Recaps

After the masked woman escaped with Yatelan, Yue Xiaofei recognized her sword technique and a birthmark as clues that she was his sister, Yue Lingfei, transformed into the Ancient Gods Church’s Divine Weapon. As he vowed to save her, the Sea-Calming Cauldron rose from the East Sea, badly corroded and at risk of breaking apart.

• The masked woman escaped with Yatelan after facing Ning Hongye and Yue Xiaofei, and Yue Xiaofei recognized her sword stance as the Yue Assassination Art.
• Han Duoduo identified the masked woman as the Ancient Gods Church’s Divine Weapon, code-named Zero, and showed Yue Xiaofei a reconstructed image revealing a swallow-shaped birthmark.
• Yue Xiaofei realized the woman was his sister, Yue Lingfei, lost control of his Black Emperor Bloodline, then calmed himself and vowed to destroy the Ancient Gods Church to save her.
• The seabed trembled, a bell rang, and the Sea-Calming Cauldron rose from the East Sea.
• The fleet discovered that black blood from human sacrifices was corroding the cauldron, which could break apart within three years and leave the East Sea’s Dragon Vein Barrier gone.

Yue Xiaofei awakened the Sea-Calming Cauldron, whose golden light cleansed the East Sea and healed the fleet’s soldiers. He then refined the Hongming Blade with the cauldron’s Dragon Vein True Fire, Heavy Water Essence, and his Black Emperor Essence Blood, transforming it into a dark-gold divine weapon.

• Yue Xiaofei approached the Sea-Calming Cauldron, and his Black Emperor Bloodline awakened it.
• The cauldron’s golden light purified the East Sea, healed the soldiers aboard the destroyer Sea-Calmer, and raised the fleet’s morale.
• Yue Xiaofei asked his Maternal Grandfather to hold the line while Academician Ye Jincheng stabilized the surrounding energy field.
• Yue Xiaofei cast the Hongming Blade into the cauldron and used his Black Emperor Essence Blood to refine it.
• After three hours, the Hongming Blade emerged as a dark-gold divine weapon, and Yue Xiaofei called it to his hand.

Yue Xiaofei claimed the Ink-Gold Divine Saber after defending Modu, then ordered the East Sea battle footage released to the world. The footage exposed the defeat of the Western Apostle Yatelan and left Su Wanning and her family confronting how badly they had underestimated Yue Xiaofei.

• Yue Xiaofei wielded the Ink-Gold Divine Saber and split a massive coral reef with a single slash.
• Yue Xiaofei told his maternal grandfather to release the complete East Sea battle footage worldwide.
• The footage showed Yue Xiaofei, Li Jiahao, and a blindfolded woman defeating the attackers, including Yatelan, whom Yue Xiaofei publicly called no god.
• Western viewers watched Yatelan's defeat, and many Church followers saw their faith collapse.
• Su Wanning watched the footage and realized Yue Xiaofei was the hero she had dismissed, while Jiang Lan cried with pride and remembered his parents.

At the Ancient Gods Church’s Divine Hall, Marcius executed the crippled Yatelan and ordered Weeping Grief to lead an assassination squad into Jiangcheng. The Church aimed to destroy the Jizhou Cauldron and kill Yue Xiaofei, while Marcius planned to use Yue Xiaofei’s sister to make their family turn against itself.

• Yatelan reported his defeat by Yue Xiaofei and Ning Hongye to Marcius.
• Marcius killed Yatelan with the Ancient God Sacred Flame, reducing him to ash.
• Marcius praised Zero, who had rescued Yatelan from the East Sea battlefield.
• Marcius revealed that the Jizhou Cauldron lay beneath Jiangcheng and ordered the God-Hunting Array activated.
• Marcius sent Weeping Grief and the First Assassination Squad to Jiangcheng to corrupt its earth veins, destroy the Jizhou Cauldron, and kill Yue Xiaofei.
• Marcius planned for Yue Xiaofei’s sister to kill him, turning their father Yue Changlong’s children against each other.

Han Duoduo discovered that assassins from the Ancient Gods Church had entered the Dragon Kingdom and were heading for Jiangcheng, where Yue Xiaofei’s grandfather, Yue Qinhu, lived. Yue Xiaofei led Reverse Scale Squad toward the city as the assassins attacked Yue Qinhu, who awakened his battlefield instincts and killed one of them.

• Han Duoduo intercepted a report that Ancient Gods Church assassins had entered the country and were heading to Jiangcheng, possibly targeting the Jizhou Cauldron or Yue Qinhu.
• Yue Xiaofei learned that his grandfather’s identity as Bureau 7’s founder, Old Farmer, could expose the Dragon Kingdom’s intelligence network if the Church captured him.
• Yue Xiaofei ordered Reverse Scale Squad to fly to Jiangcheng and kill any foreign attackers near Yue Qinhu’s home.
• The Phantom Shadow Death Warriors silently killed the guards around Yue Qinhu’s residence and cornered the old man in his courtyard.
• Yue Qinhu suddenly revived his killing instincts and impaled one attacking warrior through the throat with his jujube-wood cane.

Yue Qinhu fought off four Phantom Shadow Death Warriors but was nearly killed after his Jujube Wood Cane broke. Yue Xiaofei arrived in time, maimed the four attackers, and killed their captain, leaving the Yue Family’s attackers defeated.

• Yue Qinhu smashed apart the Blood God Soulbind and fought the four Phantom Shadow Death Warriors with his Jujube Wood Cane.
• The warriors wore Yue Qinhu down until his cane broke, then rushed to stab him with their poisoned daggers.
• Yue Xiaofei crashed through the roof and knocked the four attackers away from Yue Qinhu.
• Yue Xiaofei drew the Hongming Blade and severed the hands and feet of all four Phantom Shadow Death Warriors.
• Yue Xiaofei crushed the captain’s chest, demanded to know who had targeted an elder of the Yue Family, and burst his head with a surge of force.

Yue Xiaofei reunited with his grandfather after killing the assassins in Jiangcheng, and Yue Qinhu briefly recognized him before slipping back into his confused state. Meanwhile, officials at Swordbearer supreme command argued over Yue Xiaofei's actions, and Long Qianshan ordered a secure video connection to him.

• The Reverse Scale Squad secured the courtyard and erased signs of the fight while Yue Xiaofei approached Yue Qinhu.
• Yue Qinhu briefly recognized Yue Xiaofei, touched the General's Star on his shoulder, and told him he had done well and had not let his father down.
• Yue Qinhu lost clarity again, and Yue Xiaofei knelt beside him and swore vengeance on the Ancient Gods Church.
• At an emergency meeting, Elder Wang and other former Yi and Cao Family allies condemned Yue Xiaofei's methods and called for his tiger tally to be taken away.
• Long Qianshan ordered his secretary to connect to Yue Xiaofei's secure line and put the video on the big screen.

Yue Xiaofei confronted his accusers over the Jiangcheng killings and forced Long Qianshan to affirm his authority and protect his grandfather’s residence. As Yue Xiaofei returned to his grandfather, the chapter revealed that the Ancient Gods Church’s real target was the Central Province Cauldron beneath Mangshan, where a silent threat was emerging.

• Long Qianshan confronted Yue Xiaofei on a secure call about accusations that he had slaughtered people in Jiangcheng.
• Yue Xiaofei defended his family’s service to the Dragon Kingdom and threatened anyone who targeted his grandfather or betrayed him.
• The elderly man surnamed Wang withdrew his accusation, and Long Qianshan authorized Yue Xiaofei to execute first and report afterward.
• Long Qianshan declared Yue Xiaofei’s old residence in Jiangcheng a highest-level restricted zone and ordered a special operations regiment to guard it.
• Yue Xiaofei ended the call and covered his sleeping grandfather with a blanket, unaware that the Ancient Gods Church was targeting the Central Province Cauldron beneath Mangshan.
• A Bureau 7 garrison squad patrolled the underground palace entrance at Mangshan as an unseen shadow of death descended.

The Ancient Gods Church launched a surprise attack on Mangshan while Yue Xiaofei was away, threatening the Underground Palace and the Central Province Cauldron. With the seals about to fail, Ye Jincheng sent Yue Xiaofei to Luodu aboard the untested Black Emperor Aerospace Fighter.

• Zero and six National Authority Level fighters tore open a spatial rift above Mangshan, killed the garrison, and attacked the Underground Palace.
• The three Daoist Grandmasters emerged to confront the intruders, and a battle erupted as the Church began corroding the seals with sacred bone blood.
• Long Qianshan learned the Church had used the Jiangcheng assassination attempt to lure Yue Xiaofei away and discovered that signals in Jiangcheng were jammed.
• Ye Jincheng activated the Nantianmen Project's highest combat-readiness protocol and authorized the Black Emperor Aerospace Fighter for Yue Xiaofei.
• Yue Xiaofei boarded the Black Emperor with Ning Hongye and Li Jiahao, then launched toward Mangshan at extreme speed.

Yue Xiaofei, Ning Hongye, and Li Jiahao arrived at Mangshan and attacked the Church experts threatening the Underground Palace. Yue Xiaofei confronted Zero, recognized her as his sister Yue Lingfei, and tried to awaken her while she continued attacking him.

• Yue Xiaofei descended on the Church forces with a devastating slash that killed four priests, while Zero and two others escaped.
• Li Jiahao and Ning Hongye engaged the three surviving Church experts as Yue Xiaofei faced Zero before the Underground Palace.
• Zero attacked Yue Xiaofei with the Yue Assassination Art, but he dodged and parried without striking back, calling her his sister.
• Yue Xiaofei grabbed Zero's sword wrist and recognized the jasmine scent and swallow-shaped birthmark that confirmed she was Yue Lingfei.
• Yue Xiaofei tearfully shouted for Yue Lingfei to recognize him and snap out of it.

Yue Xiaofei shattered Zero’s mask and recognized his missing sister, Yue Lingfei, but the Church’s Soul Curse forced her to flee with Blood Escape. After the Church’s attackers were defeated, Yue Xiaofei’s grief and fury awakened the Black Emperor Engine and began to strain the barrier of Divine Sequence Gene Lock Tier Two.

• Yue Xiaofei disarmed Yue Lingfei and broke her mask, revealing his missing older sister beneath it.
• Yue Lingfei briefly recognized Yue Xiaofei, but the Ancient God Archbishop triggered her Soul Curse and drove her into agony.
• Yue Lingfei warned Yue Xiaofei to run, then used Blood Escape to vanish with the half-eroded stone fragment of the Nine Cauldrons.
• Li Jiahao and Ning Hongye killed their opponents, leaving Yue Lingfei as the only one of the seven Ancient Gods Church attackers to escape.
• Yue Xiaofei gathered Yue Lingfei’s hair and blood beside the damaged Central Province Cauldron, then howled as the Black Emperor Engine erupted and Tier Two’s barrier began to crack.

After discovering that the Ancient Gods Church had transformed his sister, Yue Xiaofei broke through to the peak of the second-tier divine sequence gene lock. He ordered Dragon Kingdom forces to prepare for war and vowed to lead a hundred thousand Swordbearer Cavalry against the Church within three years to bring his sister home.

• Yue Xiaofei lost control of his power, blasted Li Jiahao into a wall, and resolved to avenge his family and rescue his sister from the Ancient Gods Church.
• Yue Xiaofei broke through to the peak of the second-tier divine sequence gene lock, and his emperor dragon aura helped repair the Central Province Cauldron.
• Tu Gang arrived with reinforcements from the Luodu Theater and reported to Yue Xiaofei for orders.
• Yue Xiaofei issued a Swordbearer Order placing all theaters on the highest combat readiness and called for battle preparations.
• Yue Xiaofei vowed to lead a hundred thousand Swordbearer Cavalry against the Church within three years, and the soldiers answered with their battle cry as Ning Hongye and Li Jiahao pledged their support.

Yue Xiaofei hurried north to Changbai Mountain after Han Duoduo detected an enormous heat source and strange sounds beneath the Heavenly Pool, where his missing brother Yue Feng was last seen. He reunited with Zhao Mengsheng, who pledged the Northern Frontier forces to protect him and offered to lead him to the pool.

• Han Duoduo found signs of a massive underground heat source and strange war-drum-like sounds beneath Changbai Mountain's Heavenly Pool.
• Yue Xiaofei decided to go north immediately to search for his missing brother Yue Feng, despite Li Jiahao's warning that he had not recovered from forcing open the second-tier gene lock.
• Yue Xiaofei and the Reverse Scale Squad flew north aboard the Black Emperor Fighter, and Wild Chicken hoped they would find their former captain, Yue Feng.
• The fighter landed at a heavily fortified forward camp, where Zhao Mengsheng welcomed Yue Xiaofei and praised him as the Swordbearer.
• Zhao Mengsheng told Yue Xiaofei that a hundred thousand Northern Frontier troops were on alert and promised to take him to the Heavenly Pool.

Yue Xiaofei reached the Heavenly Pool on Changbai Mountain and used a mighty slash to part its waters, revealing the Cloudtop Heavenly Palace. After finding Yue Feng’s blood at its gate, he was confronted by a foreign god who had taken advantage of the broken seal.

• Zhao Mengsheng told Yue Xiaofei that Yue Feng had entered the mountain searching for the Heavenly Palace and their mother, but had not returned.
• At the Heavenly Pool, Ning Hongye sensed a great number of people below the ice, and Yue Xiaofei told the others to stand back.
• Yue Xiaofei unleashed the Earth-Splitting Style, shattering the ice and opening a passage through the water to the lakebed.
• Yue Xiaofei and Ning Hongye descended to an ancient gate marked Cloudtop Heavenly Palace, where Yue Xiaofei recognized Yue Feng’s blood on the steps.
• A foreign god appeared above the Heavenly Pool and mocked Yue Xiaofei for breaking the seal that had blocked its way.

Reynold and the Golden Griffin Legion attacked the camp above Heavenly Pool in pursuit of the Heroic Spirit Core, but the defenders fought back with modern weapons and powerful abilities. As Reynold’s lightning assault was stopped, Han Duoduo detonated an EMP mine above him.

• Reynold led more than thirty Berserkers toward the camp and ordered them to kill its defenders while he sought the Heroic Spirit Core.
• Zhao Mengsheng ordered the camp to fire, but the Berserkers’ rune barriers withstood the armored vehicles’ shells.
• Wild Chicken emerged with two Gauss Rotary Heavy Machine Guns and killed three Berserkers with a torrent of armor-piercing rounds.
• Reynold attacked Wild Chicken with the Thunder God's Hammer, but Ugly Ox blocked the blow with his Titan Greatshield.
• Han Duoduo appeared above Reynold and detonated a Miniature EMP Electromagnetic Collapse Mine, engulfing him in blue-white light.

Yue Xiaofei used his awakened Black Emperor bloodline to open the sealed gate beneath the Heavenly Pool and entered the ancient battlefield with Ning Hongye and Li Jiahao. They found a powerful figure seated beneath a vast, unmarked stone stele.

• Ning Hongye explained that Yue Feng had opened the gate with Yue Family blood and that brute force could not move it.
• Yue Xiaofei unleashed his Black Emperor bloodline, overcame the gate’s ancient will, and opened the enormous iron gate.
• Yue Xiaofei crossed the threshold, followed by Ning Hongye and Li Jiahao, and found a battlefield suspended over a dark void.
• The group saw countless ancient soldiers and weapons scattered across the battlefield, with the dead still radiating a battle formation’s baleful aura.
• Ning Hongye sensed a powerful presence at the battlefield’s center, where Yue Xiaofei spotted a figure seated beneath a towering black stele.

Yue Xiaofei and his companions found Yue Feng at the Wordless Stele, where he had spent five years binding three Western Ancient God remnant souls with his body and sword. When Yue Xiaofei reached him and threatened the gods, Yue Feng stirred, terrifying the captives.

• Yue Xiaofei reached the Wordless Stele and saw Yue Feng seated beneath it, holding three Western Ancient God remnant souls captive with nine chains.
• Li Jiahao recognized Yue Feng as the Darkness Emperor and revealed he had been suppressing the gods alone for five years.
• Yue Xiaofei rushed to Yue Feng, knelt before him, and said he had come to take his brother home.
• The archangel mocked Yue Xiaofei and claimed Yue Feng had sealed his soul inside the Shura Sword Domain, prompting Yue Xiaofei to draw the Black-Gold Hongming Blade and threaten the gods.
• Yue Feng stirred, and the frozen blood crust on his skin cracked, causing the three Ancient God remnant souls to fall silent and tremble in fear.

Yue Feng awakened and destroyed the three bound Ancient God remnant souls before recognizing and reuniting with his younger brother, Yue Xiaofei. Their reunion turned grim when Yue Feng asked about their family and noticed Yue Xiaofei's distress.

• Yue Feng awakened on the throne and annihilated the three Ancient God remnant souls with beams from his eyes.
• Yue Feng recognized Yue Xiaofei, and the brothers embraced and celebrated their reunion.
• Yue Xiaofei told Yue Feng that he had become the Swordbearer and described killing four National Authority Level fighters at Mangshan.
• Yue Feng asked what had happened to their father and Lingfei, and Yue Xiaofei's expression changed.
• Yue Feng sensed something was wrong and demanded that Yue Xiaofei tell him what had happened.

Yue Xiaofei told Yue Feng that their father was missing in the Kunlun Ruins and their sister had been turned into a Church weapon before disappearing. As the brothers vowed to rescue her and their father, they learned that Norse fighters had attacked above the Heavenly Palace, while the Reverse Scale Squad fought to survive.

• Yue Xiaofei told Yue Feng that their father was in the Kunlun Ruins and their sister, codenamed Zero, had vanished after burning her life essence to escape the Ancient Gods Church.
• Yue Feng erupted in rage, but Yue Xiaofei calmed him and vowed to lead an army against the Church within three years.
• Yue Feng insisted they would storm the Church together as soon as he escaped, then rescue their sister and father.
• Ning Hongye identified the attackers above the Heavenly Palace as Norse fighters led by Reynold, and Yue Feng prepared to fight them with Yue Xiaofei.
• The Reverse Scale Squad killed all thirty of Reynold's Berserkers, though Wild Chicken was injured by the force of the enemy leader's hammer.

Yue Feng returned alive from the fissure beneath the Heavenly Pool and effortlessly split Reynold’s apocalyptic lightning hammer with a sword strike. As the Reverse Scale Squad recognized their captain, Reynold realized the feared Darkness Emperor had returned.

• Reynold summoned a thousand-foot lightning hammer and aimed it at the Reverse Scale Squad and the Heavenly Pool fissure.
• Ugly Ox and Wild Chicken prepared to make a last stand as Reynold’s attack descended.
• A black sword slash erupted from the fissure and split Reynold’s lightning hammer in two.
• Yue Feng and Yue Xiaofei emerged from the fissure and landed beside the squad.
• Ugly Ox, Wild Chicken, and Han Duoduo recognized Yue Feng as their returned captain.
• Reynold recognized Yue Feng as the Darkness Emperor and recoiled in terror.

Yue Feng humiliated Reynold by dodging his divine-powered attack and crushing him with a single slap. As Reynold tried to escape through a spatial fissure, Yue Feng challenged him with his sword.

• Reynold attacked Yue Feng with the Thunder God's Hammer, but Yue Feng vanished before the strike hit.
• Yue Feng appeared above Reynold and shattered his Divine Runes barrier with a slap, sending him crashing into a crater.
• Yue Feng mocked Reynold's diluted divine blood and revealed that he trained against the remnant souls of three real gods.
• Reynold used his divine blood to open a spatial fissure and fled toward it, cursing Yue Feng and threatening him with the Ancient Divine Hall.
• Yue Feng watched Reynold try to escape and declared that he would have to answer to his sword.

Yue Feng dragged Reynold out of a Void Rift, broke his arm, and struck him with a slap that left him beaten and embedded in a cliff. As the surviving Berserkers charged, Yue Feng and Yue Xiaofei prepared to fight them together.

• Yue Feng seized Reynold by the neck and hauled him out of the collapsing Void Rift.
• Yue Feng smashed Reynold's wrist with the Blood-Dripping Greatsword, then slapped him through several stone statues and into a frozen cliff.
• Wild Chicken and Ugly Ox reacted to Yue Feng's overwhelming strength as Reynold lay bloodied and unconscious.
• The surviving Northern European Berserkers burned their divine blood and charged Yue Feng.
• Yue Feng and Yue Xiaofei agreed to split the Berserkers, and Yue Xiaofei charged the formation with the Eight Blades of Shattering the Edge.

Yue Xiaofei and Yue Feng slaughtered the Divine Hall Berserkers and spared Reynold for Yue Feng’s later use. The Heavenly Palace’s monument then cracked open with golden light, and Ning Hongye identified the power within as the authority of the Nine Provinces.

• Yue Xiaofei cut down the Berserkers attacking him with his Ink-Gold Long Saber.
• Yue Feng killed the Berserker captain and most of his fighters with his bare hands, then hurled his Black Greatsword to kill the two who fled.
• Yue Feng ordered Yue Xiaofei to leave Reynold alive because he had a use for him, then said they should retrieve what was inside the Heavenly Palace.
• Golden cracks spread across the black monument in the Ancient Battlefield, filling it with divine light.
• Li Jiahao sensed an ancient imperial aura, and Ning Hongye said it was the authority of the Nine Provinces, which the Ancient Battlefield seal had been created to nurture.

Yue Feng fused the First Emperor’s Jade Seal with his Shura Killing Dao, then revealed that their mother had left a way to save Yue Lingfei from the Ancient Gods Church’s corruption. The cure required divine heartblood from three High-Ranking Divine Agents and the Nine Provinces Righteous Qi of Huaxia’s Nine Cauldrons, setting the brothers against Western divine authority.

• Yue Feng explained that he had spent five years suppressing three Western False Gods and cleansing the jade seal with his Shura Killing Dao.
• Yue Feng offered his vital essence blood to the First Emperor’s Jade Seal, which fused with him and released nine true dragon phantoms.
• Yue Feng gave Yue Xiaofei a secret letter in Ye Qingmei’s handwriting that revealed the Ancient Gods Church had corrupted Yue Lingfei’s Divine Marrow.
• Yue Feng explained that saving Yue Lingfei required the heartblood of three High-Ranking Divine Agents and the Nine Provinces Righteous Qi of Huaxia’s Nine Cauldrons.

Yue Feng and Yue Xiaofei emerged from Changbai Mountain after deciding to hunt Divine Agents for the divine heart's blood needed to save Yue Xiaofei's sister. A hundred thousand Northern Frontier soldiers welcomed Yue Feng back as the Heavenly Dragon, and he prepared to strike at the False Gods.

• Yue Xiaofei agreed to seize divine heart's blood by force, and Yue Feng backed him as they headed out with Reynold captive.
• Zhao Mengsheng and a hundred thousand Northern Frontier soldiers welcomed Yue Feng back at Changbai Mountain's Heavenly Pool.
• Yue Feng identified himself as the captain of the Reverse Scale Squad and reunited with Wild Chicken, Ugly Ox, and Han Duoduo.
• Yue Feng ordered Zhao Mengsheng to keep Reynold alive and lend him an ultra-long-range bomber so he could send the False Gods a return gift.