Recaps

Ye Han and White Snow reached the Qing Xuan Divine Palace, where the Fifth Elder ambushed them before the palace drew them inside. Ye Han survived, advanced to the Golden Core Stage through the secret realms, and discovered a crystal that transformed the Absolute Frost Divine Sword.

• Ye Han and White Snow reached the frozen palace gate, where the Fifth Elder and four false Golden Core cultivators ambushed Ye Han over Wang Fa's death.
• White Snow disrupted the Heavenly Gang Forbidden Art Formation, allowing Ye Han to break free and escape the Fifth Elder's attacks until the palace suction dragged them inside.
• Ye Han killed the Fifth Elder with the Absolute Frost Divine Sword in the spatial vortex, then explored the palace and learned from White Snow that its Bronze Pillars led to Heaven and Earth Secret Realms.
• Ye Han and White Snow spent nearly a hundred years in the illusion realms, where White Snow became a demon king and Ye Han reached the Golden Core Stage using tribulation lightning.
• Ye Han reunited with Fairy Jade Orchid, examined his five elements golden core, and watched the Purple Cauldron absorb the Qing Xuan Divine Palace's pillars, floors, and walls.
• Ye Han followed the Absolute Frost Divine Sword's familiar aura through an icy cavern and found a Cyan-Blue Crystal like those in the Ice Refining Prince's lair.
• The Absolute Frost Divine Sword struck the crystal, which repaired the blade and inscribed it with blue-cyan runes, then released flames that knocked Ye Han's reaching hand away.

Ye Han defeated the Glacier King and three Demon Kings, then learned that Lan Qing had impersonated him to obtain the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell. He returned toward the Azure Profound Sect, discovered it had reopened, and dealt with Han Qiushui after finding him signaling the Zhuge Family.

• Ye Han bound the Absolute Frost Divine Sword, escaped the glacier with White Snow, and defeated the Glacier King, whose soul White Snow consumed.
• Ye Han studied the battle scars on the Qing Xuan Divine Palace, then went to Storm City seeking windspirit cold iron and news of Zhang Qingshan.
• When three Demon Kings attacked Storm City, Ye Han broke through the barrier and killed them with the Great Heaven-Covering Formation while his insects and puppets drove off the beasts.
• Ye Han discovered Lan Qing had been reborn in his image and had posed as Daoist Ling, then accepted the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell and its cultivation method in exchange for delaying his help for fifty years.
• Lan Qing told Ye Han that Zhang Qingshan and Han Yuwan had left for Heavenly Billows, and Ye Han set out after them while suppressing his injuries.
• Ye Han learned that the Three Great Sects had united as the Three Divine Sects and that the Azure Profound Sect had reopened after sealing its mountains for a hundred years.
• Ye Han confronted Han Qiushui, caught him activating a Zhuge Family token, and absorbed him into the Treasure Refining Furnace before leaving the market.

Ye Han returned to the Azure Profound Sect, learned more about its past and his own uncertain ties, then joined Fairy Ningyu’s plan to pursue Sword Twenty-Nine and the chaos divine wood. His disguise and rumors stirred tension in the Three Divine Sects’ campaign in Golden Soil, and he ended by attacking their fortified base.

• Ye Han returned to the Azure Profound Sect, where Elder Liu explained the sect’s century-long retreat and gave him instructions for using the damaged Qing Xuan Divine Palace.
• Ye Han visited Fairy Jade Orchid and Ningyu, then learned from the Seventh Elder and Zhang Lingjun that Eldest Senior Brother had been framed and vanished after his tokens were destroyed.
• Ye Han found the repaired teleportation array and Azure Phoenix Fairy’s jade pendant, then began refining the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell and examining how to repair the Qing Xuan Divine Palace.
• Fairy Ningyu revealed that Sword Twenty-Nine had betrayed her and taken chaos divine wood, so Ye Han agreed to help her seek revenge and traveled with her to Golden Soil.
• Ye Han fought the Three Divine Sects’ Golden Core cultivators at Heavenly Valley, escaped after Red Dragon Girl recognized his sword intent, and devised a plan to impersonate Sword Twenty-Nine.
• Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu rescued two women abused by the Three Divine Sects and sent them to spread rumors that the invasion targeted a treasure ground belonging to the Yin-Yang Sword Sect.
• The Three Divine Sects’ rumors reached their elders as Sword Twenty-Nine denied appearing in battle and suspected the campaign was tied to the Ascension Immortal Palace.
• With the war stalled, Ye Han planned to provoke both sides and approached the Three Divine Sects’ fortified base, striking at a hidden treasure that detected intruders.

Ye Han joined forces with Red Dragon Girl to lure out and kill the Heavenly Dragon Demon Saint, freeing her from his control. He claimed the demon’s remains and treasures, while Sword Twenty-Nine continued to avoid meeting him.

• Ye Han fought the Three Divine Sects’ Golden Core cultivators, escaped their pursuit, and persuaded Red Dragon Girl to help him investigate Golden Soil’s dangers.
• Ye Han sparred with Ning Buhui, taught her about her wavering sword Dao, and asked her to arrange a meeting with Sword Twenty-Nine.
• Red Dragon Girl revealed that her master had ordered her to keep Ye Han in Golden Soil, and Ye Han convinced her that the Three Divine Sects had planned to sacrifice her to the Demon Saint.
• Ye Han and Red Dragon Girl formed an alliance against the Heavenly Dragon Demon Saint, and she lured him into Ye Han’s trap in Heaven-Splitting Gorge.
• Ye Han weakened the Demon Saint with formations, puppets, Blood-Spotted Ants, and the Demon-Subduing Potion, then trapped his spirit and soul inside the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell.
• Ye Han freed Red Dragon Girl from the Demon Saint’s control and gave her his corpse, while keeping the demon beast soul and Demon Core.
• Ye Han found sharp gold and the Heavenly Dragon Demon Race’s inherited Body Refining Art among the Demon Saint’s possessions, while Red Dragon Girl celebrated her freedom and improved cultivation.
• Sword Twenty-Nine refused Ning Buhui’s request to meet Ye Han, who continued practicing the Body Refining Art and flew to meet Ning Buhui.