Recaps

Xu Xuan claimed the Great Wilderness Sea for Mingdu, defeated Yue Heng, and set his sights on establishing himself in the Southern Nether Celestial Pool. He then pursued the Yuejue Sword Book, gained its Free and Unfettered Journey method, and reached Peaceful Mountain, where the Origin-Victory Stele began to reveal a connection to upper successive union.

• Xu Xuan took in the persecuted Coral Merfolk, demanded compensation from the sea’s factions, and challenged their leaders on Elephant Earth Island.
• Xu Xuan exposed Han Qingfeng’s false claim, killed Ying Qian, defeated Yue Heng, and destroyed the Han Household as Mu Hei and the South Mist clans joined his side.
• Xu Xuan claimed the Han Household’s treasures, founded Mingdu, and met Dragon Prince Lanqing, who explained the old divide between South Mist and the Eastern Sea.
• Xu Xuan enslaved the unreclaimed Yakshas, entrusted the Nether Sea to Yang Yuanxin and Lu Lian, and entered seclusion while his disciples advanced and the Peaceful Sword Sect summoned him.
• Xu Xuan traveled with Lü Guan to the Li-Liao frontier, refused Song Shiqing’s offer to serve the King of Misty Mountain, and witnessed the Yuejue Sword Book manifest.
• Xu Xuan fought Liu Qi amid the battlefield’s collapse, entered the Yuejue Sword Book, learned Free and Unfettered Journey, and memorized the Sword Exposition on Life-and-Death Qi.
• True Person No Doubt rescued Xu Xuan and Lü Guan and sent them to Yue, where Lü Guan brought Xu Xuan to Peaceful Mountain and introduced him to Ying Liu and True Person Qingyue.
• Xu Xuan struck the Origin-Victory Stele with his tribulation sword intent, revealing Calamity-Splitting as the name upper successive union began to form.

Xu Xuan uncovered the forces behind the Hollow Sword Gate conflict and led an assault on Wu Heyong and Liang Xilan with Wei Yan and his allies. The battle opened a path into the Great Void, where Xu Xuan pursued Wu Heyong and encountered a dangerous presence at Yaokong’s residence.

• Xu Xuan learned of the Hollow Sword Gate’s hidden sword essences, recruited Wei Yan, and agreed to help him confront the Wu Clan and Liang Xilan.
• Xu Xuan seized the Wu Clan’s stronghold, but Wu Heyong sacrificed his clansmen and challenged Xu Xuan to find him at Ascending Stars Mountain.
• Xu Xuan and Wei Yan prepared to attack the Hollow Sword Gate, while Wen Guang completed the Five-Element Mountain to break its formation.
• Xu Xuan, Wei Yan, Wen Guang, and their allies assaulted the Hollow Sword Gate, where Liang Xilan’s formation and Wu Heyong’s poison arts turned the battle into a fierce struggle.
• Xu Xuan used Tribulation Command to subdue Wu Heyong as Liang Xilan’s Star-Bright Emptiness Body collapsed and opened a heavenly road into the Great Void.
• Xu Xuan pursued Wu Heyong through Yaokong’s residence, while Kongliao cut Wu Heyong apart and a talisman restored him beyond the moon gates.
• Xu Xuan killed Liang Xilan with Cinnabar Thunder after finding her attacking Wei Yan, then sensed a cold presence watching him from the hall.

Xu Xuan survived the Purple Mansion estate, gained the Heavenly Star Jade Tablet, and learned more about Great Shu and the histories connecting the Plainlands’ clans to the Underworld. Meanwhile, Liu Xingfang faced a proposed marriage alliance, Wen Si'an established her foundation, and Xu Xuan began discussions with Purple Gold Abbey about trade, thunder lineages, and a broken spirit sword.

• Xu Xuan entered the Heavenly Star Jade Tablet’s Past-Fading Light to escape Kongliao’s awakened formation, endured its apparent passage of countless years, and took the tablet from the Dao Platform.
• Xu Xuan found the Sunrise Pearl, restored Constant Light to Purple Mansion grade, and used it to kill Wu Heyong before Yaokong True Person took Star River and Constant Light into the Northern Dipper.
• Wanjin recovered the Heavenly Star Jade Tablet, gave Xu Xuan a Star-Rushing Heavenly Star Pill, and later returned the tablet and Golden Scale to Yue Lingxu, who urged him to build a connection with Xu Xuan.
• Xu Xuan visited Chen Weiyuan, who recounted Great Shu’s fall and revealed that Xu Xuan’s master had obtained the Thunder Radiance Spirit-Inquiry Method in the Northern Sea.
• Liu Xingfang met Wu Shaoyue at Azure Field, demonstrated Altar Thunder, and agreed to spend time working with her before deciding whether to marry.
• Liu Qiuqi showed Xu Xuan a tomb beneath the Great Scenery Plains and explained the clans’ ties to Great Shu and the false Netherworld beneath Lacquer Mountain.
• Wen Si'an formed her immortal foundation, while Xu Xuan learned that Zhu Yuanyun’s forces and Green-Wasteland Abbey cultivators had seized territory in Jade Flow.
• Xu Xuan met Xin Yuanchang at Purple Gold Abbey, agreed to examine a broken sword tip identified as part of Blazing Splendor, and heard Xu Yi explain theories linking altar thunder, ancestral qi, and Dao lineages.

Xu Xuan became Heavenly Thunder Envoy and took part in Great Li’s execution of an ancient Blood-Qi prisoner, discovering the Heavenly Prison’s Tribulation teachings while the execution unleashed a blood egg and its demonic forces. The Thunder Departments and Zhou Shi confronted Yao Lu near Venus as the struggle over the Golden Rank of Unity began.

• Xin Yuanchang gave Xu Xuan the Thunder-Wielding Command Token, but a vision of the heavenly prisons shattered his spiritual perception and reduced the token to dust.
• Liu Xiaowen drove Yun Qing from the Muddy Sea, then learned he would serve Dongfang Qionglian’s uncle, the Dragon King of Supreme Observation, before being offered freedom after one final task.
• Song Shiming appointed Xu Xuan Heavenly Thunder Envoy, and Xu Xuan accepted after Tiantuo urged him to do so.
• Zhu Yucheng’s Yin Soldiers broke through the Duan Clan’s defenses and attacked the Liu Household, while Xu Xuan faced Zhu Yucheng in single combat and wounded him with Life-and-Death Qi Flying Swords.
• Xu Xuan entered the Heavenly Prison during the execution of the Blood-Qi Legacy Criminal, learned its Tribulation Command principles, and formed the Heaven-Commanding Tribulation before escaping as the Heavenly Soldiers died.
• Xu Xuan and Xi Wuya joined Xu Yi against red apes emerging from bloodlight, and Xu Xuan recognized signs of a rite targeting a Devil Lord’s remnant.
• Xu Xuan, Xu Yi, and Xi Wuya reached Venus and escaped the blood egg’s surge, while Xu Xuan cut a piece of blood-quenched cold tin from the bloodlight’s edge.
• Zhou Shi arrived to sever Yao Lu’s connection to the Golden Rank, and he activated the Dipper Pivot Supreme Punishment Seal as his sword descended.