Recaps

At the Five Elements Sect ruins, Liu Xiyan reunited with Mo Yun and planned to join him for the Blade Tower trial. Xu Zhiyi arrived with Gu Shuiyue and Nangong Ling as teammates, and Nangong Ling approached Mo Yun to continue asking for his autograph under an icy glare.

• Liu Xiyan met Mo Yun at the ruins entrance, and he learned that she had reached mid-stage Core Condensation and wanted to attempt the Blade Tower trial.
• Mo Yun agreed to visit the Blade Tower's original site with Liu Xiyan and told her that a friend and two more teammates might join their group.
• Xu Zhiyi arrived with Gu Shuiyue and Nangong Ling, whom she introduced as her teammates for Mo Yun's group.
• Nangong Ling stepped toward Mo Yun with a writing brush to continue the autograph she had requested before, then shivered as an icy gaze fell on her.

Liu Xiyan confronted Nangong Ling over her interest in Mo Yun, then Mo Yun formed a team with Xu Zhiyi and her companions to enter the Ruins. The group arrived beneath a vast city wall, where Mo Yun sensed energy pouring into his body.

• Liu Xiyan suppressed Nangong Ling with her Middle Core Condensation aura and warned Xu Zhiyi and Nangong Ling to keep their distance from Mo Yun.
• Xu Zhiyi asked Mo Yun to join her team and later agreed to mind her boundaries while seeking his martial guidance.
• Xu Wudi, Lu Chang Kong, Lang Konghuan, and Ye Long invited Mo Yun to join them, but turned to Wen Buyu after learning he had already joined Xu Zhiyi's team.
• A black-robed figure announced the Ruins' rules and opened the Portal for the one hundred qualified disciples.
• Mo Yun and his four teammates entered the Ruins and appeared beneath an enormous city wall, where a vast tide of energy flowed into Mo Yun.

Mo Yun discovered that the Ruins’ Mystic Energy let him passively cultivate and estimated he could reach late core condensation in about a month while saving Black Points. He then reached the Bronze City Gate and set out to find the teammates needed to open it.

• Mo Yun found that Mystic Energy entering his body became pure worldly qi and strengthened his Origin Core, allowing him to cultivate with far greater efficiency inside the Ruins.
• Mo Yun estimated that instinctively circulating the Fundamental Method would let him break through to late core condensation in about a month, though the Black Seal did not absorb the energy.
• Mo Yun decided he could use allocated points near the time of his breakthrough to preserve his foundation and save Black Points for further advancement.
• Mo Yun absorbed the Mystic Energy leaking from the ancient city, then ran along its wall toward the nearest Bronze City Gate.
• Mo Yun extended his perception, located a teammate in a village ten kilometers away, and used Wind Riding to hurry there.

Mo Yun joined Liu Xiyan in the Ruins and helped clear a village of aberrations, revealing that his strength had reached middle core condensation. After Liu Xiyan explained the team and individual merit-point rewards, Mo Yun set off northwest, sensing their teammates nearby.

• Mo Yun found Liu Xiyan fighting aberrations in a ruined village and saw her quickly defeat even powerful ones.
• Mo Yun joined the fight, destroyed the remaining aberrations, and Liu Xiyan realized his cultivation had reached middle core condensation.
• Mo Yun sensed that killing aberrations slightly strengthened his divine soul, though the benefit was small and did not charge the Black Seal.
• Liu Xiyan told Mo Yun that clearing aberrations and exploring unknown areas earned contribution points, with large rewards for the top team and individual.
• Mo Yun and Liu Xiyan agreed to pursue first place and head northwest to find their teammates, following Mo Yun's sense of their location.

Mo Yun and Liu Xiyan rescued Xu Zhiyi from a coordinated group of eerie creatures and agreed to help her improve her combat skills. The three headed southwest to find their remaining teammates, and Liu Xiyan was stunned when Mo Yun sensed them from thirteen to sixteen miles away.

• Mo Yun and Liu Xiyan cleared a village of eerie creatures and continued searching for their teammates.
• They found Xu Zhiyi wounded while fighting a large, coordinated group of eerie creatures in a mountain forest.
• Mo Yun and Liu Xiyan killed the group's nine middle core condensation leaders first, then wiped out the remaining creatures before any escaped.
• Mo Yun learned that Xu Zhiyi had faced nearly three hundred eerie creatures and asked why she had not targeted the leaders earlier; she admitted she had started with easier enemies and been caught by their formation.
• Xu Zhiyi asked Mo Yun and Liu Xiyan to teach her, and both agreed to help her learn from experience.
• The three set off southwest toward their two remaining teammates, and Liu Xiyan nearly stumbled when Mo Yun said he could sense them from thirteen to sixteen miles away.

Mo Yun and his companions rescued Gu Shuiyue and Nangong Ling, then reached the Bronze City Gate, where they prepared to open it. Another group rushed up and demanded they wait so three teams could claim the top spots.

• Mo Yun led Liu Xiyan and Xu Zhiyi through several battles and realized the eerie creatures seemed stronger and more numerous than in previous years.
• Mo Yun, Liu Xiyan, and Xu Zhiyi rescued Gu Shuiyue and Nangong Ling, whose group had been struggling against the creatures.
• Gu Shuiyue identified Liu Xiyan as a likely Blade Tower disciple, and Liu Xiyan confirmed she was the lineage's eldest senior sister with two and a half disciples in her generation.
• Mo Yun led the five to the Bronze City Gate and explained how they could open it by channeling their true essence into its five recesses.
• A group arrived and demanded that Mo Yun's team delay opening the gate so three teams could take the top three spots.

Mo Yun’s team opened the bronze city gates after Liu Xiyan and Mo Yun swiftly defeated a group that tried to claim priority. As Xu Wudi and his companions arrived, the gates began to open and the teams waited to enter.

• A burly leader named Senior Brother Zuo demanded that his three teams be allowed through the bronze city gates first, but Mo Yun’s group ignored him and continued activating the gate array.
• Liu Xiyan struck Senior Brother Zuo with a single blade attack, and Mo Yun knocked down the rest of his group with a golden fist imprint.
• Liu Xiyan said she had nearly failed to hold back, while Mo Yun and the others returned their attention to the gates; Nangong Ling privately resolved to challenge Liu Xiyan years later.
• Mo Yun spotted Xu Wudi, Lu Chang Kong, Lang Konghuan, Ye Long, and Wen Buyu approaching, and they stopped when they recognized his group.
• The bronze city gates slowly opened as Xu Wudi’s group waited with Mo Yun’s team.

Mo Yun and his companions entered the Ruins of the Five Elements Sect and cultivated in the rich vital energy while planning to explore the safer Outer City. The Black-and-White Seal reacted to something in the distant inner city, where Orange Cat and the figure in Crimson Battle Armor awaited Mo Yun, convinced he would come.

• The Bronze City Gate transported Mo Yun, Liu Xiyan, and their companions inside, then closed for half an hour while its array recharged.
• Xu Zhiyi explained that the gate could transport only five people at a time, and Mo Yun urged the group to cultivate before others arrived.
• Liu Xiyan warned Mo Yun that the Blade Tower lay near the dangerous Inner City, while Mo Yun sensed the Black-and-White Seal responding to something within the magnificent city.
• Mo Yun decided to clear the Outer City and visit the Blade Tower rather than risk confronting powerful Eerie in the inner city.
• Orange Cat and the figure in Crimson Battle Armor discussed Mo Yun's arrival and declared that fate had already arranged for him to come to them.

Mo Yun and his team finished cultivating outside the bronze gates and planned to hunt eldritch creatures before Liu Xiyan’s Blade Tower trial. When Xu Wudi’s team caught up to join them, they were left dumbstruck by what they saw.

• Mo Yun’s team discussed their cultivation gains, and Liu Xiyan learned that killing eldritch creatures could strengthen her divine soul.
• Mo Yun suggested spending nine and a half days hunting eldritch creatures before Liu Xiyan began her twenty-day Blade Tower trial, then revealed that his perception could detect creatures over a range greater than forty or fifty li.
• Xu Wudi, Lu Chang Kong, Lang Konghuan, Ye Long, and Wen Buyu entered through the bronze gates, where Liu Xiyan confronted them about their earlier talk of fighting Mo Yun’s team.
• Mo Yun led his teammates toward the nearest eldritch creatures and told them to follow his commands.
• Xu Wudi’s team decided to follow Mo Yun’s team so they could support one another against the increasingly powerful eldritch creatures, but they were dumbstruck when they caught up.

Xu Wudi's squad watched Mo Yun and his companions easily defeat a huge pack of eerie creatures, then decided to hunt a pack of their own. Mo Yun led his group deeper into the ruins, promising more cultivation gains and a reward of two hundred thousand merit points each.

• Xu Wudi's squad found Mo Yun's group fighting 153 eerie creatures, including 45 at middle core condensation, and prepared to help.
• Xu Wudi's squad saw Mo Yun shatter creatures with casual punches and Liu Xiyan cut down even middle core condensation creatures with her blade.
• After deciding the creatures looked weak enough for them to handle, Xu Wudi's squad left to find another pack.
• Mo Yun's group discussed how easily they had killed the creatures, while Liu Xiyan said some had taken two strikes and Mo Yun said he had used the battle to practice martial arts.
• Mo Yun urged everyone to continue toward the core, gather vital energy, and clear enough creatures to earn each squad member two hundred thousand merit points.

Xu Wudi and his companions were overwhelmed by powerful eeries until Mo Yun’s group arrived to rescue them. After clearing most of the Ruins’ outer region over nine days, Mo Yun and Liu Xiyan set out for the Inner City, leaving Xu Zhiyi behind because they considered them too weak.

• Xu Wudi, Lu Chang Kong, and their companions struggled to break through a swarm of eeries, regretting that they had underestimated the danger.
• Mo Yun, Liu Xiyan, Xu Zhiyi, Gu Shuiyue, and Nangong Ling arrived, and Lu Chang Kong and Ye Long called on Mo Yun for help.
• Over nine days, Mo Yun and his companions cleared more than ninety percent of the eeries in the outer region while the others followed and dealt with stragglers.
• Mo Yun and Liu Xiyan prepared to enter the Inner City for the Blade Tower Ruins Site, and Xu Zhiyi offered to accompany them.
• Mo Yun and Liu Xiyan told Xu Zhiyi they were too weak to come along, then said goodbye and headed into the Inner City.

Mo Yun and Liu Xiyan reached the Inner City, where Mo Yun used black points to advance his Geng Metal Art and break through to late core condensation. They entered through a ruined gate and headed toward the Blade Tower Ruins Site as Mo Yun discovered that the Inner City’s denser origin energy could accelerate his cultivation.

• Mo Yun and Liu Xiyan approached the Inner City walls, where Mo Yun sensed terrifying battle auras and warned himself not to go near the towering building in the distance.
• Liu Xiyan worried that stronger Inner City aberrations could overwhelm them, while Mo Yun reassured her that he had not yet fought at full strength and had 880 black points saved.
• Mo Yun spent 580 black points to complete his Geng Metal Art upgrade, then planned to use passive cultivation gains to reduce the cost of future breakthroughs.
• Mo Yun and Liu Xiyan found the Inner City gate broken and discussed why powerful aberrations did not leave their designated areas.
• After passing through the gate, Mo Yun felt the denser origin energy and saw that his cultivation had reached late core condensation, while Liu Xiyan led him toward the Blade Tower Ruins Site.

After reaching late core condensation, Mo Yun used new white points to raise his life value and realized his strengthened divine soul could make the Primordial Unity barrier easy to cross, giving him the potential to become a Martial Saint. When he and Liu Xiyan met a squad of bronze-armored eerie creatures, Mo Yun swiftly destroyed its two peak core condensation leaders with his bare fists.

• Mo Yun checked his attributes after breaking through to late core condensation and found his physical strength and Rule Power had increased greatly.
• Mo Yun spent ninety white points on his life value, strengthening his divine soul and concluding that he had the potential of a Martial Saint.
• Liu Xiyan noticed Mo Yun's aura had grown stronger, and Mo Yun joked that he might have broken through while traveling.
• Mo Yun and Liu Xiyan encountered twenty-four bronze-armored eerie creatures, including two at peak core condensation.
• Mo Yun charged ahead and smashed the two peak core condensation eerie creatures into black light before Liu Xiyan could act.

Mo Yun and Liu Xiyan reached the Blade Mound, where entering the Mountain Manor unexpectedly started Mo Yun's trial. The trial opened with a blinding attack that killed him instantly.

• Mo Yun slaughtered an Eerie squad, then he and Liu Xiyan fought through three more waves as they traveled toward the Blade Mound.
• Mo Yun and Liu Xiyan reached the Mountain Manor and entered it to rest before beginning the trial the next day.
• Mo Yun's crimson token, marked [Greedy Wolf], began to glow; elsewhere, Orange Cat and the Crimson Battle Armor discussed how the token would draw him to them.
• Entering the Mountain Manor transported Mo Yun to a trial plain, and the trial began automatically when he failed to answer its prompt.
• A streak of light struck Mo Yun, severing part of his skull and killing him.

Mo Yun struggled through the Blade Mound’s first trial while learning from its old guardian that Blade Dao mastery depended on comprehension, not physical aptitude. After passing the trial and improving his attributes, he sensed that the crimson token he had found held a secret.

• Mo Yun endured three days of repeated deaths in the Blade Mound trial until the old man told him the nine Ancient Blades tested comprehension and that he had understood the Origin Returning Blade Canon.
• The old man explained that Blade Saints in the Sixth Realm were far below the true summit, and admitted Mo Yun had already passed the first trial.
• The old man infused Mo Yun with blade intent and momentum, advancing his Origin Returning Blade Canon and Blade-Nurturing Art to minor accomplishment.
• Mo Yun spent his twenty white points on life value, raising it to 518 and improving his bone root, comprehension, perception, and other attributes.
• Mo Yun examined the crimson token and realized it might be a treasure.

Mo Yun discovered that the token he had taken from an eerie patrol squad was the Greedy Wolf Token, a supreme-grade storage artifact, and learned more about the ancient city and the Blade Tomb Lineage. After the old man revealed that Mo Yun’s Origin Returning Blade Canon was incomplete, Mo Yun eagerly asked to begin the second trial, while a figure in the Inner City noticed his lost connection to the token.

• Mo Yun unlocked the Greedy Wolf Token’s storage space, and the old man identified it as the Greedy Wolf Army commander’s artifact from Greedy Wolf City.
• The old man explained the city’s past, said the Blade Mound could protect Mo Yun, and taught him that Void-Breaking was the Seventh Realm and Heaven’s Mandate was the Sixth.
• Mo Yun bound his divine soul to the token, changed it into a thumb ring, and learned that the old man’s cultivation knowledge only extended to the Seventh Realm.
• The old man realized that Mo Yun’s Origin Returning Blade Canon lacked the Seventh Realm method and promised to teach him the complete canon after the trials.
• Mo Yun asked the old man to start the second trial, while Crimson Battle Armor noticed his connection to the Greedy Wolf Token had vanished and considered visiting the Blade Mound.

Mo Yun advanced through the Blade Tomb trial, improving his cultivation and deciding to spend more time challenging its increasingly difficult stages. On the twenty-first day, he prepared to face the ninth and final strike before the Ruins teleported him away.

• After passing five stages and receiving four infusion baptisms, Mo Yun advanced his Origin Returning Blade Canon and Blade-Nurturing Art to mastery, then spent all 80 white points on his life value.
• Worried he would run out of time, Mo Yun cut an hour from his daily visualization and asked the old man to extend his trials.
• The old man revealed that few challengers had passed more than five stages, then began Mo Yun's sixth strike, which killed him instantly.
• Mo Yun continued the trials until the twenty-first day and prepared for the ninth strike, the final stage.
• The old man explained that Mo Yun had to withstand the ninth strike for fifteen minutes to clear the trial, and Mo Yun urged him to begin before he was teleported away.

Mo Yun survived the Blade Mound trial’s full fifteen strikes, earned the complete Origin Returning Blade Canon, and learned the Trial Space would close for a hundred years. After he was teleported away, Orange Cat confronted the Crimson Battle Armor for failing to bring him back.

• Mo Yun broke through the Trial Spirit Elder’s ninth strike and endured the elder’s attacks through the fifteenth, completing the Blade Mound’s ultimate trial.
• The Trial Spirit Elder restored Mo Yun, passed on the complete Origin Returning Blade Canon and its Star River Refinement secret art, and revealed that the Trial Space would need a hundred years to recover.
• Mo Yun checked his Blade Dao cultivation, learned it had reached Fourth Tier Peak, and worried that the Blade Tower’s disciples would lose access to the trials.
• The Trial Spirit Elder sent Mo Yun out of the Trial Space, then mourned that the Blade Mound’s legacy might flourish without the Village Master seeing it.
• Orange Cat angrily accused the Crimson Battle Armor of failing to bring Mo Yun back, while the armor explained that Mo Yun could return using the Greedy Wolf Token.

After returning from the Ruins, Mo Yun learned that the other disciples regarded his team as the clear winners and credited him with saving them from the Eerie. Liu Xiyan described her own Trial and its collapse, while Mo Yun kept his advanced Trial secret as the Inner Elder arrived to announce the results.

• The disciples celebrated their cultivation gains and predicted that Mo Yun's team had won first place because it had defeated most of the Eerie and protected the others.
• The disciples thanked Mo Yun for saving them, and Liu Xiyan and the others rejoined him while they waited for the Trial results.
• Xu Wudi asked what Mo Yun had encountered in the Inner City, and Mo Yun vaguely described being scattered across different places.
• Liu Xiyan told Mo Yun that she had completed six stages of a monster-fighting Trial, gained Blade Intent and Blade Momentum, and watched the Trial Space shatter before she returned safely.
• Mo Yun realized that he and Liu Xiyan had experienced different Trials and delayed explaining his advanced Trial when the Inner Elder arrived to announce the results.

The black-robed elder announced Mo Yun’s team had won the ruins trial and awarded Mo Yun an additional merit-point prize for his performance. After warning everyone to keep the ruins’ unknown changes secret, Mo Yun left with Liu Xiyan to share his discovery about the Blade Tower’s legacy with Aunt Bai and the old Blade Saint.

• The black-robed elder announced that Mo Yun, Liu Xiyan, Xu Zhiyi, Gu Shuiyue, and Nangong Ling had won the team prize, while Mo Yun received the individual award.
• Mo Yun told Lu Chang Kong and the others that he ate spirit rice and demon beast meat at the Dining Hall because the sect covered his meals, while Xu Zhiyi received a discount and Liu Xiyan cooked for herself.
• Liu Xiyan invited the others to visit the Blade Tower, and Mo Yun privately recalled his previous breakfast there.
• The black-robed elder summarized the exploration and told the participants to keep the unknown changes in the ruins secret.
• Mo Yun said goodbye to Xu Zhiyi and the others, then went with Liu Xiyan to tell Aunt Bai and the old Blade Saint about his discovery concerning the Blade Tower’s legacy.

After leaving the Ruins, Mo Yun spent his new white points to raise his life value and assessed his progress toward further breakthroughs. He then summoned Liu Xiyan, Lin Qingxue, Bai Zhi, and the Blade Saint beneath the Sixth Ancient Blade to tell them something important.

• Mo Yun added 110 white points to his life value, raising it to 708 and improving his physical qualities and perception.
• Mo Yun checked that he still needed 290 black points to advance the Geng Metal Art and estimated he was about half a month from peak core condensation.
• Mo Yun followed Liu Xiyan to the Blade Tower and asked her to gather Bai Zhi and the Blade Saint, saying he had something important to share.
• Liu Xiyan called out that something terrible had happened, then Mo Yun located Lin Qingxue and joined the others beneath the Sixth Ancient Blade.
• The Blade Saint had improved after cultivating the Blade-Nurturing Art, though he remained weak, and he asked Mo Yun whether there was a problem with the Ruins.

Mo Yun told Ge Xuanyi, Liu Xiyan, and Bai Zhi that the Origin Returning Blade Canon was incomplete and revealed that its full version included a Seventh Realm cultivation method and the Star River Refinement Secret Art. After clearing the advanced trial, Mo Yun received the complete canon and began teaching it to the Blade Tower elders.

• Liu Xiyan explained that Mo Yun and she had visited the Ruins and completed a trial at the Blade Tower Ruins Site.
• Ge Xuanyi celebrated when Mo Yun said he had cleared every stage, then learned that Mo Yun had taken the advanced trial under the guidance of a trial spirit.
• Mo Yun explained that the full Origin Returning Blade Canon included a Seventh Realm cultivation method and the Star River Refinement Secret Art.
• Ge Xuanyi warned Mo Yun that the Seventh Realm method was too valuable for the Blade Tower to compensate him, while Bai Zhi offered to become his personal guard.
• Mo Yun rejected any talk of compensation, said they were family who should help one another, and began teaching the complete canon.

At the Blade Tower, Mo Yun explained the Seventh Realm teachings from the Origin Returning Blade Canon, revealing differences in how well the listeners understood them. He then introduced Star River Refinement, a secret art that could help the Blade Tower expand its cultivation resources.

• Ge Xuanyi praised the Seventh Realm method and began contemplating it after discussing its teachings with Mo Yun.
• Bai Zhi and Liu Xiyan struggled to understand the Seventh Realm teachings, while Lin Qingxue and Ge Xuanyi showed stronger comprehension.
• Mo Yun urged Bai Zhi and Liu Xiyan to focus on reaching the limits of the Sixth Realm, easing their disappointment.
• Mo Yun introduced Star River Refinement as a method that used Stellar Power to temper blade intent and blade momentum alongside the Blade-Nurturing Art.
• Ge Xuanyi and Bai Zhi realized Star River Refinement could reduce the Blade Tower's reliance on Blade Peak and the Nine-Story Tower.

Mo Yun taught Star River Refinement to the Blade Tower, and Lin Qingxue, Ge Xuanyi, Bai Zhi, and Liu Xiyan learned to use solar power to cultivate and temper their bodies. The Blade Tower’s future looked brighter, while Mo Yun fled Liu Xiyan’s offer to cook for him and Bai Zhi promised him a surprise in a month.

• After Mo Yun explained Star River Refinement, Lin Qingxue quickly grasped it and began cultivating with power drawn from the Sun.
• Ge Xuanyi used the art to strengthen his blade momentum and renew his damaged body, then vowed to repay Mo Yun for saving him.
• Lin Qingxue explained why the art’s body-tempering effects were especially strong for Ge Xuanyi, while Bai Zhi and Liu Xiyan also learned to draw in solar power.
• Bai Zhi celebrated the Blade Tower’s renewed prospects and her confidence that she could attain the Dao as a Blade Saint; Mo Yun reminded everyone to keep absorbing blade intent and blade momentum from the Blade Tower and Blade Peak.
• Liu Xiyan offered to cook for Mo Yun, who hurried away after saying, “Another day. Next time, definitely.”
• Bai Zhi stopped Mo Yun and promised to prepare a surprise for him in a month.

Mo Yun discussed the damaged Blade Tower Trial Space with Bai Zhi and Lin Qingxue, then visited Xiao Changfeng to report on the Secret Realm and his breakthrough. He and Lin Qingxue planned to reach the next stage of cultivation before the New Year and return home together.

• Bai Zhi told Mo Yun she planned to make him a Blade Talisman after breaking through to Blade Saint in about a month, and Mo Yun warned her not to risk her breakthrough.
• Mo Yun explained that his Blade Mound trial had nearly destroyed the Trial Space, which would take about a hundred years to repair; Lin Qingxue said she did not need the trials and thanked him for helping the Blade Tower.
• Lin Qingxue noticed Mo Yun had reached the fourth tier peak in blade dao cultivation, and Mo Yun urged her to reach the fourth tier before the New Year so they could return home together.
• Mo Yun visited Xiao Changfeng, recounted the Secret Realm expedition, and revealed that he had advanced a stage in cultivation.
• Xiao Changfeng told Mo Yun that problems with the Secret Realm array would suspend its trials for several years, and Mo Yun resolved to reach the Primordial Unity Realm before the New Year.