Recaps

Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu joined forces with Red Dragon Girl as Golden Soil’s factions converged on the Ascension Immortal Palace at Heaven-Splitting Gorge. They entered the palace, gathered rare treasures, and ended up fighting a powerful Ten-Thousand-Year Water Spirit.

• Ning Buhui showed Ye Han how much her swordsmanship had improved, while Ye Han stayed in Golden Soil and cultivated as tensions mounted.
• Fairy Ningyu reported that the Black God Sea was being tunneled toward Heaven-Splitting Gorge, and Ye Han warned her that Sword Twenty-Nine might be letting the demons proceed deliberately.
• Red Dragon Girl told Ye Han that the Ascension Immortal Palace would appear in Golden Soil and proposed that they cooperate to pursue its treasures and confront their enemies.
• The Black God Sea Demon Emperor flooded Heaven-Splitting Gorge as the Three Divine Sects attacked the Yin-Yang Sword Sect, and Sword Twenty-Nine joined Blackwater Old Devil and the demon emperor at the expected palace site.
• The Ascension Immortal Palace appeared beneath the lake, and Red Dragon Girl disguised herself as the Heavenly Dragon Demon Saint to lead the group toward its entrance.
• Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu followed the group into the palace, defeated the Crab Demon King, and passed through halls where runic Demon Beasts attacked them.
• Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu found Verdant Blood Jade Sprouts in a withered garden, then encountered a Ten-Thousand-Year Water Spirit whose baby-faced bubbles copied their attacks.

Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu overcame the Medicine Garden’s dangers, while the Purple Cauldron carried Ye Han to a hidden chamber where they cultivated together. After Ye Han advanced his body art and reached a Golden Core bottleneck, they began seeking a way out as the Purple Cauldron stirred again.

• Ye Han subdued the Ten-Thousand-Year Water Spirit, claimed the Four Seas Spirit Spring, and brought it into his Purple Cauldron space, where it nourished his spirit medicines.
• Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu entered a circular hall, defeated an Ancient Demon Beast skeleton, and used its stele to unlock a passage into a Medicine Garden.
• Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu fought the Blood Saint Immortal Venerable, then hid and prepared for the other cultivators they expected to arrive.
• Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu trapped and defeated the Black God Sea Demon Emperor, but the mysterious woman in the Purple Cauldron seized his nascent soul and warned Ye Han she would be absent for a hundred years.
• Ye Han used an Immortal Palace Coin to activate a teleportation array, but the Purple Cauldron redirected him to a courtyard and consumed a grove of sword-thunder violet lightning bamboo.
• Ye Han discovered a hidden chamber beneath the flower bed and killed a Yin-Yang Sword Sect elder who was cultivating in a White Jade Furnace.
• Fairy Ningyu identified the furnace as a Dual Cultivation Furnace Cauldron, and she and Ye Han cultivated together for more than ten days.
• Ye Han advanced the Heavenly Dragon Tyrant Body Art to its second layer and reached a Golden Core bottleneck, while Fairy Ningyu asked him to find a way out and keep their relationship secret from Han Yuwan.

Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu survived the trial of the Three-Transformation Soaring Serpent, then followed the Purple Cauldron through a perilous passage to the Ascension Immortal Palace’s numbered doors. Ye Han entered a sword hall that sealed most of his abilities and began studying its statues, while Fairy Ningyu was sent through another door and Sword Twenty-Nine remained a threat.

• Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu joined Red Dragon Girl in the Heavenly Dragon Demon Race trial, where Ye Han used the archers’ arrows and a formation to immobilize the Three-Transformation Soaring Serpent.
• Red Dragon Girl took the trial’s red orb and teleported away, leaving Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu to discover a cavern containing ancient spirit iron and a Demon Saint’s remains.
• The Purple Cauldron swallowed the Purple Bead, and Fairy Ningyu accidentally activated a mechanical key that opened an underground passage.
• Ye Han deciphered the saint-bone manual as the Eightfold Bone Refining Art and followed the Purple Cauldron through a maze of dangerous forks with Fairy Ningyu.
• Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu reached a chamber with eighteen coin-operated doors, and Fairy Ningyu entered the sixth door while Ye Han changed the statue’s directions and entered the tenth.
• Ye Han arrived in a star-lit hall with forty-eight sword-bearing statues and a flame-filled furnace, but found that his storage items and most of his abilities were sealed.
• Ye Han fought an animated statue, discovered that his Heavenly Dragon Tyrant Body Art and sword arts still worked, and began studying the statues’ swordsmanship alongside the Eightfold Bone Refining Art.

Ye Han claimed the Starry Sky Stone, defeated Sword Twenty-Nine, and saved Fairy Ningyu’s fading life with the Water Spirit Coffin. Back at the Azure Profound Sect, he reunited with old companions and agreed to join Zhang Qingshan on a future journey to the Boundless Sea.

• Ye Han shattered the palace statues, convinced the Ascension Immortal Palace’s master that he was a descendant, and received the Starry Sky Stone, which the Purple Cauldron began absorbing.
• Sword Twenty-Nine ambushed Ye Han after he escaped the palace, and Ye Han found Fairy Ningyu impaled and frozen before rescuing her into the Purple Cauldron Space.
• Ye Han fought Sword Twenty-Nine through the plaza and up the palace, then used the White Jade Bamboo Shoot to master Great Geng Divine Insight Swordsmanship and kill him.
• As the Ascension Immortal Palace collapsed, Ye Han escaped with Red Dragon Girl and the Water Spirit Immortal Coffin, then fled pursuing cultivators while still worried about Fairy Ningyu.
• Ye Han placed Fairy Ningyu in the Water Spirit Coffin and submerged it in the Four Seas Spirit Spring, preserving her vitality while her golden core, soul, and primordial spirit remained inactive.
• Ye Han healed his injuries, claimed chaos divine wood from Sword Twenty-Nine’s Green Pearl Ring, and returned to the Azure Profound Sect, where Han Yuwan agreed to oversee Elegant Beauty Peak.
• Zhang Qingshan showed Ye Han an Ancient Coral Map, and Ye Han agreed to join his planned Boundless Sea expedition in about twenty years.
• Ye Han reunited with Mo Lan and Qin Jiuzhen, who told him they had returned from the Northern Lu Province Continent and that Qin Jiuzhen had become an Azure Profound Sect disciple.