Recaps

Nie Yun defeated the sect leaders, exposed Yun Xuan’s plot, and forced the Eight Great Sects into Huayun Sect before facing the Demon Emperors. After Mi Jing died protecting him, Nie Yun spared Mi Hua to save Ming Lanxin and went with Tantai Lingyue to find Xia Xing.

• Nie Yun seized the Qingyun Sect and Jingtian Sect seals, defeated their leaders, and revealed his identity as the former Huayun Sect disciple Yun Feng.
• Mi Jing and several women supported Nie Yun as he fought Mi Hua, Yun Xuan, Zi Xin, and Yun Yang, killing Zi Xin and Yun Yang and overcoming Yun Xuan’s Great Scholar’s Sea of Words.
• Nie Yun exposed Yun Xuan’s alliance with the Netherworld Phoenix Clan and used Huayun Sect’s formation to force the Eight Great Sects to merge, then killed Yun Xuan when the Eighteen Demon Emperors demanded her release.
• Tantai Lingyue joined Nie Yun against the Azure Scale Demon Emperor, but Old Drunkard and Thousand Illusions arrived and captured the demons.
• Nie Yun proposed turning the eight great sects into Huayun Sect halls while preserving their lineages, then revealed all eight Sect Master’s Seals when Mi Hua opposed him.
• Heaven manifested in answer to Nie Yun’s prayer, and the sects knelt after lightning formed the character “King”, and Nie Yun defeated Mi Hua but spared him at Mi Jing’s request.
• Mi Hua’s soul sacrifice summoned Yan Zhi and a colossal face, whose attack struck Mi Jing and killed her as she begged Nie Yun to spare her brother.
• After Yi Qing explained that killing Mi Hua would also kill her mother, Ming Lanxin, Nie Yun imprisoned Mi Hua in the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion and went with Tantai Lingyue to find Xia Xing.

Nie Yun uncovered the route to the Spirit Realm, reunited with his family, and lost Tantai Lingyue after finding Daoist Diesheng’s scripture. He returned to Huayun Sect, strengthened its disciples, and seized a soul-gathering treasure while Old Drunkard prepared to seek the ninth Sect Master’s Seal.

• Old Drunkard explained the Big Dipper Star Mansion, the Heaven-Ascending Ladder, and his plan to use the Seven Swords, Sect Master’s Seals, and forty-nine experts to reach the Spirit Realm.
• Nie Yun surpassed Old Drunkard in soul range, fought him to a draw, healed Xia Quan and the other ancestors, and reunited with his family.
• Nie Yun brought his family back to the united Huayun Sect, then reached the peak of the Void Breaking Realm after his tribulation with Tantai Lingyue.
• Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue entered the Myriad Tide Thunder Sea, found Daoist Diesheng’s scripture, and Nie Yun recited Carefree Wandering before Tantai Lingyue returned to her family.
• Nie Yun developed a plan to combine his talents, taught the Battle Soul Technique and other martial arts to Huayun Sect, and agreed to help Yi Qing investigate Mishin Sect’s Sacrifice Ground.
• Nie Yun, Yi Qing, and Luo Qingcheng crossed the Seven Floating Bridge Trials and found the Black and White Twin Fiends preparing a soul offering for the Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor.
• Nie Yun seized the Soul Gathering Spirit Pearl, subdued the Twin Fiends, and learned that the Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor had slaughtered a domain to gather Vengeful Souls.
• After finding no way to save Yi Qing’s mother, Nie Yun learned Old Drunkard needed the ninth Sect Master’s Seal and secretly met him and Thousand Illusions in the Void Turbulence.

Nie Yun entered the Demonfolk World to find the Sect Master's Seal, but the Strength God Competition led him into the Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor’s possession ritual and a clash with Netherworld envoys. After escaping with the Seal and capturing the Saint Emperor, he prepared an expedition to the Big Dipper Star Mansion, which he recognized as the site of his death in a previous life.

• Nie Yun, Old Drunkard, and Thousand Illusions entered the Demonfolk World through the Void Turbulence and disguised themselves to enter Saint Emperor City.
• Nie Yun learned that the Strength God Competition offered a route into Saint Emperor Palace, defeated the contestants, and won one of the five places in the palace.
• Nie Yun discovered that the Saint Emperor Talisman carried a powerful Soul Imprint, then resisted the sacred light while searching the palace treasury for the Sect Master's Seal.
• Nie Yun and his companions looted the treasury, found a Yun Xuan lookalike, and were confronted by the Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor, who revealed that Yun Xuan was her avatar.
• The Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor captured Nie Yun and began a ritual to let Netherworld experts possess the finalists, but Tantai Lingyue’s jade pendant drew the invading soul inside.
• Nie Yun woke after completing his fifth nirvana, posed as Lord Ming Jiang, took the Sect Master's Seal, and escaped by redirecting his Spirit Breaking Tribulation toward Ming Hong and Ming Xin.
• Nie Yun captured the Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor, returned to the Floating Sky Continent, and made her reveal that she came from the Spirit Realm Phoenix King's blood and had created Yun Xuan as a pawn.
• Nie Yun trained the human race for a month, then led fifty peak Dantian Acupoint Realm experts toward the Big Dipper Star Mansion, which he recognized as the place where he had died in his previous life.

Nie Yun led his companions through Myriad Realms Mountain, rescuing Luo Qingcheng from Emerald Sword Palace and defeating Ming Hong’s ambush. After reaching the Big Dipper Star Palace, he passed its first trial and faced a scholar who challenged his chosen path to the Spirit Realm.

• Nie Yun led his companions through Myriad Realms Mountain’s deadly layers, gaining new powers and reaching the Sword Heart World, where he discovered that Luo Qingcheng was to be forced into marriage with Jiang She.
• Disguised as Luo Qingcheng, Nie Yun infiltrated the wedding and used the succession ritual to raise his soul to three thousand gradients, while redirecting some of the inheritance to Luo Qingcheng.
• Nie Yun uncovered Ming Hong and Ming Xin’s plan to ambush his companions, subdued the three sword palace sect masters, and led the group through the sixth-level gate.
• Nie Yun defeated the Flame King, crossed the Weak Water Space, and entered the ninth level, where he foiled Ming Hong and Ming Xin’s formation and captured Ming Hong.
• Nie Yun learned that a blood sacrifice could grow the Prosperity Tree, but refused to let his companions die and instead used Lingxi Spring Water to raise the tree into the Big Dipper Star Palace.
• Nie Yun and his companions crossed the Void Dark Gold Flow and entered the Star Palace, where the Heart-Bewitching Demonic Flute killed two elders before Nie Yun defeated its guardian, Gu Xiu.
• After receiving the flute, Nie Yun joined his companions and told a Confucian scholar that he sought a path to the Spirit Realm, refusing to abandon his chosen road despite the scholar’s warning.