Recaps

Jiang Yang prepared for the coming war, strengthened his ties with Tai Pei'er and Chu Qingjian, and helped arrange resources for his companions. As the sect’s forces entered the Northern Di, Tai Pei'er fought off a group of Foundation Establishment cultivators until Zhao Evening Glow intervened.

• Jiang Yang met Tai Fuwei, learned why the Tai had to send cultivators to war, and promised to protect any Tai clan members assigned under his command.
• Jiang Yang visited the family that had once helped him, returned to Rain Xiang Mountain, and gave Chu Qingjian the spirit thunders from Dragonkind.
• Chu Qingjian confessed her feelings to Jiang Yang, who admitted that he liked her but had already promised himself to Shang Qingzheng.
• Jiang Yang refined his Autumn Response Sword Essence into sword intent, then worked with Bi Xingjian to harvest Crimson Mansion Cloud Whirlpool Lotuses and accelerate the growth of the Twin Lotus.
• Jiang Yang gave lotuses and a secret art to Chu Qingjian and Shang Qingzheng as the sect prepared to send forces to the frontier.
• Xuan Yi led the first contingent into Northern Bulwark Pass, while Jiang Yang joined the later contingent under Xuan Xi and met Jiang Junrui and Qingyan aboard the warship.
• Xuan Xi briefed Jiang Yang, Jiang Junrui, and Qingyan on the campaign, while Tai Pei'er fought Northern Di cultivators who sought to capture her Taiyin Dao lineage.
• Tai Pei'er held off four attackers until Zhao Evening Glow froze them with her Crimson Rite, Measured Mystic Wind, giving Tai Pei'er an opening to badly wound their leader as the others tried to flee.

Jiang Yang revealed his sword intent in battle and learned that Xianyu’s wars were tied to a plan to open Southern Peak Abbey. As Kui Guanzhi failed to attain the Dao and died, a fissure opened in the Great Void, revealing a Mountain Range and a Mysterious Temple.

• Jiang Yang killed nine Foundation Establishment cultivators with [Autumn's Arrival], transforming the battlefield and earning renown as a Sword Immortal.
• Tai Pei'er told Jiang Yang that Southern Peak Abbey was tied to his Dao Lineage and that the kingdoms’ long-planned conflict aimed to bring the abbey back into reach.
• Jiang Yang reunited with Zhou Yanwei, who revealed his True Qi foundation and asked Jiang Yang to fight beside him.
• Jiang Yang defeated Kui Shuyue in battle, pursuing him into the Great Void and killing him with sword intent.
• Kui Guanzhi began seeking the Dao through Tribulation Qi as the True Persons gathered to witness his attempt.
• Kui Guanzhi shattered his Six-Yang Skull and burned his divine powers to forge golden nature, but produced only one wisp before he died.
• Two Underworld Constables took Kui Guanzhi’s golden nature as the tribulation clouds dispersed across Xianyu.
• A figure summoned a Spirit God in the Great Void, which opened a fissure revealing a Mountain Range and a Mysterious Temple.

Jiang Yang and Tai Pei'er entered the Southern Peak Grotto-Heaven seeking a Tao Spring, where they found treasures and faced a disguised Calamity Crow. After Jiang Yang saved Tai Pei'er at great cost, Lin Xi Yu brought them to Far-Reaching City, where they sought a way to revive her.

• Lu Xinghuai widened the grotto-heaven entrance with the Myriad Forms Boundary Map, and Lin Xi Yu and other True Persons entered as Jiang Yang and Tai Pei'er set out for the realm through the Great Void.
• Jiang Yang and Tai Pei'er searched an Immortal Island, found a Spirit Artifact gourd, a Wooden Sword, spirit flame, and spirit water, then entered the Scripture Repository and found a Taiyin cultivation art.
• Jiang Yang and Tai Pei'er found the Clear-Heaven Spring and encountered a wounded crane that was actually the Calamity Crow, who tried to seize Tai Pei'er’s body with its Golden Nature.
• Tai Pei'er froze herself and the Golden Feather with the Moon-Cold Curse, while Jiang Yang used the Hub-Cutting Profound Light to destroy the Calamity Crow at the cost of about thirty years of his lifespan.
• Jiang Yang used Golden Osmanthus Moon Medicine to preserve Tai Pei'er, and they recovered in the spring until Lin Xi Yu found and rescued them after the grotto-heaven’s collapse.
• Lin Xi Yu took Jiang Yang and Tai Pei'er to Far-Reaching City, where she diagnosed Tai Pei'er’s false death and arranged for Tai Fuwei to help find a cure.
• Jiang Yang examined the treasures he had brought back and discovered his cultivation had reached Foundation Establishment peak, while Tai Fuwei arrived and heard how Tai Pei'er had been injured.

Jiang Yang reached the Purple Mansion, created Zhiyang as a calamity-bearing avatar, and emerged from seclusion to announce his attainment of divine powers. As he registered with the Nether Bureau, he discovered that Bai Tang had reincarnated in Broad Mulberry Valley and that Zhiyang could wield his sword intent.

• Lu Xinghuai promised to seek help for Tai Pei'er, but learned that Zhuang Beiwang had already redeemed the heart-penetrating Prosperity Qi.
• Jiang Yang received the God-Forming Prosperity Cloud, returned to Rain Xiang Mountain, and chose Zhouhui Valley for his Purple Mansion retreat.
• Jiang Yang and Shang Qingzheng spent time together at Clearwave Retreat, and she confessed her feelings before he entered seclusion.
• Jiang Yang consumed his prepared treasures, reached the Purple Mansion, and gained the innate gift Plum Takes Peach's Place.
• Xuan Guang consulted Jiang Mangqing and the Dao Master about the Yi Wood position, then chose to follow the yin path of the Five Woods.
• After years of cultivation, Jiang Yang created Zhiyang with the God-Forming Prosperity Cloud and announced his attainment of divine powers.
• Cultivators and envoys arrived to congratulate Jiang Yang, and Ying Huang delivered a letter from Yun Zhen.
• Jiang Yang registered Conjoined Branch with the Underworld Constables, learned Bai Tang had reincarnated in Broad Mulberry Valley, and found that Zhiyang could wield Daybreak Separation Sword Intent.