Recaps

Jiang Ning helped Wang Qingtan escape her arranged marriage, grew closer to her, and returned with her to Dongling after winning the provincial martial examination. There he prepared to confront the rising sect threat while strengthening his martial arts and delaying a meeting with the Water-Moon Sword Palace.

• Wang Qingtan brought Jiang Ning her father’s marriage proposal, and they agreed to wait three years before deciding, while Jiang Ning accepted her Glazed Treasure Flame and gold for his cultivation.
• Jiang Ning broke through Literacy’s limit, awakened the Heavenly Eye, and freed a disciple of Lingbao Tianzun from the Ice Coffin before she vanished into deeper layers of space.
• Bai Hesong apologized to Jiang Ning after learning he was a Heaven-Man Grandmaster, while Lu Zhao backed away from pressuring Wang Qingtan and chose to befriend Jiang Ning.
• Jiang Ning won first place in the provincial martial examination, and Wang Qingtan chose to spend the night with him before they left Guangning City together.
• Jiang Ning returned to Dongling with Wang Qingtan and Lü Yi, reunited with his family, and reported to Zhao Yulong as the Heaven-Answering Alliance expanded its campaign against independent sects.
• Jiang Ning broke through Five Animals Fist and Water-Fire True Force, then fought a mysterious Grandmaster who attacked Zhao Yulong and discovered through his Heavenly Eye that the cloaked assailant was an older woman.
• Jiang Ning received Xiao Emei’s request for help against the Five Swords Sect’s seizure of Water-Moon Sword Palace businesses, but told her to wait while he advanced his martial arts further.

Jiang Ning used his growing power to bring rain to drought-stricken lands, expose hoarded grain, and destroy the Five Swords Sect after it attacked his allies. At the Water-Moon Sword Palace, he received a goddess’s gift, but the goddess rejected Wang Qingtan as an inheritor because of her familiar aura.

• Linglong awakened her bloodline, brought rain to Dongling Commandery at Jiang Ning’s command, and proclaimed herself the Nu River Dragon God, ending living sacrifices along the river.
• Jiang Ning advanced his cultivation, then allied with Xiao Emei and the Water-Moon Sword Palace in exchange for half its wealth and income for ten years.
• Jiang Ning went to Stone Mountain County, exposed the God-Worship Cult’s human flesh and the Xu and Mu families’ hidden grain, then helped Bai Luoyu restore order and relieve the famine.
• Jiang Ning used his power to bring rain to Stone Mountain County and exposed the Five Swords Sect’s attack during the Xu and Mu families’ executions, killing Yang Zhenchuan’s attempt and preserving evidence for a later confrontation.
• Jiang Ning confronted the Five Swords Sect at its mountain gate, killed an elder, captured Yang, and defeated the Supreme Elder after the sect refused to answer for its attack.
• Jiang Ning destroyed the Five Swords Sect, captured He Chang Kong and other disciples, seized its treasury, and ordered rewards for his fighters and compensation for the dead.
• Jiang Ning received a goddess’s gift that strengthened his Yin God, then tested Wang Qingtan’s identity before bringing her to the goddess statue.
• The woman in the lakeside vision told Jiang Ning that Wang Qingtan could not receive her inheritance because she carried a familiar aura.

Jiang Ning destroyed the forces threatening him, brought Divine Sword Manor under his control, and improved his martial arts before traveling to Yang Lake. As factions gathered around the secret Grotto-Heaven, he gained Spatial Resonance and prepared to enter, while the Human Emperor Sword and growing unrest remained unresolved.

• Jiang Ning completed major breakthroughs in his body, water affinity, and Wind-Thunder Steps, then killed Shangguan Guyun, Spirit Serpent Gentleman, Xiao Hongyuan, and Water-Blue Fairy Aunt when they ambushed him.
• Jiang Ning returned to Dongling City, reunited with Jiang Li and Liu Wanwan, and rallied allies to attack Divine Sword Manor before it could move its resources.
• Jiang Ning plundered Divine Sword Manor’s treasury and defeated Shangguan Feilong and Sun Ming, forcing the manor to surrender and claiming its spirit sword, Sword Nine.
• Jiang Ning gave Sword Nine to Xie Xiaoj iu, advanced his saber arts and solar-term concepts, and accepted the Shangguan Family’s allegiance after Shangguan Feilong and Shangguan Jincheng pledged themselves to him.
• Jiang Ning left Divine Sword Manor for Yang Lake, visited Wang Jin and other acquaintances, and discovered the Human Emperor Sword inside the White Horned Dragon at Luo Water Lake.
• At Yang Lake, Jiang Ning met Zhong Yue and Zhong Ling, learned about the factions gathering for the Grotto-Heaven, and heard that the Vermilion Bird Envoy planned to attack him inside it.
• Jiang Ning broke through Wind-Thunder Steps aboard Zhong Yue’s ship and gained Spatial Resonance, drawing a warning from a Golden Light Temple monk and meeting Jin Chan and his martial uncle.
• Jiang Ning considered pursuing his sixth blood exchange, left Zhong Ling asleep without waking her, and studied the missing fragments needed to complete the Springtime Canon.

Jiang Ning entered Upper Yang Grotto-Heaven to cultivate and survive its trials, defeating rival contestants while gathering treasures and forging Divine Bones. After becoming the sole remaining participant, he returned to the outside world and completed his bone tempering and sixth blood replacement, discovering Divine Radiance in his blood.

• Jiang Ning entered Upper Yang Grotto-Heaven, gathered solar-rich plants and ores, and advanced his Inner Elixir Life-Nourishing Technique until he awakened a Pure Yang Body.
• Jiang Ning crossed the Profound Yin Sea, found Heavenly Yang in a volcanic crater, and forged Divine Bones while fighting Wang Yuan, Ge Xian’er, Xu Ming, and Xie Yang.
• Jiang Ning cut down the Fire-Bathed Divine Tree and left the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, and Vermilion Bird Envoys to die in the night’s yin wind, then broke through his technique with the tree’s heartwood.
• Jiang Ning and Long Xiaofeng became the final contestants after Long Xiaofeng defeated Xie Yang, and Jiang Ning then beat Long Xiaofeng with a single punch to claim the Grotto-Heaven’s true disciple token.
• Jiang Ning collected Earthly Baleful Yin Stones, continued tempering his bones, and left Upper Yang Grotto-Heaven as its entrance closed.
• Jiang Ning returned the borrowed flying swords, then refined Ge Xian’er’s Divine Wind Fan and absorbed it into his body after mastering all seventeen restrictions.
• Jiang Ning completed his Divine Bone forging and began his sixth blood replacement, then discovered golden Divine Radiance particles in his blood and realized Long Xiaofeng had held back his full power.