Xue Pingzhi sought talisman masters and Yu Ci entered seclusion at Shaoyang Sword Cave.
• Xu Yang and Third Master Xu made a Heart-Piercing Thorn mold from Yu Ci’s talisman design, and Xu Yang gave Yu Ci the sword Hidden Star.
• Gui Yan investigated the deadly northern sea mist, attended Mi Tuo’s trading gathering, and acquired a Jade Talisman after trading it for a miniature underwater-world artifact.
• Gui Yan activated the Jade Talisman and joined the cultivators’ communication gathering, where Wanderer Hai Hong appeared.

Gui Yan joined the Four Seas Society, but his search for Taiyuan City drew him into the Western Sect’s Nine Palaces Demon Domain and its struggle against the Five Peaks Origin Spirit. There, he lost the Green Wolf Mountain Master, confronted Xiao Lei, and began studying the Void Divine Ability under the Demon Lords’ scrutiny.

• Hai Hong traded strange treasures, revealed evidence that Taiyuan City lay beneath the ten-thousand-mile fog, and invited Longevity True Men to join the search.
• Gui Yan obtained Hao Dian’s flawed gauze and blood-red threads, explored the ruins with Hai Hong, and learned about the Four Seas Society from Mr. Wugou and the Green Wolf Mountain Master.
• Gui Yan traveled with Mr. Wugou and the Green Wolf Mountain Master to Taiyuan City’s former site, where Jian Ziyu trapped them in her lantern illusion and Xiao Limai recruited Gui Yan into the Western Sect.
• Xiao Limai assigned Gui Yan to Bright Hall Palace in the Nine Palaces Demon Domain, where Gui Yan studied the Demon Lords’ manifestations and learned that Jian Ziyu wanted help escaping her sect.
• Demon Lord Huiyuan’s power overwhelmed Bright Hall Palace, and Gui Yan recognized Xiao Lei among the cultivators who entered the domain before suspecting that the assembled sects were targeting Little Five.
• After forty days, Gui Yan warned that the Green Wolf Mountain Master was dying, but the Four Seas Society failed to secure his release, and the Green Wolf Mountain Master died despite Gui Yan’s efforts.
• Gui Yan met the Supreme Good Demon Lord and then Xiao Lei, who questioned him about Wanqi Wuming and gave him demonic patterns to study, while warning him about Jian Ziyu.

Gui Yan used the formation and his influence over Qin Xing to resist Demon Lord Huiyuan’s power as Spirit Warding Ancestor advanced on the Nine Palaces Demon Domain. After Qin Xing became a Heavenly Demon Kin, Supreme Good Demon Lord revealed the wider struggle over the demon palaces and took Gui Yan to confront Madam Huanyong, who demanded Qin Xing’s Transcendent Demonic Seed.

• Gui Yan studied the formation’s influence and helped the cultivators attack the Sky Shuttle Tide, while he secretly protected Qin Xing from Demon Lord Huiyuan’s corruption.
• Spirit Warding Ancestor arrived with Spiritfall Birds, and Wan Mi became an injured puppet linked to the formation disk as the cultivators retreated toward the Nine Palaces Demon Domain.
• Gui Yan used the array’s void power to direct the cultivators’ attacks and kept Qin Xing fighting as Qin Xing’s longevity tribulation began.
• Gui Yan guided Qin Xing’s chaotic pearl through the Black Forest, but it shattered under the combined force of the tribulation and Demon Lord Huiyuan’s power, transforming Qin Xing into a Heavenly Demon Kin.
• You Rui recovered the Dao Intent Jade Cicada, while Demon Lord Huiyuan’s power filled Wan Mi’s puppet and revealed his dharma-form before Spirit Warding Ancestor challenged Supreme Good Demon Lord.
• Supreme Good Demon Lord told Gui Yan that major powers were arranging battles against Lu Chen and Madame Yellow Springs, and explained that Madam Huanyong sought recognition for Old Crow’s formation and control of Cave Dwelling Palace.
• Supreme Good Demon Lord led Gui Yan to Madam Huanyong, who recognized him and asked whether he had intercepted Qin Xing’s devil seed.
• Madam Huanyong demanded Qin Xing’s pure Transcendent Demonic Seed, but Gui Yan refused, and Supreme Good Demon Lord took him away and advised him to remain in Mud Pill Palace.