Recaps

Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu fought the Ten-Thousand-Year Water Spirit in the Ascension Immortal Palace and cut off the spiritual energy empowering him. Ye Han trapped the weakened spirit inside the Treasure Refining Furnace and demanded that he surrender.

• The Ten-Thousand-Year Water Spirit attacked Ye Han with twin swords, while Fairy Ningyu's eighteen bead-formed figures trapped him in an ancient sword formation.
• Ye Han discovered that the dragon head above the Spirit Pool was supplying the spirit with water spiritual energy, and Fairy Ningyu urged him to sever the supply.
• Ye Han used the Treasure Refining Furnace's truefire to block the energy flowing from the pool, weakening the Ten-Thousand-Year Water Spirit.
• The Ten-Thousand-Year Water Spirit shattered Fairy Ningyu's sword formation and tried to escape, but Ye Han opened the furnace and Fairy Ningyu knocked him toward it with her Icicles Shield.
• Ye Han bound the spirit inside the Treasure Refining Furnace with flaming chains and demanded that he surrender or be burned to death.

Ye Han forced the Ten-Thousand-Year Water Spirit to surrender its Spirit Crystal and bound it as his servant. He released the spirit into his Purple Runes Vortex, where it restored its power with the Four Seas Spirit Spring and began sending spring water into Ye Han’s space.

• The Ten-Thousand-Year Water Spirit resisted Ye Han inside the Treasure Refining Furnace, but he intensified the flames until it agreed to surrender.
• Ye Han demanded the spirit’s Spirit Crystal, and the Ten-Thousand-Year Water Spirit handed it over after he threatened to burn it.
• Ye Han used his essence blood and a binding spell to make the Ten-Thousand-Year Water Spirit his servant, then asked whether it could bring its Four Seas Spirit Spring along.
• The Ten-Thousand-Year Water Spirit explained that it needed a place to store its true form, and Ye Han opened his Purple Runes Vortex for it.
• The Ten-Thousand-Year Water Spirit drew the Four Seas Spirit Spring from the dragon heads, restored its power, and sent spring water into Ye Han’s space.

Ye Han absorbed the Four Seas Spirit Spring into his purple cauldron space and assigned the Ten-Thousand-Year Water Spirit to water his spirit medicines. He and Fairy Ningyu continued through the Ascension Immortal Palace, and she asked whether he and Han Yuwan were cultivation partners.

• The Four Seas Spirit Spring suddenly drained, leaving Red Dragon Girl and the others confused before they continued onward in search of treasures.
• Ye Han brought the Ten-Thousand-Year Water Spirit and the Four Seas Spirit Spring into his purple cauldron space.
• Ye Han told the Ten-Thousand-Year Water Spirit to water his spirit medicines, and the spring’s rain made them grow rapidly.
• Ye Han offered Fairy Ningyu access to his secret-realm space, and she accepted.
• Fairy Ningyu asked Ye Han whether he and Han Yuwan were cultivation partners.

Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu were swept into a shifting chamber in the Ascension Immortal Palace, where a hidden formation summoned an ancient demon beast skeleton. The skeleton destroyed Ye Han’s metal puppets and blocked his powerful punch, leaving the two facing a formidable enemy.

• A violent disturbance rearranged the passage stones, and Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu stayed together as they were carried into a vast circular hall.
• Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu suspected Red Dragon Girl’s group had triggered the mechanism and hoped the group had been separated, but they found the hall had no visible exit.
• Ye Han sent two metal puppets onto the floor, triggering a formation that summoned a huge skeletal claw and shattered both puppets.
• An armored ancient demon beast skeleton emerged from the formation and charged Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu.
• Ye Han enlarged himself with the Six-Gate Cosmic Armor and struck with the Nine-Turn Vajra Art, but the skeleton casually blocked his punch.

Ye Han activated the Heavenly Dragon Tyrant Body Art and discovered that its aura countered the Ancient Demon Beast skeleton, causing it to crumble under his attack. After collecting its armor and a blue rune-covered bead, he triggered a new disturbance in the chamber as an enormous Demon Beast arm rose from the ground.

• Fairy Ningyu attacked the Ancient Demon Beast skeleton with her Long Spear Magic Treasure, but it shattered against the beast's head.
• Ye Han activated the Heavenly Dragon Tyrant Body Art, grew to a hundred zhang, and struck the skeleton with a claw.
• The skeleton's runes failed and its body crumbled into bone dust, leaving metal armor and a blue rune-covered bead.
• Fairy Ningyu recognized that Ye Han's cultivation method had countered the skeleton, and Ye Han explained that it belonged to the Heavenly Dragon Demon Race.
• Ye Han collected the armor and picked up the blue bead, which released runes and Spirit Light as an enormous Demon Beast arm rose from the ground.

After taking an Immortal Palace Coin from a statue, Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu rose to a new level and found a stele presenting a cryptic Heavenly Dragon Demon Race trial. They realized they might be trapped until they solved it, then resumed teasing each other about their relationships.

• Ye Han took the Immortal Palace Coin from the carved Demon Beast arm, causing the floor to rise through the mist.
• Ye Han sent out a Metal Puppet, and an enormous stele inscribed in Heavenly Dragon Demon Race characters rose from the floor.
• Ye Han translated the stele's cryptic phrases and learned that they had three chances to comprehend its mysteries.
• Fairy Ningyu found the back of the stele blank, and Ye Han suspected they had to solve its trial to escape.
• Ye Han joked that Fairy Ningyu would suffer if they were trapped together, and she demanded to know whether he and Han Yuwan were Cultivation Partners.

Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu struggled to decipher the Heavenly Dragon Demon Race inscription, and their meditation left them increasingly restless. Fairy Ningyu wished they had someone from the race to help, prompting Ye Han to realize he might be able to become one himself.

• Ye Han told Fairy Ningyu that he cherished his cultivation partners and every chance to grow stronger, leading her to reflect on her past mistakes and her sister's death.
• Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu sat before the stone stele and tried to interpret its cryptic inscription.
• After fourteen to sixteen hours, Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu admitted they had gained no insights and were becoming agitated.
• Fairy Ningyu suggested that a member of the Heavenly Dragon Demon Race might help them understand the inscription.
• Ye Han excitedly proposed that he could become a member of the Heavenly Dragon Demon Race.

Ye Han used the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell and the Heavenly Dragon Demon Saint’s soul to understand the writing on the stone stele and began comprehending a basic Heavenly Dragon secret method. As Fairy Ningyu guarded him, a strange purple aura appeared and Ye Han abruptly cursed an unseen presence.

• Ye Han summoned the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell and revealed that it had absorbed the Heavenly Dragon Demon Saint’s soul and primordial spirit.
• Ye Han used the bell and the demon saint’s remnant aura to take on a half-human, half-demon form and approach the stone stele.
• Ye Han deciphered the stele’s writing and realized it described a foundational secret method of the Heavenly Dragon Demon Race.
• Ye Han memorized the secret method and began contemplating it alongside the Heavenly Dragon Tyrant Body Art while Fairy Ningyu stood guard.
• A bizarre purple runic aura erupted from Ye Han, and he suddenly cursed something, leaving Fairy Ningyu confused.

Ye Han stopped the woman in the Mysterious Coffin from stealing the Heavenly Dragon Demon Saint’s spirit, then used what he had learned to pass the stone stele trial with Fairy Ningyu. The next floor revealed an exit filled with rich spiritual energy and the scent of medicinal herbs.

• The Purple Cauldron slammed the Mysterious Coffin shut when Ye Han cursed at it, forcing the woman’s hand back inside.
• Ye Han told Fairy Ningyu that he had deciphered the stele’s Heavenly Dragon Demon Race cultivation technique with the Heavenly Dragon Demon Saint’s spirit, then withdrew the spirit from his body.
• Ye Han used the Heavenly Dragon Tyrant Body Art to activate the stele, producing an Immortal Palace Coin and breaking through the art’s first layer.
• Ye Han gave the coin to Fairy Ningyu, and the floor trembled and rose to reveal an exit carrying spiritual energy and the fragrance of medicinal herbs.

Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu discovered a Medicine Garden guarded by the Blood Saint Immortal Venerable, a sinister tree spirit bearing rare Blood Saint Fruits. As they fought its attacks, Ye Han used the Heavenly Water Bottle to freeze it, but the tree spirit animated its fruits into bloodthirsty creatures.

• Ye Han sent a Metal Puppet into the Medicine Garden, but a huge root destroyed it and alerted the thousand-zhang tree spirit.
• The Blood Saint Immortal Venerable charged at Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu, and they recognized the infant-like fruits on its vines as rare Blood Saint Fruits.
• The tree spirit attacked them with roots, while Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu dodged its strikes.
• Ye Han unleashed the Heavenly Water Bottle, whose icy rain covered the tree spirit in icicles.
• The Blood Saint Immortal Venerable chanted strange incantations, causing faces to emerge from its trunk and burrow into the Blood Saint Fruits, which sprouted arms and legs.

Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu faced the Blood Saint Immortal Venerable, but the Ten-Thousand-Year Water Spirit overwhelmed the tree spirit with his sea power of law. After the Blood Saint Immortal Venerable died, the Water Spirit returned with his Blood Saint Fruits and began to reveal the medicine garden's secret.

• The Blood Saint Immortal Venerable sent Golden Core-level blood men to attack Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu.
• Ye Han summoned the Ten-Thousand-Year Water Spirit, causing the Blood Saint Immortal Venerable to flee in terror.
• The Ten-Thousand-Year Water Spirit pursued the Blood Saint Immortal Venerable and destroyed his blood men and branches with bubbles.
• Ye Han explained that the Water Spirit's true form was the Four Seas Spirit Spring, whose sea power of law suppressed wood spirits.
• Ye Han rejected the Blood Saint Immortal Venerable's plea for mercy, and the Ten-Thousand-Year Water Spirit killed him and collected more than a hundred Blood Saint Fruits.
• The Ten-Thousand-Year Water Spirit asked Ye Han for a Nine-Heaven Immortal Vine fruit as a reward, then offered to tell him the medicine garden's secret.

Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu discovered that the Medicine Garden was a trap and decided to wait there for Sword Twenty-Nine or other enemies to arrive. After preparing an ambush and hiding for four days, they saw a huge stone platform rise nearby.

• The Ten-Thousand-Year Water Spirit warned Ye Han that the Medicine Garden was a trap, and Ye Han recalled it to his space.
• Ye Han explained that the Blood Saint Fruit Tree’s evil qi made the garden suspect and that its fruit could be refined into the Little Immortal Spirit Pill.
• Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu decided to wait for Sword Twenty-Nine, the Black God Sea Demon Emperor, or Blackwater Old Devil to appear.
• Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu cleared the battle traces and set up formations, puppets, and talismans around the garden.
• Ye Han cultivated the Heavenly Dragon Demon Race Basic Art while they hid, and after four days a thousand-foot stone platform rose from the ground.

The Black God Sea Demon Emperor arrived at the Medicine Garden and cautiously sent a water demon to test its barriers. When the barrier broke, a towering black-gray figure burst from the garden and attacked him.

• The Black God Sea Demon Emperor reached the Medicine Garden and sent a water demon ahead to scout.
• Ye Han told Fairy Ningyu to conserve her spell power and warned the Purple Cauldron and the Mysterious Coffin to help him fight the demon emperor.
• The water demon entered a garden plot and struck its Restrictive Barrier with a beam of demonic light.
• A black-gray Ghost Claw seized and crushed the water demon after the barrier shattered.
• A towering figure of black-gray flames lunged at the Black God Sea Demon Emperor, who shouted for it to get lost.

The Black God Sea Demon Emperor was trapped by cursed black-flame ghosts in the Medicine Garden and forced to spend his nascent soul’s power to destroy their cursed blood essence. Ye Han ambushed him with purple-gold lightning and the Five Elements Ancient Treasure Formation, leaving the Demon Emperor facing the attack with a shield, his trident, and his body enlarged to a hundred zhang.

• The Black God Sea Demon Emperor discovered that the Medicine Garden held cursed jars instead of spirit medicine, and he dodged the cursed blood essence released by the black-flame ghosts.
• The Black God Sea Demon Emperor used his nascent soul’s blue flame to burn away the cursed blood essence, then wielded the Trident Spirit Treasure to freeze and shatter the encircling ghosts.
• A streak of purple-gold lightning struck the Demon Emperor’s blue-flame barrier, allowing cursed blood essence to enter his body before his nascent soul forced it out at the cost of considerable spell power.
• Ye Han appeared and unleashed the five ancient treasures of the Five Elements Ancient Treasure Formation against the weakened Demon Emperor.
• The Black God Sea Demon Emperor summoned a rune-inscribed shield, seized his trident, and expanded to a hundred zhang tall as Ye Han’s five treasures closed in.

Ye Han fled from the Black God Sea Demon Emperor, but the mysterious woman inside the coffin in his Purple Cauldron intervened and killed the demon emperor. Ye Han was left wondering who the woman was.

• The Black God Sea Demon Emperor shattered Ye Han's Five Elements Ancient Treasure Formation and pursued him as he tried to flee.
• The demon emperor immobilized Ye Han with his Spirit-Settling Secret Method, but purple runes broke the spell and Ye Han's sword and great formations blocked the trident's attack.
• A giant hand emerged from a purple spatial vortex, shattered the demon emperor's trident, and bound him with purple rune chains.
• The demon emperor's nascent soul escaped his body, but another hand seized it and dragged it into the vortex before the first hand discarded his body.
• Ye Han realized the mysterious woman in the coffin inside his Purple Cauldron had acted, then asked her who she was.

Ye Han learned that the mysterious woman in the coffin would be absent for a hundred years after she killed the Black God Sea Demon Emperor, while the Purple Cauldron healed him from her backlash. He and Fairy Ningyu prepared to use the Medicine Garden as a trap for Sword Twenty-Nine and the other enemies who might appear in the next trial.

• The mysterious woman jolted Ye Han's divine sense out of the coffin and told him she would be absent for a hundred years, then the Purple Cauldron healed his injury.
• The Black God Sea Demon Emperor's body collapsed, and Ye Han realized his formations had barely restrained the Nascent Soul Realm opponent before the woman killed him.
• Fairy Ningyu arrived and asked whether Ye Han could use the mysterious woman's power against Sword Twenty-Nine, but Ye Han explained that he could not control her.
• Ye Han stored the Black God Sea Demon Emperor's body in the purple cauldron space and urged Fairy Ningyu to prepare for Sword Twenty-Nine and other enemies to appear in the next trial.
• Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu cleared the traces of battle, then began turning the Black God Sea Demon Emperor's trap into a convincing Medicine Garden using puppets and spirit soil.

Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu abandoned their ambush after Sword Twenty-Nine and Blackwater Old Devil failed to appear, then found an ancient teleportation array beneath a Heavenly Dragon Demon Race statue. Ye Han sent Fairy Ningyu into his Purple Cauldron space and used an Immortal Palace Coin to teleport, while the Purple Cauldron began trembling.

• Ye Han decided he and Fairy Ningyu had waited long enough, packed away their hidden formations, and retrieved the spirit medicines and soil from their Medicine Garden.
• Ye Han set off Fireburst Talismans to release the creatures with cursed auras, hoping they would delay anyone who came after them, and led Fairy Ningyu toward a nearby mountain.
• Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu reached a statue of the Heavenly Dragon Demon Race and discovered an ancient teleportation array with a recess sized for an Immortal Palace Coin.
• Ye Han rejected Fairy Ningyu's plan to teleport together, brought her into his Purple Cauldron space, and placed one Immortal Palace Coin into the array.
• The array activated, Ye Han vanished, and the Purple Cauldron in his divine sense sea began to tremble.

Ye Han was diverted from the teleportation passage by the Purple Cauldron and emerged beside a grove of ten-thousand-year sword-thunder violet lightning bamboo. The cauldron swallowed the grove, strengthening Ye Han’s connection to it, and Ye Han noticed something in the now-empty flower bed.

• The Purple Cauldron shattered the Immortal Palace Coin’s teleportation runes and tore open a passage that sent Ye Han to another location.
• Ye Han emerged in a Heavenly Dragon Demon Race courtyard and recognized a grove of ten-thousand-year sword-thunder violet lightning bamboo.
• The bamboo attacked Ye Han with sword qi and lightning, and he countered with the Great Geng Sword Art.
• The Purple Cauldron appeared, withstood the bamboo’s attacks, and engulfed the entire grove, crushing the surrounding statues.
• The cauldron returned to Ye Han’s divine sense sea, where a purple bamboo shoot began growing and Ye Han’s connection to the cauldron strengthened.
• Ye Han looked toward the empty flower bed and asked what was there.

Ye Han examined the sealed chamber where the Purple Cauldron had consumed the ten-thousand-year sword-thunder violet lightning bamboo and found an ancient bamboo sword that crumbled to dust. After reassuring Fairy Ningyu inside the Purple Cauldron Space, he followed the cauldron’s guidance and uncovered a small, aura-filled hole beneath the flower bed, which he believed was the way out.

• The Purple Cauldron consumed the ten-thousand-year sword-thunder violet lightning bamboo, leaving a bamboo sword that Ye Han tried to retrieve before it crumbled into dust.
• Fairy Ningyu asked whether she could leave the Purple Cauldron Space, and Ye Han told her he had teleported safely and that she should wait until it was safe.
• Fairy Ningyu marveled at the treasures and abundant spiritual energy in the Purple Cauldron Space, while Ye Han invited her to cultivate there and she told him not to joke around.
• Ye Han explored the sealed chamber and found that its solid walls and floor were protected by restrictions.
• The Purple Cauldron directed its aura toward the flower bed, and Ye Han dug through the spiritless soil until he uncovered a small hole leaking aura.

Ye Han followed a hidden passage from the flower bed where the Purple Cauldron had absorbed the Ten-Thousand-Year Sword-Thunder Violet Lightning Bamboo, reaching a formation that concentrated spiritual energy. He discovered a human cultivator meditating inside a white jade furnace, leaving him to wonder who the young man was and why he was in the Ascension Immortal Palace.

• Ye Han shrank himself and slipped through the tiny hole beneath the flower bed, following a passage filled with concentrated spiritual energy.
• Ye Han reflected on the Purple Cauldron absorbing the bamboo and considered how its growth and changing abilities might benefit him.
• Ye Han reached the passage's opening and sensed someone nearby, so he concealed his aura and approached cautiously.
• Ye Han found a vast circular formation with Formation Pillars, a white jade furnace, and holes that carried concentrated spiritual energy elsewhere.
• Ye Han saw a young man meditating inside the furnace and realized that he was a human Cultivator, not a member of the Heavenly Dragon Clan.

Ye Han ambushed an elder of the Yin-Yang Sword Sect inside the white jade furnace, using the Binglian Puppet, the Dragon-Binding Bracelet, and his golden sword to attack him. The elder countered Ye Han’s strike with a hidden sword attack from behind, leaving Ye Han in immediate danger.

• Ye Han identified the cultivator in the white jade furnace as an elder of the Yin-Yang Sword Sect and concealed himself with the Kui Water Spirit Art.
• Ye Han sent the Binglian Puppet to attack the elder, but the elder repelled it with his paired yin-yang swords.
• Ye Han struck the elder with the Dragon-Binding Bracelet and a golden sword-ray, breaking his Eight Trigrams Taiji sword barrier and knocking him back.
• The elder cut through Ye Han’s golden serpent attack with his Life-Bound Treasure, the Golden Light Longsword.
• Ye Han appeared behind the elder and attacked with the Soul-Slaying Sword, but the elder revealed that he had prepared a yin-yang sword strike against Ye Han from behind.

Ye Han killed the Yin-Yang Sword Sect elder, captured his fleeing golden core and primordial spirit with the Ghost Skull Mirror, and collected his possessions. He then examined the White Jade Furnace that had let the elder absorb spiritual energy at an extraordinary rate.

• The Yin-Yang Sword Sect elder dodged Ye Han's first attack, but another Ye Han appeared behind him and pierced him with the Soul-Slaying Sword.
• The elder's golden core and primordial spirit fled, but four skulls from Ye Han's Ghost Skull Mirror seized them and dragged them inside.
• Ye Han confirmed that the strange woman in the coffin was still refining the Black God Sea Demon Emperor's essence and would remain dormant for a hundred years.
• Ye Han burned the elder's corpse in the Treasure Refining Furnace, collected his treasures and Immortal Palace Coin, and retrieved the Binglian Puppet's swords.
• Ye Han inspected the White Jade Furnace and wondered what it was, since it had enabled the elder to absorb spiritual energy at an unusual rate.

Ye Han discovered that the White Jade Furnace greatly accelerated cultivation and invited Fairy Ningyu to use it. After she identified it as a Dual Cultivation Furnace Cauldron, she proposed that they try dual cultivating, leaving Ye Han startled.

• Ye Han cultivated inside the White Jade Furnace and absorbed a powerful flow of pure metal-element spiritual energy.
• Ye Han released Fairy Ningyu from the Purple Cauldron Space and showed her the furnace.
• Fairy Ningyu cultivated in the furnace while Ye Han examined the surrounding Formation Pillars.
• Ye Han suggested they stay and cultivate there, and Fairy Ningyu identified the furnace as a Dual Cultivation Furnace Cauldron.
• Fairy Ningyu asked Ye Han to dual cultivate with her, and he reacted with alarm.

Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu cultivated in the white jade furnace, and Fairy Ningyu broke through to the ninth layer of the Golden Core stage while Ye Han gained little. As Fairy Ningyu reflected on her feelings and prepared to take the next step, she called Ye Han over.

• Fairy Ningyu advanced to the ninth layer of the Golden Core stage after more than ten days of dual cultivation, while Ye Han's cultivation improved only slightly.
• Ye Han continued studying the Heavenly Dragon Tyrant Body Art and strengthening his treasures, reasoning that the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell was already too powerful for him to use if it absorbed the Black God Sea Demon Emperor's soul.
• Ye Han reflected on his growing feelings for Fairy Ningyu and the loneliness of outliving the people he had known in Green Ox Village.
• Fairy Ningyu wondered whether loneliness and her feelings for Ye Han had prompted her impulsive choice, and decided to cherish the present.
• Fairy Ningyu called Ye Han up to her, and he protested that obeying her command would cost him face.

Ye Han mastered the second layer of the Heavenly Dragon Tyrant Body Art after months of cultivation with Fairy Ningyu, and his cultivation reached the bottleneck of the first layer of the Golden Core Stage. As they prepared to leave the weakening formation, the Purple Cauldron trembled in Ye Han’s divine sense sea.

• Ye Han advanced to the second layer of the Heavenly Dragon Tyrant Body Art, further healed his injuries, and reached the Golden Core Stage bottleneck.
• Fairy Ningyu asked Ye Han to find a way out because the formation’s Heaven and Earth spiritual energy was dwindling.
• Ye Han copied the formation’s runes into a jade slip so he could study and reproduce it in his Spatial Medicine Garden.
• Fairy Ningyu told Ye Han to keep their relationship secret from Han Yuwan, and Ye Han agreed.
• As Ye Han considered where to go next, the Purple Cauldron in his divine sense sea trembled faintly.