Recaps

Jiang Xuanfeng warned Dongfang Yuejian and the others that an inauspicious treasure had transformed True Lord Huayang and his disciples, though Xuanzhi trusted Xu Taiping to hold fast to his true heart. In the Inauspicious Treasury, Xu Taiping called for a battle treasure and met a golden fist shadow, which he shattered with his ultimate-realm Heaven-Touching Stance.

• Jiang Xuanfeng recounted how True Lord Huayang chose an inauspicious sword-intent painting, suffered cultivation deviation, and later transformed himself and his sixteen disciples into women.
• Jiang Xuanfeng said True Lord Huayang and his disciples escaped into the chaos beyond the Upper Realm after overwhelming Luofu Grotto-Heaven's experts.
• Xuanzhi said True Lord Huayang had abandoned his true heart for strength but declared that Xu Taiping would resist the inauspicious object's temptation.
• Xu Taiping called for a treasure to aid him in battle in the Land of Chaos, and the treasury's objects rushed toward his hand.
• A golden fist shadow attacked Xu Taiping, who met it with the ultimate-realm Heaven-Touching Stance and shattered it.

Xu Taiping rejected the Golden Arm after it refused to acknowledge him as master and left the Treasury of ominous objects empty-handed. The arm then smashed at the Treasury’s seal from within, forcing Jiang Xuanfeng to activate a Jade Jue as it tried to break out.

• Xu Taiping overpowered the Golden Arm in a series of punches, but refused to take it when it would not acknowledge him as master.
• The Golden Arm changed its mind and agreed to acknowledge Xu Taiping, but Xu Taiping had already left the Treasury.
• Dongfang Yuejian and Jiang Xuanfeng questioned Xu Taiping about the treasure he had encountered, and Jiang Xuanfeng offered to show him other Treasuries.
• A succession of impacts from within the ominous-objects Treasury left fist-shaped marks on its pillar of light and opened a breach.
• Jiang Xuanfeng crushed a Jade Jue to make the breach contract, but the Golden Arm continued struggling to force its way out.

Xu Taiping learned that the golden arm had been trying to break the seal in order to reach him and was willing to acknowledge him as its master. The golden arm explained that Xu Taiping’s fist intent reminded it of its former lord, the Flame Emperor.

• Jiang Xuanfeng warned the golden arm that Great Emperor Zongyun would erase its sentience, but the arm continued pounding the treasury seal and demanded to see Xu Taiping.
• Xu Taiping confirmed that the golden arm was the treasure that had refused to acknowledge him, then told it he would not take it unless it accepted him as its master.
• The golden arm suddenly agreed to acknowledge Xu Taiping, offered to enter a soul contract, and tried to reassure him of its combat prowess.
• Xu Taiping asked why the golden arm was so fixated on him, and it said his fist intent resembled that of its lord, the Flame Emperor.

Xu Taiping hesitated to accept a golden arm that claimed to be the Flame Sovereign’s treasure, but Great Emperor Zongyun arrived and exposed the arm’s deception. Zongyun explained that it had been a tribal chief who became a corpse jiangshi, then forged himself into a weapon out of admiration for the Flame Sovereign.

• The golden arm claimed Xu Taiping’s fist intent reminded it of the Flame Sovereign, while Xu Taiping remained wary of its story.
• Zongyun burst into the minor world, struck the golden arm back into the sealing pillar, and restored the pillar with a seal.
• Zongyun told Xu Taiping and Jiang Xuanfeng that the arm had been a tribal chief slain by the Flame Sovereign and that the roster listed only certain inauspicious objects.
• Zongyun explained that the chief became a corpse jiangshi, grew to revere the Flame Sovereign, and forged himself into a golden arm to serve him.
• Dongfang Yuejian expressed disbelief at the chief’s devotion, and Gu Yu remarked that the treasury’s objects were inauspicious; Zongyun told him he was mistaken.

Great Emperor Zongyun explained the origins and risks of the objects of ill omen, including the Golden Severed Arm, and Xu Taiping decided to try wielding it. Zongyun released the arm from the Treasury, and it greeted Xu Taiping excitedly as its long-awaited lord.

• Great Emperor Zongyun explained that objects of ill omen had unknown origins or came from realms contaminated by Heaven-Outside Evil Gods, though Chenglong Great Emperor had sealed their ill-omened aura.
• Great Emperor Zongyun said the Golden Severed Arm might be contaminated after devouring objects of unknown origin, and the arm angrily denied it.
• Great Emperor Zongyun warned Xu Taiping that the arm could boost his combat power but had a strange, possibly dangerous artifact spirit.
• Xu Taiping decided to try the Golden Severed Arm, and Great Emperor Zongyun removed the Emperor Seal and pulled it from the Treasury.
• The Golden Severed Arm shouted, "My Lord, we finally meet again!"

Xu Taiping claimed the Golden Severed Arm, which became a fist gauntlet and rapidly awakened two stages of combat strength, then prepared to redeem his reward. Meanwhile, Yun Shiliu urgently sought Xu Taiping at the Profound Elixir Palace, warning Feng Tianxing that his only relative might soon be in danger.

• Xu Taiping accepted the Golden Severed Arm after asking for a treasure to strengthen his fist techniques before traveling to the Land of Chaos in Outer Heaven.
• The Golden Severed Arm transformed into a gauntlet, and Xu Taiping's fist intent activated its first two stages of combat strength.
• Xu Taiping told the Golden Severed Arm to stop comparing him to the Flame Emperor and declared that he would take the treasure.
• Great Emperor Zongyun left Jiang Xuanfeng to oversee the group's exchange of battle merit for treasures.
• Yun Shiliu barged into the Profound Elixir Palace and asked Feng Tianxing to let her see Xu Taiping.
• Yun Shiliu warned Feng Tianxing that Xu Taiping's only relative might meet with disaster if they waited even half a day.

Xu Taiping spent his remaining battle merit on three chances for his group to enter and leave the Immortal Burial Ruins, then learned he could enter the Heaven-Ascending Platform to comprehend Divine Intent or True Intent. Before he could decide whether to ascend to the Land of Chaos in Outer Heaven, Ancestor Feng Tianxing urgently summoned him to Profound Heaven Hall.

• Xu Taiping could not redeem the Spirit Bone Stele, and Jiang Xuanfeng explained that taking the earth-vein jade platform would drain the Immortal Burial Ruins of spiritual energy.
• Jiang Xuanfeng offered to exchange Xu Taiping's sixty thousand battle merit for three chances each for the four companions to enter and leave the Immortal Burial Ruins, and they accepted.
• Jiang Xuanfeng revealed that Xu Taiping could enter the Heaven-Ascending Platform to comprehend Divine Intent or True Intent, potentially ascending to a star domain controlled by a major sect.
• Xu Taiping postponed deciding about ascension because he and his companions planned to visit Jiaye Temple in the Wilderness.
• After Ancestor Feng Tianxing urgently summoned him to Profound Heaven Hall, Xu Taiping told Dongfang Yuejian to take his Dragon-Slaying Stele to Jiaye Temple if he did not return in time.

Yun Shiliu and Feng Tianxing tried to stop Nether Palace Ghost King Su Lian from taking Xu Chengling to the Upper Realm, but Su Lian threatened the Three Sovereigns Dao Palace with a massacre. The chapter left Xu Chengling’s fate hanging as Yun Shiliu faced Su Lian’s ultimatum.

• Yun Shiliu told Feng Tianxing that Su Lian planned to take Xu Chengling to the Upper Realm as a vessel to resurrect Zhu You.
• Yun Shiliu urged the Three Sovereigns Dao Palace elders to stop Su Lian and revealed that the Three Emperors Mirror had shown Xu Chengling the Three Emperors Diagram.
• Feng Tianxing sent a secret message to Jiang Xuanfeng, sacrificing some of his cultivation to seek help.
• Su Lian shattered Yun Shiliu’s Jade Slip and showed her an image of Three Sovereigns Dao Palace disciples suspended among corpses.
• Su Lian ordered Yun Shiliu to withdraw her people and remove the restrictions on Xu Chengling, or she would kill every disciple of the Three Sovereigns Dao Palace.

Su Lian tormented the Three Sovereigns Dao Palace captives while Yun Shiliu and Feng Tianxing watched the projected scene, waiting for help to arrive. Lü, Huang, and Elder Su attacked Su Lian, but she stopped Elder Su’s sword and tore the skin and a soul thread from his face.

• Su Lian pulled a pain-restraining soul thread from a captive and tortured him, enraging Yun Shiliu until Feng Tianxing suppressed her aura.
• Xu Chengling called out from the projection, begging his master to stop sending martial uncles to rescue him, and Feng Tianxing worried that his Dao heart might collapse.
• Elder Lü and Elder Huang struck Su Lian with a thunderous drum attack, shattering the true essence protecting her body.
• Elder Su attacked Su Lian with a giant sword phantom, but she stopped it with one hand and tore the skin and a five-colored soul thread from his face.

Feng Tianxing prepared to receive Xu Taiping and send him to True Martial Heaven while Su Lian fought the three elders. Su Lian revealed her Heavenly Thunder Variant Bone and overwhelmed the elders with Palm-Heart Thunder, leaving them trapped in a crumbling earthen barrier.

• Yun Shiliu questioned whether Elder Su could truly be defeated by pain, and Feng Tianxing received Jiang Xuanfeng's message that Xu Taiping was being sent out.
• Feng Tianxing opened the formation at Profound Heaven Hall, while Yun Shiliu explained how the Three Sovereigns Dao Palace could use the Three Emperors Mirror to send Xu Taiping to Zhenwu.
• Elder Lü endured having his arms broken and struck the phantom war drum, allowing Elder Su to unleash the extreme-law Thunder-Controlling Sword Art against Su Lian.
• Su Lian emerged unharmed, absorbed the elders' thunder attacks into Palm-Heart Thunder, and revealed her Heavenly Thunder Variant Bone.
• Su Lian blasted Elder Lü with Palm-Heart Thunder, and Elder Lü and Elder Huang shielded the three elders with layers of earth qi.
• Su Lian launched dozens of Palm-Heart Thunder spheres at the elders, rapidly breaking down their earthen defenses.

Xu Taiping returned to the Three Sovereigns Dao Palace and agreed to rescue Xu Chengling from Su Lian in True Martial Heaven. After receiving Yun Shiliu’s information and a White True Fruit from Feng Tianxing, he was sent to confront Su Lian as the three elders’ final protective layer broke.

• Xu Taiping arrived at the Three Sovereigns Dao Palace, reunited with Feng Tianxing, and revealed that he had only three to five years of lifespan left after fighting Dragon Emperor Ao Yan.
• Xu Taiping agreed to rescue his grandnephew Xu Chengling, while Yun Shiliu warned that Su Lian was close to breaking through the elders’ defenses.
• Xu Taiping asked Yun Shiliu for a divine soul mark about Su Lian and received a White True Fruit from Feng Tianxing to restore his strength.
• Yun Shiliu used the Three Emperors Mirror to send Xu Taiping to True Martial Heaven as Su Lian shattered the final layer protecting the three elders.

Su Lian tortured the Three Sovereigns Dao Palace elders to pressure Yun Shiliu and nearly broke Xu Chengling’s Dao heart by unleashing her overwhelming power. Xu Taiping arrived to save his great-grandnephew and attacked Su Lian with his Ultimate Realm, No-Blade Form.

• Su Lian extracted soul threads from three captured elders and tortured Elder Su while Xu Chengling pleaded for her to stop.
• Xu Chengling threatened Su Lian, but her aura overwhelmed him and began to make his Dao heart collapse.
• Xu Taiping descended from a sunlike light, and Xu Chengling recognized him as his great-granduncle.
• Xu Taiping drew the Water-Cutting Blade and unleashed the Ultimate Realm, No-Blade Form at Su Lian.

As Su Lian of the Nether Palace slaughtered the Three Sovereigns Dao Palace and taunted the lower realm, Xu Taiping descended to confront her. His overwhelming blade strike crushed her attack and sent her crashing into a hill, leaving the spectators stunned by his power.

• Cultivators in a Chenglong Heaven restaurant argued over Su Lian’s humiliation of the lower realm, while Cui Tiegu and Liu Zijin discussed whether the Azure Profound Sect would have intervened and what Xu Taiping would do.
• Su Lian crushed three Three Sovereigns Dao Palace elders and challenged the lower-realm cultivators, prompting Cui Tiegu to wonder whether the Three Sovereigns Dao Palace would protect Xu Chengling or its foundations.
• Xu Taiping appeared in the Battle-Watching Projection and mocked Su Lian by calling her a mayfly rather than a blue sky.
• Xu Taiping struck Su Lian with a vast blade shadow that erased her palm attack and drove her into a hill as his blade force ravaged the surrounding land.
• Cui Tiegu and the other spectators recognized the terrifying destructive power of Xu Taiping’s blade technique.

Xu Taiping fought Su Lian, breaking through her Black Tortoise Seal with his primordial chaos clone and a divine-seal treasure before smashing her body apart. As lightning gathered around her remains, Cui Tiegu suspected that she had the legendary thunderclap body.

• Su Lian tore through Xu Taiping’s blade shadows, but Xu Taiping countered with the Ultimate Realm Burning Blade Style and forced her to defend against his dragon-shaped blade qi.
• Xu Taiping’s primordial chaos clone attacked Su Lian with the Demon Ancestor Heaven-Shaking Fist, but her Black Tortoise Seal withstood its blows.
• A golden armguard bearing five divine seal halos appeared on the clone, and its strengthened Heaven-Touching strikes cracked and shattered Su Lian’s Black Tortoise dharma aspect.
• The clone merged with six divine manifestations to form a fourteen-armed dharma aspect, then struck Su Lian repeatedly and smashed her body into pieces.
• Thunderclouds gathered above Su Lian’s remains as pillars of light and lightning outlined an enormous body, prompting Cui Tiegu to wonder if she possessed the legendary thunderclap body.

Su Lian manifested her thunderclap body and trapped Xu Taiping under a barrage of thunder, but he countered with his true dragon forbidden domain. When the power began to fail, Xu Taiping heard familiar sword cries from the mist-sealed Azure Profound Sect and called on its disciples to lend him their swords.

• Su Lian summoned a thunderclap body and struck Xu Taiping with thunder spears and space-rending power, injuring him and trapping his primordial chaos clone.
• Xu Taiping used his true dragon forbidden domain to erase the thunder around him, though he realized he could sustain it only briefly.
• As Xu Taiping prepared to use the Dragon Vault Battle Armor and the Blade of Guicang, familiar wind and sword cries rose from the ruins of the Azure Profound Sect.
• Xu Taiping called out to his master, martial uncles, and fellow disciples, asking them to lend him their swords.
• Points of light appeared in the gray mist as Xu Taiping repeated his plea to borrow swords.

Xu Taiping endured Su Lian’s thunderous attacks and repeatedly called on the Azure Profound Sect for swords, while observers debated whether the sect’s people had returned. Hundreds of swords answered from the ruins, gathering around him as the battle continued.

• Liu Zijin and Cui Tiegu questioned why Xu Taiping had withdrawn his forbidden domain power when lights appeared in the Azure Profound Sect ruins.
• Feng Tianxing and Yun Shiliu were baffled by the lights as Xu Taiping repeatedly called himself a disciple of the Azure Profound Sect and asked to borrow swords.
• Su Lian struck Xu Taiping with thunder spears and tore away some of his dragon scales, but he continued calling to his martial uncles and fellow disciples.
• A light cluster burst apart, releasing an ancient sword whose cry rang throughout True Martial Heaven.
• Hundreds of light clusters exploded, and sword shadows rose from the ruins to gather around Xu Taiping.

Xu Taiping used Lü Daoxuan’s Hidden Sword Art to resist and dismantle Su Lian’s thunder attack. The spectators realized the technique could eventually achieve the sword cultivators’ long-sought goal of breaking all arts with a single sword.

• Yun Shiliu explained to Feng Tianxing that Xu Taiping’s sword cry planted sword intent in the hearts of those who witnessed it.
• Su Lian summoned four thunder-formed deities and sent them to strike Xu Taiping.
• Xu Taiping called on Rusty Lion to guide the hidden swords, which blocked the deities’ attack and broke its killing power into ancient seal script characters.
• Su Lian intensified the thunder and forced the sword shadows inward, but Xu Taiping used righteous sword light and the Sword-Disassembling Method to turn the deities and thunder into characters, then erased them.
• Yun Shiliu told Feng Tianxing that Xu Taiping’s technique could one day accomplish One Sword Breaks Ten Thousand Arts.

As Su Lian’s void-rending power shattered Xu Taiping’s summoned sword shadows, Xu Taiping hesitated to draw his Demon-Sealing Swords because he feared forgetting something precious. He recognized the sorrowful voices of the Cloud Lodge Peaks and called on them for swords, as countless immense beams of sword light rose behind him.

• Su Lian revealed hidden divine seal power and used her void-rending ability to break Xu Taiping’s sword shadows.
• Yun Shiliu asked Feng Tianxing for immortal swords, but he said it was too late and noted that Xu Taiping already possessed powerful swords of his own.
• Xu Taiping hesitated to use his Demon-Sealing Swords as he sensed a strange trembling from the gray mist and felt he might forget something precious.
• Xu Taiping remembered first seeing the Cloud Lodge Peaks with Senior Sister Linglong and Senior Brother Dugu, then heard the peaks’ mournful voices.
• Xu Taiping called for swords from all the Cloud Lodge Peaks, and seven towering sword lights followed by hundreds more surged from the mist behind him.

Xu Taiping used his mountain-sized sword shadows to dismantle Su Lian’s thunder and space-shattering powers, but she unleashed a desperate counterattack that forced him to meet a giant hand with Rusty Lion. In Dragonwhisker Town, Cui Tiegu reaffirmed his resolve to pursue his sword Dao despite Liu Zijin’s warning that Xu Taiping overshadowed all sword cultivators.

• Xu Taiping’s sword shadows turned Su Lian’s divine manifestations and space-shattering power into golden seal-script characters for annihilation.
• A cultivator in the tavern cried out that Xu Taiping had achieved one sword to break ten thousand arts, and Cui Tiegu asked Liu Zijin whom she would support if he fought Xu Taiping.
• Liu Zijin chose Xu Taiping because she owed him a life-saving debt and urged Cui Tiegu to give up the sword.
• Cui Tiegu refused to abandon his Dao and told Liu Zijin to collect his corpse if she would not help safeguard it.
• Su Lian used Liberation by Violence on herself, dispersing the characters for annihilation with a storm of thunder and spatial rifts.
• Xu Taiping grasped Rusty Lion and thrust it at the enormous hand Su Lian formed to seize him.

Xu Taiping defeated Su Lian, but her sacrifice summoned a strange hand that badly injured Xu Chengling before Xu Taiping sealed him in five-colored crystal. Heavenly Punishment destroyed Su Lian and the hand, and the chapter ended with Xu Taiping telling Yun Shiliu that Chengling was in bad shape.

• Xu Taiping unleashed his Hidden Sword Art and annihilated Su Lian’s shadow, but she sacrificed her fortune to summon her lord.
• A strange hand emerged from Su Lian and reached for Xu Chengling, so Xu Taiping used Form- and Shadow-Transposition Technique to protect him; the hand still destroyed Xu Chengling’s right eye.
• Xu Taiping used the Heaven-Replenishing Book’s power to encase Xu Chengling in five-colored crystal, which the strange hand could not crush.
• The strange hand recognized Xu Taiping as a Life-Replenisher and threatened him, but Heavenly Punishment struck it and Su Lian down.
• Yun Shiliu contacted Xu Taiping through a Jade Slip, and Xu Taiping told him that Chengling was in bad shape.

Sun Bing told Yun Shiliu that Xu Chengling had lost much of his fortune and cultivation talent, but Xu Taiping’s message restored Xu Chengling’s resolve to keep seeking a path through martial arts and other disciplines. At the Profound Elixir Palace, Xu Taiping considered earning a Purple Mansion Pill by becoming a Ziyang Sect Guest Attendant, then received word that Xiahou You had information about the Jade Pool Secret Realm.

• Sun Bing told Yun Shiliu that Xu Chengling’s injuries had cost him thirty percent of his fortune and cultivation talent, and said only killing the Nether Lord could remedy the loss.
• Xu Chengling heard Xu Taiping’s message urging him not to abandon cultivation, then asked Yun Shiliu to take him back to the Three Sovereigns Dao Palace so he could pursue martial arts or another discipline.
• Feng Tianxing suggested that Xu Taiping seek a Ziyang Sect Guest Attendant seat, since the sect rewarded attendants and elders who served it well with a Purple Mansion Pill.
• Duan Xiaoyu relayed that Xiahou You had left Xu Taiping information about the Jade Pool Secret Realm, prompting Xu Taiping to react with surprise.

Zhu Huai and the others gathered at the White Jade Tower for a banquet honoring Xu Taiping, discussing the Nether Palace’s threat and waiting for him to arrive. When Chu Xiaoxiao opened the door expecting Taiping, a stranger struck her and demanded that everyone leave the private room on behalf of the Jiang Household.

• Mu Yun welcomed Zhu Huai, Zhang Moyan, and the others to their private room at the White Jade Tower for a banquet honoring Xu Taiping.
• The group discussed Xu Chengling’s ruined cultivation prospects and worried that Taiping had made an enemy of the Nether Palace by defeating Su Lian.
• Duan Xiaoyu explained that Xiahou You and Xiahou Qingyuan had left Chenglong Heaven on urgent clan business, while Chu Xiaoxiao urged her to contact Taiping.
• Chu Xiaoxiao rushed to answer a knock, but an unseen attacker struck her and shattered her Protective Dharma Treasure.
• A domineering young woman entered and ordered everyone to surrender the private room to the Jiang Household.

At White Jade Tower, Mu Yun, Zhu Huai, and Jiang Cuicui clashed with Jiang Yan and two Jiang Household elders over a private room, while Ningchan Cave cultivators urged the elders to deal with them. Feng Tianxing and Xu Taiping arrived at the restaurant, where the house master challenged Feng Tianxing’s ranking of White Jade Brew.

• Jiang Yan attacked Chu Xiaoxiao and demanded that Mu Yun’s group leave the private room, but Zhu Huai and Mu Yun stopped her flying sword and their aura sent her into a wall.
• Jiang Zhou arrived, heard Jiang Yan’s misleading account, and accused Mu Yun’s group of taking the room and hurting his granddaughter.
• Jiang Zhou’s black-haired younger brother and cultivators from Ningchan Cave arrived, and the two Jiang elders demanded that Zhu Huai and Mu Yun leave.
• Zhu Huai refused the elders’ demand, while Mu Yun tried to explain that the private room belonged to his group.
• Feng Tianxing and Xu Taiping entered White Jade Tower, where Feng Tianxing praised White Jade Brew and the middle-aged man at the counter interrupted to object to its fifth-place ranking.

Xu Taiping and Feng Tianxing reunited with Du Kang at White Jade Tower, where Du Kang offered them three jars of his father's Three-Thousand-Year White Jade Brew. As they reached the private room where Xu Taiping's friends were waiting, Duan Xiaoyu was hurled through the doorway, and Xu Taiping's aura erupted.

• Feng Tianxing recognized Du Kang, the master of White Jade Tower, and introduced him to Xu Taiping.
• Du Kang greeted Xu Taiping warmly and offered to arrange a more prestigious private room, but Xu Taiping said his friends had booked the Earth Character Bing Room.
• Du Kang agreed to bring three jars of his father's Three-Thousand-Year White Jade Brew and led Xu Taiping and Shopkeeper Lu upstairs.
• Shopkeeper Lu explained that he had reserved the room for Xu Taiping's friends, but the room's door was suddenly blasted off its hinges.
• Duan Xiaoyu flew out of the room, and Xu Taiping's aura erupted, shaking the restaurant.

Xu Taiping arrived at White Jade Tower and stopped the Jiang Clan’s black-robed Elder from hurting Duan Xiaoyu, then crushed the Elder and Jiang Hu with Mountain Spirit Power. After Zhu Huai and Mu Yun warned him about an ambush inside the side room, Xu Taiping froze the flames at its entrance and walked in.

• The Jiang Clan’s black-robed Clan Elder attacked Duan Xiaoyu, but Xu Taiping knocked him through a side room and pinned him to the floor with Mountain Spirit Power.
• Xu Taiping helped Duan Xiaoyu up, and she told him the Elder had struck her by surprise.
• The Elder accused Duan Xiaoyu and her companions of seizing the Jiang Clan’s reserved room, while Jiang Hu claimed they had attacked Jiang Clan youths first.
• Zhu Huai warned Xu Taiping that three Lower Realm disciples of Ningchan Cave had prepared a killing formation and magic artifacts inside the side room, and Mu Yun urged him not to enter rashly.
• Xu Taiping slammed Jiang Hu into the floor, extinguished the flames at the doorway with true dragon frost heaven power, and entered the side room.