Recaps

Jiang Ning advanced his sword arts and Martial Dao, formed an immortal root, and gathered resources while famine and political unrest threatened Dongling. He also helped Jiang Yiming pursue Lin Jiaxin, bringing them to the Lin Clan for a meeting with Inspector Jiang.

• Jiang Ning entered the Shangyang Inner Landscape Grounds, where Shen Yue Ru guided him through the Yang Pool and Dao Lecture Platform, shared the Grand Void Yin-Yang Sword with him, and reached Pure Yang through their soul melding.
• Jiang Ning returned to Guangning Prefecture, practiced Shen Yue Ru’s sword art, received sword-technique inheritances from Wang Xuan, and limit-broke the Seven-Star Demon-Subduing Sword to gain new traits and connect his Sword Intent to the stars.
• Jiang Ning witnessed Lu Zhan defeat Pang Yunhai, then met King Huai'an at the Inspection Office and heard Granny Bai advise him to seek the top martial scholar title and meet Xiao Wuque in the Royal Capital.
• Jiang Ning completed his seventh blood exchange with the Divine Tree’s heart, practiced the Two Forms Hard-Soft Sword, and limit-broke the Inner Elixir Life-Nourishing Technique until his immortal root sprouted and he gained the Great Sun Furnace trait.
• Jiang Ning visited Water-Moon Sword Palace, learned that Lin Qingyi was inside the moon and suited to inherit its legacy, then collected treasures from Xiao Emei and Divine Sword Manor to prepare for another blood exchange.
• Jiang Ning learned of drought, locusts, and refugees arriving in Dongling, promised Wang Shouyi he would protect his daughters if disaster came, and agreed to help Jiang Yiming seek an engagement with Lin Jiaxin.
• Jiang Ning reassured Zhong Ling and continued strengthening his sword art as famine and Grotto-Heaven threats weighed on him, while Bai Luoyu resolved to surpass his own limits.
• Jiang Ning took Jiang Yiming and Feng Jiге to the Lin Clan, where Lin Zhenbei dismissed Jiang Yiming’s prospects before Inspector Jiang summoned him and Lin Jiaxin to the reception hall.

Jiang Ning advanced his swordsmanship and seasonal arts, completed his eighth blood exchange, and climbed the Heaven-Climbing Stairway until his soul became a Yang God. After refusing the Xia Family’s offer, he killed Fang Yu for trying to take Zhong Ling and prepared to guard his home with her mother’s pagoda.

• Jiang Ning strengthened his sword arts and completed his eighth blood exchange, growing his immortal root and pale-gold blood.
• Jiang Ning completed the Spring and Summer Canons, defeated Nan Zhiwei in a spar, and declined Xia Wanqin and Xia Xuanyan’s offer to join their family.
• Jiang Ning trained Jiang Yiming, perfected Sun Overhead, and visited the Shangyang Immortal Sect’s Inner Landscape Grounds.
• Jiang Ning climbed beyond the Heaven-Climbing Stairway’s hundredth step and chose self-growing soil, which later nourished his immortal root.
• Jiang Ning endured the Celestial Ladder’s pressure and returned with a pure-yang soul that could manifest as a Yang God.
• Jiang Ning confirmed his Yang God could withstand sunlight and discovered that the self-growing soil had formed a silver space-aspected leaf on his immortal root.
• Fang Yu came to take Zhong Ling, injured Zhao Yulong, and threatened Jiang Ning’s household, but Jiang Ning killed him with one punch.
• Zhong Ling lent Jiang Ning her mother’s nameless pagoda, which he bound to himself and placed in his Spirit Platform to protect his Yang God.

Jiang Ning helped destroy Profound Finger Mountain, then strengthened his body and traveled to the Royal Capital for the martial examination. There he met Xiao Wuque, received aid for his ninth blood exchange, and learned Ji Mingyue had declared herself pledged to him and been confined.

• Jiang Ning broke through the Summer Canon and Two Forms Hard-Soft Sword, gaining Sun-Yang True Fire and improving his swordsmanship.
• Li Sixiang hired Tyrant Blade Li San to kill Jiang Ning, but Jiang Ning survived Li San’s attack and killed him, discovering that the ambush involved Yun Shanhe’s Mountains and Rivers Finger.
• Jiang Ning joined the Violet-Clad Marquis and Zhong Yue in an attack on Profound Finger Mountain, where he killed Fang Daoquan and helped defeat the mountain’s defenders.
• Xiang Yuan broke into the Mysterious Origin Blessed Land but failed to reach its heart, then advised Jiang Ning to meet Xiao Wuque in the Royal Capital.
• After the victory banquet, Jiang Ning returned home, trained the Indestructible Vajra Body to Four Limit Breaks, and set out for the Royal Capital despite reports of Yellow Heaven Cult activity.
• Jiang Ning evaded Li Sixiang’s watch and reached the Royal Capital, where he heard that Ji Mingyue had confessed her feelings for him to the Emperor.
• Xiao Wuque questioned Jiang Ning about his blood exchanges and past-life memories, gave him sealed immortal phoenix blood, and granted him access to the Dao Palace library.
• Jiang Ning read extensively in the Dao Palace library, then learned from Li Mujin that Ji Mingyue had declared herself pledged to him and been confined to Luan Palace.

As the Yellow Heaven Cult’s rebellion threatened Great Xia, Jiang Ning completed his ninth blood change and reached the Martial Dao myth realm. He returned to the Royal Capital, where he sought counsel from the Martial Saint and was drawn into a mysterious encounter tied to Lin Qingyi.

• Jiang Ning promised Ji Minghao that Ji Mingyue would be treated as his wife, accepted the Spiritual Altar Illumination of the True Self Method, and met the injured Su Qingying.
• Jiang Ning helped Su Qingying loosen her divine shackles, cultivated at the National Preceptor’s Residence, and opened his Inner Landscape Grounds while rejecting Ji Mingyuan’s offer to join the succession struggle.
• Lord Fuyuan attacked the Royal Capital, killed thousands through his puppets, and was destroyed by the Martial Saint, while the Black Lotus Holy Mother consumed a stone statue.
• The Yellow Heaven Daoist raised a rebellion after killing the White Horned Dragon and claiming the Human Emperor Sword, so Jiang Ning sent his family toward the Royal Capital and stayed in Dongling Commandery.
• Jiang Ning learned that the Yellow Heaven Cult was expanding across neighboring regions, broke through the fourth limit of his Indestructible Vajra Body, and began his final blood exchange.
• Jiang Ning completed the ninth blood change, merged his True Spirit with his soul, and traveled to the Royal Capital, where Su Qingying agreed to protect his family.
• The Blind Elder and Xiao Wuque recognized Jiang Ning’s breakthrough, and the Martial Saint praised his potential but said he could not take him as a disciple.
• Jiang Ning practiced the Spiritual Altar Illumination of the True Self Method, then awoke beside a moonlit lake where a mysterious woman brought him to Lin Qingyi for her final step.