Recaps

Lu Yun killed the sixth-rank Netherworld Wolf chieftain, greatly increased his saber technique experience, and claimed its beast core. After his achievements during the assessment drew the attention of the Martial Dao Alliance Headquarters, chief examiner Lei Tian ordered him to return to the hall, where Lu Yun expected to learn why they had summoned him.

• Lu Yun waited in a cave for an approaching sixth-rank Netherworld Wolf, which accused him of killing its subordinates and attacked.
• The Netherworld Wolf caught Lu Yun's saber and counterattacked, but Lu Yun used thirty-three layers of amplification to overwhelm it.
• Lu Yun killed the Netherworld Wolf chieftain with a blow to the head, triggering a 300x critical hit that raised his Thousand Mountains Saber Technique experience.
• Lu Yun took the chieftain's beast core and realized his feats had made it impossible to keep his true strength hidden.
• After Lu Yun left the cave and summoned the Windchasing Tiger, his communicator received Lei Tian's message ordering him to return to the hall because Martial Dao Alliance Headquarters representatives had arrived.

After Lu Yun returned from Netherworld Valley, Eastern King Gu Yuanwei met him and confirmed his extraordinary talent and strength. Gu Yuanwei announced the Martial God’s appointment of Lu Yun as Grand Lord of Humanity’s Ninth District, then took him to the Unfixed Pagoda for the final assessment.

• Lu Yun returned to the hall, where Gu Yuanwei introduced himself as the Martial Dao Alliance representative and shook Lu Yun’s hand.
• Gu Yuanwei sensed Lu Yun’s cultivation and recognized him as a prodigy, while Lu Yun reflected on the gap between their strength.
• Gu Yuanwei told Lu Yun that the Martial God had appointed him Grand Lord of Humanity’s Ninth District, but wanted him to complete the Unfixed Pagoda test first.
• Lu Yun agreed to take the test, and Gu Yuanwei traveled with him by supersonic spacecraft to the Unfixed Pagoda.

Lu Yun arrived at the Unfixed Pagoda with Gu Yuanwei and reunited with Chu Lingxue, where Dugu Mingjun challenged his standing with pointed remarks. Gu Yuanwei proposed a wager over who would climb highest, and Dugu Mingjun asked what was at stake.

• Lu Yun arrived at the Unfixed Pagoda with Gu Yuanwei, attracting attention from the gathered cultivators.
• Chu Lingxue recognized Lu Yun and was surprised that he had passed the earlier assessments and arrived with the Eastern King.
• Dugu Mingjun approached Chu Lingxue and taunted Lu Yun for being personally escorted by Gu Yuanwei.
• Gu Yuanwei identified Dugu Mingjun as the Western King's nephew and proposed betting on who would climb highest in the tower.
• Dugu Mingjun accepted the challenge in principle and asked Gu Yuanwei what he wanted to wager.

Gu Yuanwei and Dugu Mingjun wagered valuable treasures before the Unfixed Pagoda assessment began. The Pagoda Spirit explained the challenge and sent each contestant into a separate trial, where Lu Yun faced a virtual opponent matching his strength.

• Gu Yuanwei offered a bottle of Water-Rhyme Spirit Pills as his wager, and Dugu Mingjun staked ten Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones.
• The Unfixed Pagoda began the assessment, and the Pagoda Spirit explained that contestants had to defeat opponents matching their strength across nine floors.
• The Pagoda Spirit transported each contestant to a separate space, leaving Lu Yun alone in a gray haze.
• A black-armored virtual opponent appeared before Lu Yun with Sea-Opening Perfection Realm strength and attacked him.
• Lu Yun exchanged saber strikes with the opponent, realized they were evenly matched, and began building power with thirty-threefold amplification.

Lu Yun defeated the first-floor opponent, unlocking a 1000x critical strike multiplier, then faced two simulated Early Star-Gathering Realm warriors on the second floor. As their attacks trained his Primordial Unity Fist, he broke through to the Mid-Star-Gathering Realm and prepared to counterattack.

• Lu Yun killed the black-robed opponent and gained enough saber experience to trigger the system’s 1000x critical strike multiplier.
• The Pagoda Spirit announced that Lu Yun had passed the first-floor trial and transported him to the second floor.
• Two simulated Early Star-Gathering Realm warriors attacked Lu Yun, matching his speed and forcing him onto the defensive.
• Lu Yun rapidly improved his Primordial Unity Fist through repeated critical strikes as his cultivation bottleneck began to loosen.
• Lu Yun broke through to the Mid-Star-Gathering Realm and charged at the two attackers instead of dodging.

Lu Yun advanced through the Unfixed Pagoda, defeating increasingly strong opponents until six Mid-Star-Gathering Realm black-clad men attacked him on the fourth floor. He broke through to the Late-Stage Star-Gathering Realm while fighting them.

• Lu Yun defeated two Early-Star-Gathering Realm black-clad men with one punch and advanced to the third floor.
• Lu Yun quickly defeated three Mid-Star-Gathering Realm opponents and was sent to the fourth floor.
• Dugu Mingjun defeated two opponents on the second floor and believed he was the first examinee to reach the third floor, while dismissing Lu Yun as eliminated.
• Lu Yun discovered six Mid-Star-Gathering Realm black-clad men waiting on the fourth floor and used his saber to hold them back.
• Lu Yun gained Thousand Mountains Saber Technique experience, broke through his Mid-Star-Gathering Realm bottleneck, and advanced to the Late-Stage Star-Gathering Realm.

Lu Yun advanced to the Star-Gathering Complete Realm while trying to find a way to defeat eighteen equally strong opponents on the tower's fifth floor. He prepared to face them after his sudden enlightenment transformed his power.

• Lu Yun reached the Late-Stage Star-Gathering Realm and killed the six men in black on the fourth floor.
• Lu Yun entered the fifth floor, where eighteen men in black appeared, each at the Late-Stage Star-Gathering Realm.
• Lu Yun realized that neither the Thousand Mountains Saber Technique nor the Primordial Unity Fist alone could handle the opponents and began contemplating how to combine them.
• The system detected that Lu Yun was creating a martial technique and granted him repeated martial technique experience, triggering a 1000x critical hit.
• Lu Yun's cultivation surged past the Star-Gathering Peak Realm to the Star-Gathering Complete Realm, and the system unlocked Phase Five: 2000x Critical Hit Amplification.
• Lu Yun sensed his newfound strength and prepared to fight the eighteen men in black.

Lu Yun defeated the pagoda’s trials with ease, advanced to the Star-Gathering Complete Realm with two stars, and reached the eighth floor. His name appeared on the stone stele as he prepared to face the trial that had stopped Baili Yuchen.

• Lu Yun killed all eighteen black-clad men on the fourth floor, and a second star formed in his dantian, advancing him to the Two-Star Stage of the Star-Gathering Complete Realm.
• The woman in red realized that Lu Yun had passed the trial she had set to Hell difficulty and could not believe he had reached the fifth floor.
• Lu Yun swiftly killed the fifth floor’s thirty-two Star-Gathering Peak Realm opponents and continued climbing through the pagoda.
• Lu Yun reached the eighth floor, where Baili Yuchen had once been stopped, while the stone stele outside displayed his name and drew the crowd’s attention.
• Lu Yun sensed the energy around him and braced for the formidable battle ahead.

Lu Yun fought the black-clothed man on the Unfixed Pagoda’s eighth floor, testing his strength against an opponent with three spiritual power stars. After nearly dying to the man’s Falling Star Sword, Lu Yun escaped and received a surge in Primordial Fist experience that strengthened his spiritual power.

• The man in black appeared on the eighth floor and revealed that he had condensed at least three spiritual power stars, compared with Lu Yun’s two.
• Lu Yun and the man in black exchanged attacks, and Lu Yun’s relentless saber strikes gradually began to suppress his opponent.
• The man in black unleashed Falling Star Sword, trapping Lu Yun with a force that left him unable to move as countless swords rushed toward him.
• Lu Yun detonated his acupoints to break free and retreat from the sword net.
• The system awarded Lu Yun 20,000 Primordial Fist experience, raising the technique from lv225 29% to lv237 32% and strengthening his spiritual power.

Lu Yun defeated the weakened man in black after reaching three stars, then gained another star and advanced to the Unfixed Pagoda’s ninth floor. Outside, the crowd celebrated his unprecedented achievement, while Dugu Mingjun remained unaware of Lu Yun’s progress.

• Lu Yun discovered that he had reached three stars and attacked the man in black while his spiritual power was depleted.
• Lu Yun struck the man in black, severely injuring him, and the system increased Lu Yun’s fist proficiency and strength to four stars.
• The Unfixed Pagoda transported Lu Yun to the ninth floor, and the monument outside updated his progress.
• The crowd on Bluestone Square reacted in shock as rumors spread that Lu Yun had achieved an SSS+-ranked talent result.
• Dugu Mingjun failed the third-floor trial and confidently assumed that Lu Yun had not even passed the first floor.

Lu Yun reached the ninth floor of the Unfixed Pagoda and met the one-armed elder Qing Yuanzi, who revealed that he was Baili Yuchen’s master and had lived for 499 years. Lu Yun accepted Qing Yuanzi as his master, and Qing Yuanzi passed the Heavenly Sword Art into his sea of consciousness.

• Lu Yun followed a voice to a study on the ninth floor, where he found a powerful one-armed elder waiting for him.
• The elder told Lu Yun he was 499 years old and that Baili Yuchen had failed a mission despite being the Martial God.
• The elder revealed that he was Baili Yuchen’s master and had arranged for the Unfixed Pagoda’s location to be revealed after Baili Yuchen failed.
• The elder said Lu Yun might have a chance to complete the mission, then asked him to become his disciple.
• Lu Yun accepted and bowed to Qing Yuanzi, who passed the Heavenly Sword Art into his sea of consciousness.

Lu Yun learned that the Heavenly Sword Art could lead beyond the Star-Gathering Realm, while Qing Yuanzi warned him how difficult it was to master. After the system converted his experience points and raised the art to level six, Lu Yun claimed he could master its first seven levels and asked to demonstrate.

• Qing Yuanzi explained that the Heavenly Sword Art was created by Ziyun and described the realms beyond the Star-Gathering Realm.
• Qing Yuanzi warned Lu Yun that the Heavenly Sword Art was extremely difficult, recounting how he had reached only its sixth level and Baili Yuchen only its fifth.
• The system converted Lu Yun's experience points, leaving him with the Heavenly Sword Art at level six.
• Lu Yun told Qing Yuanzi he was slightly stronger than Baili Yuchen and could master the first seven levels.
• Qing Yuanzi handed Lu Yun a Falling Leaf Azure Edge Sword and invited him to demonstrate his comprehension.

Lu Yun mastered the Heavenly Sword Art in moments and used its seventy-sixth move to trigger a breakthrough into the Nirvana Realm. Qing Yuanzi watched in shock as his new disciple’s talent surpassed even his expectations.

• Lu Yun practiced the Heavenly Sword Art with extraordinary skill, and his sword art experience surged as the system triggered critical hits.
• Qing Yuanzi watched Lu Yun’s aura and swordsmanship grow stronger, recognizing him as a peerless prodigy.
• Lu Yun unleashed the seventy-sixth move, Shadow Doppelgänger, and tore open space with his sword, astonishing Qing Yuanzi.
• Lu Yun endured the raging gale winds as spiritual energy stars condensed in his sea of qi and dantian until he reached the Nirvana Realm.
• Lu Yun celebrated his breakthrough, and Qing Yuanzi realized that Lu Yun had truly comprehended the Heavenly Sword Art.

After learning Unfixed Pagoda’s history from Qing Yuanzi, Lu Yun hurried underground to reinforce the chains holding the recovering Thunderclap Venom Xun Python. His sudden departure through a spatial rift left Eastern King Gu Yuanwei and the others alarmed, and they followed him below.

• Qing Yuanzi praised Lu Yun’s extraordinary talent and revealed that he had learned Unfixed Pagoda’s secrets as a disciple of Mirror Moon Sect’s sect master Ouyang Jie.
• Qing Yuanzi explained that a Mirror Moon Sect predecessor built Unfixed Pagoda and created a restriction to suppress enemies, then recounted the calamity that befell the sect.
• After hearing the story, Lu Yun set off to reinforce the chains binding the beast beneath the pagoda, which Qing Yuanzi said had been growing stronger.
• Lu Yun appeared on Bluestone Square, saw the crowd waiting for him, and opened a spatial rift to leave without speaking to them.
• Eastern King Gu Yuanwei sensed trouble, jumped through the still-open rift, and led others in following Lu Yun underground.

Lu Yun followed the Thunderclap Venom Xun Python’s disturbances to the Unfixed Pagoda’s underground abyss and found the beast bound by chains. He entered the confinement to stop it, but its power already blasted him back as it struggled to break free.

• Lu Yun crossed the underground palace, passed the lifelike corpses of ancient cultivators, and hurried toward the abyss’s core.
• Lu Yun reached the cavern sealed by a pale green barrier and saw the Thunderclap Venom Xun Python bound by enormous chains.
• The Thunderclap Venom Xun Python broke another chain and threatened Lu Yun, claiming it had recovered part of its cultivation.
• Lu Yun used Qing Yuanzi’s method to pass through the barrier and entered the cavern to trap the beast.
• Lu Yun attacked the python’s tail, but its aura blasted him away, revealing its terrifying strength even while restrained.

Lu Yun fought the Thunderclap Venom Xun Python, whose wounds healed after his initial sword strikes. As the battle continued, Lu Yun broke through to the Early Void Transformation Realm and severed the beast’s head, though it remained alive and thrashed blindly.

• Lu Yun attacked the Thunderclap Venom Xun Python with the Heavenly Sword Art, but its wounds healed almost instantly.
• Lu Yun dodged the beast’s attacks and kept fighting while his sword technique experience and spiritual power increased.
• Lu Yun checked his status panel and discovered he had reached the Early Void Transformation Realm.
• Lu Yun unleashed a giant violet-gold sword that split the Thunderclap Venom Xun Python’s head apart.
• The headless Thunderclap Venom Xun Python remained alive, cursed Lu Yun, and lashed wildly at its surroundings.

Lu Yun killed the sealed ninth-rank Thunderclap Venom Xun Python and returned to the Unfixed Pagoda’s third floor, where he reunited with Chu Lingxue and encountered Dugu Mingjun. He planned to report to Qing Yuanzi, his new master, and reminded Dugu Mingjun of their wager.

• Lu Yun used his longsword to finish off the Thunderclap Venom Xun Python, took its beast core, and saw his system advance to Phase Six with 3000x Critical Strike Amplification.
• Gu Yuanwei and the others found the slain demon beast underground and feared that a hidden expert had killed it, while Gu Yuanwei wondered whether Lu Yun was involved.
• Lu Yun returned to Bluestone Square and reflected that he had destroyed the beast’s body to fulfill his promise to Qing Yuanzi.
• Chu Lingxue and Dugu Mingjun arrived on the third floor; Chu Lingxue said she had passed the trial, and Lu Yun told her he had slain the strange beast and would report to his master.
• Lu Yun reminded Dugu Mingjun of their wager and looked forward to receiving the ten Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones.

Lu Yun emerged from the Unfixed Pagoda as the first person to reach its ninth floor, forcing Dugu Mingjun to pay their wager of ten Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones. After Lu Yun left, Baili Yuchen arrived to investigate a terrifying aura and learned that the sealed demonic beast appeared to have stopped breathing.

• Dugu Mingjun saw that Lu Yun had reached the ninth floor first and, despite his resentment, resolved to make Lu Yun his lifelong rival.
• Lu Yun asked Dugu Mingjun for the wager, and Dugu Mingjun handed him ten Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Lu Yun left Bluestone Square and returned to report to Qing Yuanzi.
• Baili Yuchen rushed to the Unfixed Pagoda after sensing a terrifying aura, but arrived after Lu Yun had departed.
• Gu Yuanwei, the Eastern King, and the others emerged from a rift, and Baili Yuchen asked Gu Yuanwei what had happened underground.

Lu Yun completed Qing Yuanzi’s task by defeating the Thunderclap Venom Xun Python and returned to the ninth floor of the Unfixed Pagoda, where his rapid rise to Void Transformation shocked his master. Qing Yuanzi urged him to keep cultivating as the return of stronger experts drew near, while Baili Yuchen resolved to enter seclusion beneath the tower.

• At Bluestone Square, Gu Yuanwei told Baili Yuchen that Lu Yun had reached the Unfixed Pagoda’s ninth floor and killed the demonic beast underground.
• Qing Yuanzi was stunned by Lu Yun’s strength and suspected he had reached the middle stage of the Void Transformation Realm.
• Qing Yuanzi warned Lu Yun that the return of Dao-Seeking and Space-Shattering experts might be near and told him to keep cultivating.
• Lu Yun left to recover and absorb his Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones while aiming to reach the Dao-Seeking Realm.
• After Qing Yuanzi recounted what happened, Baili Yuchen declared that he would remain in seclusion beneath the Unfixed Pagoda until he reached the Void Transformation Realm.

After half a year of cultivation at the Unfixed Pagoda, Lu Yun sensed a powerful silver eagle approaching Sky Net Star. The eagle evolved into the Dao-Seeking Realm and nearly killed Baili Yuchen before a golden shield appeared to protect him.

• Lu Yun sensed a late Dao-Seeking Realm silver eagle flying toward the Unfixed Pagoda and resolved to stop enemies of Sky Net Star.
• The silver eagle attacked martial artists on Bluestone Square, killing many before Baili Yuchen intervened.
• Baili Yuchen struck the silver eagle, but it evolved during their clash and advanced to the Dao-Seeking Realm.
• The silver eagle hurled Baili Yuchen back, then attacked him with needle-like feathers and its beak.
• A streak of golden light formed a shield around Baili Yuchen just as the silver eagle lunged for his throat.

Lu Yun battled the Silver Eagle and endured its Samadhi Heaven-Burning Flame while his Heavenly Sword Art grew stronger. He broke through to the Early Dao-Seeking Realm, unlocked the system’s 5000x critical strike amplification, and began wounding the Silver Eagle more seriously.

• Lu Yun confronted the Silver Eagle on the eighth floor of the Unfixed Pagoda and traded attacks with it using the Falling Leaf Azure Edge Sword.
• The Silver Eagle unleashed its Samadhi Heaven-Burning Flame, forcing Lu Yun to defend himself against its burning attack.
• Lu Yun advanced from the Void Transformation Realm Pinnacle to the Early Dao-Seeking Realm, and the system unlocked its seventh stage with 5000x critical strike amplification.
• Lu Yun’s strengthened Sword Qi shredded the Silver Eagle’s wings and left them covered in bloody marks.
• Lu Yun continued using the Heavenly Sword Art as the system granted him 50000 swordsmanship experience for each 5000x critical strike.

Lu Yun killed the silver giant eagle with a powerful sword strike, reaching peak Dao-Seeking Realm strength and becoming Sky Net Star’s strongest. After learning that Earthbound Immortals might soon arrive to seek Xiao Zhengqing’s hidden cave abode, he returned to the Unfixed Pagoda to cultivate.

• Lu Yun used the Heavenly Sword Art to slay the silver giant eagle and gained one million experience points.
• Lu Yun checked his status and saw that his Heavenly Sword Art had reached level 236 and his strength had reached peak Dao-Seeking Realm.
• Lu Yun recalled the legend of Xiao Zhengqing, an Earthbound Immortal who left Sky Net Star to seek a greater realm and hid his cave abode behind.
• Lu Yun concluded that Sky Net Star’s growing spiritual energy could soon attract powerful Earthbound Immortals, so he returned to the eighth floor of the Unfixed Pagoda to cultivate.
• The people in Bluestone Square praised Lu Yun for defeating the giant eagle and recognized him as humanity’s strongest.

Lu Yun sensed that a heavenly tribulation was near while cultivating in the Unfixed Pagoda, then learned that Dugu Yao and Zhou Xinghe were conspiring to summon powerful outsiders using Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones. Baili Yuchen prepared to confront the two after Qu Zihan revealed their betrayal and the capture of the South King and East King.

• Three years passed, Qing Yuanzi died, and Baili Yuchen became the fifty-fourth sect master of the Mirror Moon Sect.
• Lu Yun sensed a possible heavenly tribulation as he neared the Space-Shattering Realm and watched Lu Xingwen teach at the Heavenly Origin Martial Arts Hall and Chu Lingxue spend her birthday in Tong City.
• Qu Zihan arrived at the Unfixed Pagoda, bloodied and distressed, seeking Baili Yuchen after escaping a meeting called by Dugu Yao and Zhou Xinghe.
• Qu Zihan reported that Dugu Yao had attacked Zuo Wenxuan and Gu Yuanwei after they resisted a demand for three Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones from each attendee.
• Qu Zihan revealed that Dugu Yao planned to use the stones to summon powerful outsiders and that she had captured Dugu Mingjun while escaping.
• Baili Yuchen learned that the South King was imprisoned and the East King had been poisoned, then vowed to kill Dugu Yao and Zhou Xinghe.

The Western King Dugu Yao and Northern King Zhou Xinghe activated the Azure Light Demon-Summoning Formation, revealing that they belonged to the Devil Race. Baili Yuchen arrived too late to stop the formation, and the Blue Demon Race powerhouses descended through its expanding vortex.

• Dugu Yao and Zhou Xinghe prepared the formation with Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones, hoping to summon their race’s powerhouses and find Xiao Zhengqing’s cultivation technique.
• Baili Yuchen confronted the two kings, and Zhou Xinghe revealed that they were members of the Devil Race.
• Baili Yuchen attacked the kings, but Zhou Xinghe kept him from stopping Dugu Yao as he completed the formation.
• A vast spatial vortex appeared, and Baili Yuchen’s attacks failed to damage it.
• Blue Demon Race powerhouses emerged from the vortex as Dugu Yao and Zhou Xinghe watched fanatically.

Blue Demon Race experts descended on Sky Net Star, revealed their plan to use humanity as blood sacrifices, and nearly killed Baili Yuchen. Lu Yun arrived in time to block the killing blow, then found himself surrounded by Dugu Yao and Zhou Xinghe.

• Blue Demon Race experts arrived through the Azure Light Demon-Summoning Formation, and Zhou Xinghe and Dugu Yao greeted them as their agents.
• A Blue Demon Race expert attacked Baili Yuchen as he tried to flee and told him their plan was to sacrifice humanity as blood food.
• The Blue Demon Race expert pursued Baili Yuchen for a fatal blow, but a streak of golden light blocked the attack.
• Qu Zihan and Martial Dao Alliance reinforcements arrived and saw Lu Yun step forward to confront the Blue Demon Race experts.
• Dugu Yao identified himself to Lu Yun, then joined Zhou Xinghe in surrounding him while Lu Yun stood still.