Recaps

Tai Pei'er, Zhao Xixun, and Qin Dingying defeated two Xianyu Kingdom cultivators after a sudden attack split their enemies. They divided the spoils and discussed the enemy’s tactics, while Tai Pei’er’s greeting left Qin Dingying uneasy about their past.

• A sudden gale of snow separated the four Xianyu Kingdom cultivators, allowing Tai Pei'er, Zhao Xixun, and their new ally to trap and kill the beast-robed cultivator and his wounded companion while two enemies escaped.
• The three introduced themselves, and Tai Pei'er recognized Zhao Xixun and Qin Dingying from her previous life.
• Tai Pei'er reminded Qin Dingying of their past encounter, stirring her grief over her sister and her despair at the gap between herself and Jiang Yang.
• Zhao Xixun proposed dividing the fallen cultivators' possessions, and Tai Pei'er insisted Qin Dingying take a share for her help.
• The three exchanged observations and concluded that the Xianyu Kingdom cultivators were alert, quick to retreat, and not inclined to protect their wounded.

Tai Pei'er and her companions returned to Northern Defense Pass after a battle, where she suspected the fighting was tied to the ancient Southern Peak Abbey and an impending plan. Elsewhere, Lu Yuzheng awakened among the dead and realized the pass was under attack again.

• Zhao Xixun and Qin Dingying questioned why the enemy had committed so many Foundation Establishment cultivators, while Tai Pei'er considered the possibility that the conflict centered on Southern Peak Abbey.
• Tai Pei'er warned Zhao Xixun to rest because she expected the Di Yi to attack again soon, then headed to her camp to check on her people.
• Lu Yuzheng awoke in a cave surrounded by corpses and discovered his legs were frozen to the ground by spilled blood.
• Lu Yuzheng gathered his companions' remaining talismans and mystic artifacts and made his way to the cave entrance.
• Lu Yuzheng saw another battle raging above Northern Defense Pass and lamented that this was the third attack in half a month.

Lin Xi Yu arrived at the Heavenly Pass as the True Persons questioned the escalating Di attacks and the hidden Xianyu Purple Mansion cultivators. She proposed forcing Xianyu to reveal itself and gave Jiang Yang the choice of how to proceed.

• Lin Xiuyi, Dongmen Wan Jing, and True Person Buji questioned Prince Jing Lu Xinghuai about the mounting casualties and Xianyu Purple Mansion's absence.
• Lin Xi Yu arrived and told True Person Buji that Buhui would soon come with disciples.
• After hearing Lu Xinghuai's account, Lin Xi Yu suggested sending their disciples into battle to force Xianyu to emerge.
• Lin Xi Yu summoned Jiang Yang, who descended from the Spirit Boat and greeted the True Persons.
• Lin Xi Yu secretly winked at Jiang Yang and told him he could choose his own course.

Jiang Yang joined the forces defending the Zheng Kingdom and went alone to face the approaching assault at the gate pass. As Lu Ji’s army charged, Jiang Yang summoned a jade-green blade outside the city.

• Jiang Yang accepted Lin Xi Yu’s plan, and Lu Xinghuai ordered the Spirit Boats to proceed toward the gate pass.
• Jiang Yang left the main force, flew toward the pass, and the True Persons watched the battle without intervening.
• Lu Ji learned that the third prince was still away, then ordered his troops to attack without waiting.
• The defenders sounded the drums, activated the spirit array, and began closing the gate as Lu Yuzheng recognized Jiang Yang.
• Jiang Yang stopped the gate from closing until he had gone out, then formed a jade-green blade in his hand.

Jiang Yang stopped the Wu army at the Pass Gate with a single sword stroke, drawing a blood boundary that no ordinary soldier dared cross. Lu Ji sent nine cultivators to surround him, then revealed a disturbing omen from his divination.

• Lu Yuzheng recognized Jiang Yang as the extraordinary man he had met before and kept working to open the gate.
• Jiang Yang cut down the charging Wu Soldiers with one sword stroke, leaving a ring-shaped furrow of blood before the Pass Gate.
• Lu Ji urged the troops to attack, but those who crossed the blood line fell dead, and the surviving soldiers refused to advance.
• Pei Zhao volunteered to test Jiang Yang, but Lu Ji ordered nine cultivators to attack together and said he and a monk would support them.
• After the nine cultivators flew to surround Jiang Yang, Lu Ji showed the monk his unnaturally twisted finger joints and spoke of his ominous divination.

Jiang Yang faced nine Foundation Establishment cultivators alone and unleashed a sword technique that froze them and stirred every sword in Northern Defense Pass. The True Persons watched in shock as he began to reveal the power of his sword principles.

• Jiang Yang’s swordsmanship impressed the True Persons, and Dongmen Wan Jing admitted that Jiang Yang surpassed him in his youth.
• Lin Xi Yu spotted nine Foundation Establishment cultivators moving to attack Jiang Yang and asked Lu Xinghuai to call him back, but Lu Xinghuai reassured her that reinforcements and General Xiaoyuan would protect him.
• Jiang Yang ignored the retreating Wu Soldiers and advanced toward the nine cultivators, eager to test his sword against opponents of his own realm.
• Pei Zhao called Jiang Yang a senseless sword maniac and ordered the others to kill him, but Jiang Yang’s sword intent left all nine cultivators unable to move.
• Jiang Yang drew his sword and invoked Mysterious Palace Autumn Toad Imperial Supreme Sword, using Autumn’s Arrival as every sword in Northern Defense Pass trembled.

Jiang Yang revealed his sword intent and killed nine Foundation Establishment cultivators with one strike, transforming the snowy battlefield into an autumn landscape. The stunned survivors looked to the Purple Mansion cultivators and the approaching third prince for protection from him.

• Jiang Yang unleashed his new sword intent, [Autumn's Arrival], and Lin Xi Yu took Xuan Yi away while keeping watch over him.
• Jiang Yang killed all nine pursuing Foundation Establishment cultivators with a single sword strike and directed the resulting spirit vigor into the earth.
• Jiang Yang transformed the snow-covered battlefield into a clear autumn landscape, leaving soldiers and cultivators stunned.
• Lu Ji panicked when Jiang Yang looked toward him, and Xinlian reassured him that the Purple Mansion cultivators were watching and the third prince was coming.

Jiang Yang’s sword strike turned the tide at Northern Defense Pass and astonished allies and enemies alike. In the Great Void, Lin Xi Yu discovered a hidden gray-robed figure who envied Rain Xiang Mountain’s two Sword Immortals.

• Jiang Yang replenished his true essence in the apricot grove while Lu Ji and Xinlian held back and waited for reinforcements.
• Tai Pei'er watched Jiang Yang’s sword strike and reflected that events had changed, though they had largely stayed on course.
• Jiang Yang’s strike lifted the Zheng Kingdom cultivators’ morale, while Zhang Yunbai, Qin Dingying, and Dongmen Shu reacted to the display.
• Lin Xiuyi praised Jiang Yang’s potential, and Zhuang Beiwang congratulated Lin Xi Yu and Lin Xiuyi on their sect gaining a Sword Immortal.
• Lin Xi Yu sensed someone hidden in the Great Void, revealed him with her rain divine power, and heard the gray-robed man express envy of Rain Xiang Mountain.

Lu Boyan and Lu Xinghuai confronted each other before their forces withdrew from Northern Defense Pass. Jiang Yang returned to Far-Reaching City, where he rewarded Lu Yuzheng with a Foundation Establishment Pill.

• Lin Xi Yu challenged Lu Boyan’s accusations, and he fell silent when she offered to summon her senior brother.
• Lu Xinghuai arrived and discussed the monks’ involvement and the Chu Kingdom’s ambitions with Lu Boyan before both sides withdrew.
• Jiang Yang recovered in the woods, but True Person Xuan Xi ordered him back to Far-Reaching City before he could confront his opponent.
• Lu Ji grew angry when Third Prince Kui Shuyue arrived late, then left after Xinlian stopped him from provoking the prince.
• Jiang Yang entered Far-Reaching City, praised Lu Yuzheng for standing by his choice, and gave him a box containing a Foundation Establishment Pill.

After the battle, Jiang Yang met with Lin Xi Yu, who reprimanded him for hiding his sword intent and warned him to stay within the spirit array. He received a Heavenly Directorate Token for his military merits, then went to keep his appointment with Tai Pei'er and was recognized at the Tai Residence.

• Jiang Yang returned to Rain Xiang Mountain's quarters and paid his respects to Lin Xi Yu.
• Lin Xi Yu scolded Jiang Yang for not telling her he had attained sword intent and warned him not to leave the spirit array's range when he was alone.
• Lin Xi Yu gave Jiang Yang a Heavenly Directorate Token containing the merits for the Xianyu cultivators he had killed.
• Jiang Yang remembered Tai Pei'er's request to meet him and used his spirit sense to locate the Tai Residence.
• A young man at the entrance recognized Jiang Yang, nearly called him son-in-law, and awkwardly greeted him as Senior.

Jiang Yang met Tai Pei'er at the Tai clan residence, where she warned him to stay cautious after his battle with the Xianyu cultivators. She then revealed the hidden history of the Southern Heng Mountain Foothills and left Jiang Yang suspecting that the Cold Qi True Lord's fall had transformed the region into a frozen wasteland.

• Jiang Yang waited in the Tai clan garden until Tai Pei'er returned from beyond the pass and told him his sword strike had made his name known among the sects and Immortal Race clans.
• Tai Pei'er warned Jiang Yang that the Xianyu cultivators he had slain would target him, and he agreed to heed the True Person's advice.
• Tai Pei'er sealed the room with formation flags, talismans, and a jade ruyi scepter before asking Jiang Yang whether he knew of the Southern Peak Abbey.
• Tai Pei'er explained that the Xianyu Di had once been the Southern Heng Mountain Foothills, where the Ancient Jin Kingdom and Southern Peak Abbey vanished after a great battle.
• Tai Pei'er said later generations believed a True Lord had fallen there, possibly the Cold Qi True Lord, and Jiang Yang connected that theory to the region's unnatural cold and snow.

Tai Pei'er told Jiang Yang that Southern Peak Abbey inherited the ancient Peach Immortal's Longevity Qi Dao Lineage and explained why powerful factions sought the vanished abbey. She began revealing that Zheng, Chu, and Xianyu had planned for centuries around the abbey's return, leaving Jiang Yang waiting for the details.

• Jiang Yang questioned Tai Pei'er about the ancient upheaval, and she argued that Southern Peak Abbey's continued existence proved it had not been destroyed in a battle between True Lords.
• Tai Pei'er asked Jiang Yang to keep her revelations secret, then told him Southern Peak Abbey was once known as Longevity Peak and was connected to his Dao Lineage.
• Tai Pei'er recounted how a Peach Immortal slew the Divine Turtle, established heavenly longevity and the Celestial Court, and founded a Dao Lineage rooted in Peach Radiance.
• Tai Pei'er explained that Southern Peak Abbey had cultivated Longevity Qi through the ages and that the gathered cultivators sought the abbey after its withdrawal from the world.
• Tai Pei'er said True Persons Xuan Xi and Xuan Yi did not know the secret, while Prince Jing knew it, and began explaining that Zheng, Chu, and Xianyu had planned for centuries around the abbey's return.

Xianyu’s leaders discussed the failed assault on Pass Gate and the ruler’s plan to attain the position through Tribulation Qi amid the region’s disasters and warfare. Tai Pei’er explained to Jiang Yang that the ruler was being maneuvered into an attempt that would bring down Southern Peak Abbey whether he succeeded or failed.

• Xianyu cultivators gathered hundreds of Zheng Kingdom dead, confirming that they had been killed in a single, devastating attack.
• Lu Boyan rebuked Lu Ji for losing the chance to seize Pass Gate, while the First Prince assigned the Third Prince to deal with the Sword Immortal from Rain Xiang Mountain.
• The First Prince told Lu Boyan that the King’s practice was nearly complete and that he awaited heaven’s appointed hour; Lu Boyan also learned that nineteen Masters and over a thousand monks had arrived as reinforcements.
• Tai Pei’er told Jiang Yang that Xianyu’s ruler intended to attain the Dao through Tribulation Qi, using the calamities and warfare at the Southern Heng Mountain Foothills.
• Tai Pei’er explained that someone wanted the ruler to attempt attainment but not succeed, and that either outcome would bring down Southern Peak Abbey.

Jiang Yang learned that the factions planned to use the ruler of Xianyu Kingdom and the interplay of fortune and calamity to open Southern Peak Abbey. Tai Pei'er revealed that the abbey held the only two remaining pieces of longevity qi golden nature, the true prize sought by the factions.

• Tai Pei'er explained that the ruler might gain leverage if he attained the Dao, while his failure could be used to shake Southern Peak Abbey loose.
• Tai Pei'er said opening the abbey required fortune, prosperity, and longevity, and explained how the Zheng Kingdom supplied prosperity while the ruler's Tribulation Qi could replace fortune.
• Jiang Yang realized that the ruler of Xianyu Kingdom was being used as Tribulation Qi to fulfill the conditions for opening Southern Peak Abbey.
• Tai Pei'er explained that modern cultivators' lifespans had fallen to less than half those of high antiquity, making longevity exceptionally precious.
• Jiang Yang concluded that the factions sought the abbey's life-extending treasures, and Tai Pei'er revealed that it contained the only two pieces of longevity qi golden nature left beneath the heavens.

Jiang Yang learned why the powers coveted Southern Peak Abbey and realized Tai Pei'er might have been reborn, but chose to accept her without demanding answers. After returning to the palace, he reunited with Zhou Yanwei, the senior brother who had once guided him.

• Tai Pei'er explained that Southern Peak Abbey held the world's only two strands of golden nature, which could offer great benefits and the chance to reincarnate and restore longevity qi.
• Jiang Yang was startled by how much Tai Pei'er knew and concluded that she might have been reborn.
• Tai Pei'er realized Jiang Yang suspected her secret and grew anxious about how he would respond.
• Jiang Yang told Tai Pei'er he would not pry into her secrets, reassuring her that she should remain as she had always been.
• Jiang Yang returned to the palace and joyfully reunited with Zhou Yanwei, who praised his growth and confessed he had worried Jiang Yang might no longer recognize him.

Jiang Yang reunited with Zhou Yanwei and caught up with him over tea, discussing Jiang Yang’s sword strike and their old acquaintances. Zhou Yanwei revealed that he cultivated one of the Twelve Qi: True Qi, known as Bestowing Longevity.

• Jiang Yang and Zhou Yanwei exchanged greetings and went to Zhou Yanwei’s courtyard to talk.
• Zhou Yanwei praised Jiang Yang’s sword strike, saying it had transformed the Autumn Woods beneath the Heavenly Pass and drawn sword cultivators there to study it.
• Jiang Yang said the transformation could last six months to a year if no one destroyed it, startling Zhou Yanwei.
• Jiang Yang credited Zhou Yanwei with helping him begin his Sword Dao and said Fang Xu had been taken in by the Luan-kind and might no longer recognize them.
• After discussing cultivation and Dao lineages, Zhou Yanwei revealed his Azure-white qi and identified it as True Qi, known as Bestowing Longevity.

Jiang Yang learned how Zhou Yanwei’s Pingwu Zhou Lineage survived the fall of the Jin Kingdom and discovered the strengths of the True Qi Dao Lineage. The two agreed to support each other in the coming battles.

• Zhou Yanwei told Jiang Yang that the Pingwu Zhou Lineage had served the fallen Jin Kingdom, then sought protection first from Locust Image Palace and later from Rain Xiang Mountain.
• Zhou Yanwei explained that Great True Person Xiang Fan had defeated Locust Image Palace and forced it to retreat into the Zhao Kingdom, after which the Zhou lineage submitted to Rain Xiang Mountain.
• Zhou Yanwei described True Qi as a balanced Dao Lineage that could support advancement through most of the Eight Qi and help cultivators stabilize their foundations.
• Zhou Yanwei explained that his True Qi foundation could discern mysteries, bind flesh and bone, and preserve life, though it was less suited to spells.
• Zhou Yanwei asked Jiang Yang for support in the coming battles, and Jiang Yang agreed to fight beside him.

Jiang Yang led Rain Xiang Mountain’s cultivators into battle and faced Kui Shuyue, whose strange disaster-based Dao let him evade Jiang Yang’s first attack. The True Persons watching recognized that Kui Shuyue possessed dual immortal foundations, apparently gained by devouring a cultivator of the same rank.

• Jiang Yang led a silent crowd of cultivators out of the city, and they followed him into battle as their foremost younger-generation fighter.
• Lu Ji ordered his forces to charge and sent Kui Shuyue to hold Jiang Yang off.
• Jiang Yang’s presence left a wide space empty on the battlefield until Kui Shuyue attacked him from the sky.
• Jiang Yang’s Sword Qi destroyed Kui Shuyue’s spear, but Kui Shuyue re-formed from gray vapor and attacked again.
• The True Persons identified Kui Shuyue’s dual immortal foundations and suspected he had swallowed a cultivator of the same rank alive.

Kui Shuyue unleashed the Yang-Nine Calamity-Blight Mistlight against Jiang Yang while both committed to killing blows. Jiang Yang was trapped in the mistlight as Kui Shuyue’s spear closed in, but Kui Shuyue was being drained by Jiang Yang’s sword intent.

• Lin Xiuyi and the other True Persons discussed Kui Shuyue’s forced Transformation and the cost of losing his path to divine powers.
• Tai Pei'er fought two Foundation Establishment cultivators and noticed calamity qi gathering in the distant clouds.
• Jiang Yang and Kui Shuyue resumed their battle, with both recognizing the danger posed by the other’s strength.
• Kui Shuyue cast the Yang-Nine Calamity-Blight Mistlight, blinding and immobilizing Jiang Yang as he threw his black spear.
• As the spear neared Jiang Yang, Jiang Yang’s sword intent drained Kui Shuyue’s vitality, cultivation, and lifespan.

Jiang Yang survived Kui Shuyue’s Calamity-Binding Black Spear and broke through the Calamity Veil, then overwhelmed him with sword qi. Kui Shuyue invoked his hidden Fate-Reversing Embryo to recover and boost his power, but after clashing with Jiang Yang he used the technique to escape, wary that Jiang Yang had not revealed his full strength.

• Kui Shuyue used a secret talisman to shield himself from Jiang Yang’s sword intent and threw his Calamity-Binding Black Spear into the Calamity Veil.
• Kui Shuyue believed Jiang Yang was dead, but Jiang Yang emerged from the mist holding the summoned black spear and shattered Kui Shuyue’s defenses with sword qi.
• Kui Shuyue’s injuries silenced his powers, so he activated his hidden second Immortal Foundation and the Fate-Reversing Embryo to restore himself and raise his strength.
• Jiang Yang judged that Kui Shuyue’s empowered state remained within Foundation Establishment and attacked without revealing his second sword intent.
• Kui Shuyue met Jiang Yang’s strike with blood vitality, then used the Fate-Reversing Embryo to re-form himself three hundred zhang away instead of fighting to the death.

Kui Shuyue tried to escape Jiang Yang, but Jiang Yang’s sword intent followed him into the Great Void and killed him despite Kui Bo’an’s intervention. At Gray Pool, Guanzhi met the two Impermanence Envoys, who said they had been waiting for him.

• Kui Shuyue used his Fate-Reversing Embryo and blood energy to recover while fleeing toward Kui Bo’an.
• Jiang Yang spotted Kui Shuyue’s fleeing blood energy and used Silencing the Cold Cicada to strike him from afar.
• Kui Shuyue called for Kui Bo’an, who pulled him into the Great Void, but Jiang Yang’s sword intent followed and reduced him to ash.
• At Gray Pool in Xianyu Kingdom, Guanzhi’s ominous display was interrupted by the arrival of two Impermanence Envoys.
• Guanzhi greeted the envoys, who told him the appointed hour had come and that they had been waiting for him.

Kui Guanzhi prepared to attempt Dao attainment under pressure from the Underworld Constables, while True Persons gathered in the Great Void to witness the rare event. As the tribulation clouds darkened the battlefield, Lu Xinghuai identified Kui Guanzhi’s Calamity Qi path as the ancient demonic Dao called Heavenly Calamity Qi of Scarcity.

• The Underworld Constables urged Kui Guanzhi to attain the Dao and promised to preserve one branch of his bloodline if he failed.
• Kui Guanzhi considered his descendants and Xianyu’s fate before the Underworld Constables invited him to begin.
• Zhuang Beiwang, Dongmen Wan Jing, Lin Xi Yu, and Lin Xiuyi watched the battle and discussed the sword strike that had killed Kui Bo'an.
• The True Persons sensed the tribulation clouds and realized that Kui Guanzhi was attempting Dao attainment.
• The True Persons gathered in the Great Void to observe, and Lu Xinghuai explained that Calamity Qi was called Heavenly Calamity Qi of Scarcity.

Kui Guanzhi began his attempt to prove the Dao of Tribulation Qi as True Persons gathered to watch and ominous black clouds darkened the battlefield below. The chapter ended as he summoned an invisible staircase and prepared to climb it.

• The two Impermanence officials doubted Kui Guanzhi could attain the Dao, though they hoped he would condense some golden nature.
• True Persons gathered near the summit, and Lu Xinghuai recalled the history of the Tribulation Qi lineage.
• A high cultivator from a Grotto-Heaven arrived, prompting speculation that Kui Guanzhi might have a chance to prove his Dao.
• The sky darkened, the battle below faltered, and Tai Pei'er rushed toward Jiang Yang as Xianyu's cultivators began retreating.
• Kui Guanzhi transformed beneath the crow-filled clouds, invoked Heavenly Calamity Descent, and faced the invisible staircase.

At Weiqu Mountain, Kui Guanzhi endured successive calamity-qi divine powers while seeking the Dao, as observers recognized the political schemes behind the manifestation. Unable to gather enough strength for the final step, he shattered his own Six-Yang Skull to create a means of meeting the tribulation.

• At Weiqu Mountain, the manifestation’s Tribulation Qi tore apart the mountain as Kui Guanzhi began seeking the Dao.
• Lin Xi Yu and Lin Xiuyi realized that Zheng and Chu’s centuries of warfare had helped nourish the Great True Person’s manifestation, and suspected the Zheng Royal House knew of the scheme.
• Kui Guanzhi raised the divine powers Fullness Body, Calamity Guilt Sight, and All Enveloped in Gloom, while observers debated his unorthodox path.
• Kui Guanzhi realized he lacked the strength to condense the final divine power and still attain the Dao.
• Kui Guanzhi struck his own head and shattered his Six-Yang Skull, declaring that he would slay himself to forge a way to meet the Tribulation Qi.

Kui Guanzhi shattered his rising sun and burned his five divine powers to forge golden nature, but he died after producing only a single wisp. After the Underworld Constables took the wisp and the divine powers fell, a new upheaval in the Great Void revealed a Mountain Range and a Mysterious Temple.

• Kui Guanzhi used Fate-Reversing Embryo to slay his own body and forge Tribulation Qi, then burned his five divine powers to seek golden nature.
• Kui Guanzhi produced one wisp of golden nature but failed to forge another before his divine powers ran out.
• Kui Guanzhi died after declaring that this was where it ended, and two Underworld Constables seized the golden nature and departed.
• The dark clouds and Tribulation Qi ash dispersed across Xianyu, leaving Cloud-Velvet Black Feathers to fall as the divine powers vanished.
• A figure summoned a Spirit God in the Great Void, and it tore open a fissure that revealed a Mountain Range and a Mysterious Temple.