Recaps

The Sixth Princess and her guards faced Zhu Tianze, who attacked Mantuo Manor with Blood Spider Valley’s Blood Demon Spider and demanded that she marry him. The next morning, Xu Taiping reached Qingluo Valley, found it covered in spiderwebs, and saw a blood-soaked rider approaching.

• The Sixth Princess told General Chu that her mother’s brocade pouch said they needed to meet someone who could help defeat Fan Qi, but she agreed to withdraw when General Chu warned of Blood Spider Valley’s threat.
• Zhu Tianze arrived atop a Blood Demon Spider, captured guards in silk cocoons, and gave the Sixth Princess one night to accept his marriage proposal.
• General Chu ordered the guards to use Light Purifying Smoke and take shelter as the spider covered Mantuo Manor in a vast web.
• Xu Taiping reached Qingluo Valley, sensed a strong smell of blood, and cautiously entered after Fairy Lingyue identified the spiderwebs as the work of a Blood Demon Spider.
• An armored man drenched in blood galloped toward Xu Taiping from deep within the valley.

Xu Taiping reached Qingluo Valley and discovered that Blood Spider Valley had taken Princess Li Yu hostage. He killed the attackers with swift saber and fist techniques, leaving the guard wondering if Xu Taiping was the reinforcement Her Highness had awaited.

• An armored guard fled toward the entrance of Qingluo Valley, but Blood Spider Valley fighters captured him after bringing down his horse.
• Xu Taiping asked the Blood Spider Valley men whether they had seen Princess Li Yu, and the guard revealed that they had taken her hostage.
• The burly leader confirmed that Princess Li Yu was alive, and Xu Taiping prepared to rescue her.
• The burly leader attacked Xu Taiping, but Xu Taiping cut him down with a single saber strike.
• Blood Spider Valley's subordinates charged Xu Taiping, who destroyed them with a barrage of fist strikes.
• The captured guard asked whether Xu Taiping was the one Her Highness had been waiting for.

Xu Taiping rescued Cao Qianhu, learned that Blood Spider Valley had surrounded Mantuo Manor and forced the Sixth Princess to agree to marry its Young Master, then headed into the valley to save her. When Blood Spider Valley reinforcements confronted him, Xu Taiping prepared to test his Spring Tiger Saber.

• Xu Taiping burned the Blood Demon Spider that had fled, then gave Cao Qianhu a Minor Restoration Pill and learned he was the Sixth Princess's personal guard.
• Cao Qianhu told Xu Taiping that Blood Spider Valley had trapped everyone in Mantuo Manor and coerced the Sixth Princess into agreeing to marry its Young Master, who sought the rumored immortal power within her.
• Xu Taiping asked Cao Qianhu to wait with his horse and walked into the valley, unwilling to risk delaying the rescue by seeking reinforcements.
• Cao Qianhu followed Xu Taiping, and they encountered Blood Spider Valley fighters and two Blood Demon Spiders in the valley.
• Xu Taiping told Cao Qianhu to stand aside and prepared to test his Spring Tiger Saber against the approaching enemies.

Xu Taiping slaughtered the Blood Spider Valley pursuers and followed Cao Qianhu into Mantuo Manor, where the Sixth Princess was being forced to complete a wedding ceremony with the valley’s young master. The chapter left her walking toward the main hall to delay him while hoping Xu Taiping would arrive in time.

• Xu Taiping used the Spring Tiger Saber to cut down the Blood Spider Valley men and killed two fleeing Blood Demon Spiders with his fists.
• Fairy Lingyue told Xu Taiping that Blood Demon Spider silk required human blood food, and he realized the spiders had cost at least a hundred lives.
• Xu Taiping stored the spider corpses in his Azure Gourd and ordered Cao Qianhu to follow him.
• At Mantuo Manor, Blood Spider Valley underlings brought the injured General Chu before the Sixth Princess and revealed that Cao Qianhu had fled through the front entrance.
• The Blood Spider Valley young master demanded that the Sixth Princess complete their wedding bows, claiming he would then release her guards.
• The Sixth Princess went toward the main hall, resigned to buying time while hoping Xu Taiping would come.

Xu Taiping and Cao Qianhu arrived at Mantuo Manor during the Sixth Princess’s forced wedding to the Young Master of Blood Spider Valley. After breaking into the spider-guarded courtyard, Xu Taiping asked the Sixth Princess if she was there.

• The Young Master of Blood Spider Valley threatened the Sixth Princess with the Blood Demon Spider Ancestor until she agreed to proceed with the wedding.
• An explosion interrupted the ceremony, and the Young Master led his disciples outside while the matchmaker held the Sixth Princess at the hall entrance.
• Blood Spider Valley disciples fled back into the courtyard, reporting that a young man with exceptional blade techniques had overwhelmed them.
• The Young Master summoned Uncle Ya and ordered Blood Demon Spiders to guard the courtyard as the intruder approached.
• The Sixth Princess called out from inside, but the matchmaker sealed her acupoints at the Young Master's command.
• Xu Taiping shattered the courtyard gates with blade light, entered with Cao Qianhu, and asked the Sixth Princess if she was Her Highness.

Xu Taiping rescued the Sixth Princess from the Young Master of Blood Spider Valley and his Blood Demon Spiders. The Young Master fled with an important token belonging to the princess, but Xu Taiping refused to pursue him because his mission was only to keep her safe.

• Xu Taiping told the restrained Sixth Princess he had been sent to escort her, then held his ground as the Young Master of Blood Spider Valley ordered the Blood Demon Spiders to attack.
• Xu Taiping pulled the spiders from their webs, shattered the Young Master's Sword Shadows with a punch, and knocked down the Demon Lord Level Blood Demon Spider.
• Xu Taiping reached the Sixth Princess and stopped the matchmaker from killing her, then unsealed her acupoints.
• The Young Master of Blood Spider Valley fled on the Demon Lord Level Blood Demon Spider, and Xu Taiping defeated the remaining attackers in the courtyard.
• The Sixth Princess asked Xu Taiping to recover her important token, but he said his duty was only to keep her safe.

Xu Taiping confirmed the Sixth Princess’s identity and decided to pursue the Young Master of Blood Spider Valley after learning a possible Demon King-level Blood Demon Spider lived there. He charged into One-Line Sky with the princess and broke through an ambush with a single saber strike, leaving her convinced the bracelet prophecy was coming true.

• Xu Taiping compared the Sixth Princess’s half of the jade bracelet with his own and confirmed her identity.
• Cao Qianhu warned that Blood Spider Valley might harbor a king-level Blood Demon Spider, and Xu Taiping decided to go there with the Sixth Princess while leaving Minor Restoration Pills for the wounded guards.
• Xu Taiping and the Sixth Princess rode to One-Line Sky after tracking the Young Master of Blood Spider Valley’s aura to the gorge.
• Blood Demon Spiders trapped them with falling boulders and webs, but Xu Taiping destroyed the ambush with one saber strike and raced through the gorge.
• The Sixth Princess remembered her mother’s promise and eagerly clutched Xu Taiping’s robe.

Xu Taiping fought his way through Blood Spider Valley and reached the Blood Pool altar, forcing Cinnabar Ink to awaken the Blood Spider Ancestor from seclusion. The Ancestor emerged with his Spider Demon Art at the sixth layer and prepared to face Xu Taiping as the rider broke through the altar gate.

• Zhu Tianze told Cinnabar Ink that a mountain cultivator had wounded him and urged him to summon the Blood Spider Ancestor.
• Xu Taiping charged through Blood Spider Valley on horseback, cutting down its defenses, subordinates, and Blood Demon Spiders.
• Cinnabar Ink crushed a Blood Jade to summon the Ancestor, interrupting his secluded breakthrough.
• The Blood Spider Ancestor emerged from the drained Blood Pool and declared that his Spider Demon Art had reached the sixth layer and his Blood Spider Spear had reached minor completion.
• Xu Taiping reached the altar and shattered its stone gate with repeated blade strikes.

Xu Taiping confronted Blood Spider Valley over its attacks on the Sixth Princess and demanded that the Blood Spider Ancestor become his spirit pet for three hundred years. Their fight began, and Xu Taiping burned away the Ancestor’s blood web.

• Xu Taiping helped the Sixth Princess dismount and said Blood Spider Valley had offended her, not him.
• The Sixth Princess accused Cinnabar Ink and the Blood Spider Ancestor of hunting her and killing her guards, while Xu Taiping shielded her from the Ancestor’s murderous aura.
• Xu Taiping asked the Blood Spider Ancestor to repay him by serving as his spirit pet for three hundred years, then handed Ping'an to the Sixth Princess.
• The enraged Blood Spider Ancestor attacked with spider silk and its eight legs, but Xu Taiping parried its strikes and knocked it backward with Steel-Breaking of Three Kills.
• The Blood Spider Ancestor cast its refined blood web over Xu Taiping, but he destroyed it with a ball of fire.

Xu Taiping pummeled the Blood Spider Ancestor and froze him with his Ice Breath Art, completing Fairy Lingyue’s test. When the Young Master of Blood Spider Valley took the Sixth Princess hostage, Ping'an killed him and then struck down the attacking Blood Demon Spiders.

• Xu Taiping pierced the Blood Spider Ancestor with One-Finger Cloud-Piercing, then battered him with 108 punches.
• Xu Taiping stopped the Blood Spider Ancestor from going berserk by freezing him with Ice Breath Art, and Fairy Lingyue praised his progress.
• The Young Master of Blood Spider Valley took the Sixth Princess hostage while Zhu Mo ordered the Blood Demon Spiders to block Xu Taiping.
• Xu Taiping told Ping'an to act, and Ping'an grew enormous and killed the Young Master of Blood Spider Valley with one punch.
• Zhu Mo sent Blood Demon Spiders after the Sixth Princess and Ping'an, but Ping'an kicked two of them to pieces.

Xu Taiping rescued the Sixth Princess from the Blood Spider Valley, then learned that her mother had left her a plan involving a request to kill someone. The Sixth Princess offered him Su Chan’s scabbard as payment, and Xu Taiping agreed to consider the request after Fairy Lingyue sensed a terrifying sword aura from the ring.

• Little Monkey killed the valley lord and then clambered into the Sixth Princess’s arms, while Xu Taiping captured the Blood Spider Ancestor in the Azure Gourd.
• Xu Taiping recovered the black iron box from Zhu Tianze and the valley lord’s remains and returned it to the Sixth Princess.
• The Sixth Princess checked that her mother’s two brocade pouches were safe, opened the yellow one, and found a note and a Bronze Ring.
• The Sixth Princess asked Xu Taiping to help her kill someone, and he initially refused until Fairy Lingyue warned him that the ring carried a terrifying sword cultivator’s aura.
• The Sixth Princess revealed that the treasure was the scabbard of the former Great Sword Immortal and Nine Prefectures Sword Champion Su Chan.

Xu Taiping learned that the Sixth Princess wanted him to kill Fan Qi, the former White Tree Kingdom general responsible for a devastating massacre. She explained that Fan Qi’s death was also a condition for her to meet Wujiao Country’s emperor, and Xu Taiping still needed to decide whether to help her.

• Fairy Lingyue judged Su Chan’s scabbard valuable enough to nourish Xu Taiping’s Earth Fruit, but Xu Taiping said he would first need to know whom the Sixth Princess wanted killed and why.
• Xu Taiping and the Sixth Princess left Blood Spider Valley as the rescued villagers thanked them, while the valley burned behind them.
• At Mantuo Manor, the Sixth Princess identified Fan Qi as the target and recounted how his defection led to the massacre of nine White Tree Kingdom cities.
• The Sixth Princess explained that Fan Qi had become a Martial Arts Grandmaster and killed every challenger at his life-and-death arena.
• Xu Taiping asked whether Fan Qi’s death was connected to the Sixth Princess’s journey, and she said it was a condition for meeting Wujiao Country’s emperor.

The Sixth Princess explained that Wujiao Country had forced her into a perilous peace mission, and Xu Taiping decided to face Fan Qi using martial arts alone to avoid violating the Immortal Law Bureau’s rules. After his cultivation session, Fairy Lingyue offered to teach him a method from the Flame Emperor Furnace Art that used turbid qi to temper his apertures.

• The Sixth Princess told Xu Taiping that Wujiao Country required her to travel through designated cities and defeat Fan Qi before entering its Imperial City, and she had accepted to buy the White Tree Kingdom time to evacuate.
• Xu Taiping explained that mountain cultivators could not interfere in the martial world, then proposed fighting Fan Qi with martial arts alone and asked the Sixth Princess to prepare a dossier on him.
• The Sixth Princess warned Xu Taiping that Fan Qi was a peerless martial artist, but Xu Taiping left for his quarters to meditate and practice.
• After circulating the Rosy Dawn Scripture for three greater celestial circuits, Xu Taiping described the weight he felt while cultivating in the mortal world.
• Fairy Lingyue offered to teach Xu Taiping the Aperture-Pressing Chapter’s Turbid Qi Pressing Seven Apertures method, which used turbid qi to weigh down his apertures.

Xu Taiping began training with the Aperture-Pressing Chapter and prepared to accompany the Sixth Princess to Furious Fist Manor to confront Fan Qi. Their journey was interrupted at a ruined Old Mountain Temple, where an uncanny apparition appeared after the party shut its doors.

• Fairy Lingyue guided Xu Taiping in adding turbid qi to his apertures and explained how the Aperture-Pressing Chapter and Bone-Hammering Chapter strengthened his body.
• The Sixth Princess brought Xu Taiping records about Fan Qi, affirmed she would stay in Wujiao Country to protect her people, and said she trusted the final brocade pouch from her mother to guide her.
• Xu Taiping arranged to leave for Furious Fist Manor at dawn with the Sixth Princess.
• A sudden downpour forced Xu Taiping, the Sixth Princess, and their guards to shelter in a ruined temple thirty or forty li from Huangmei Town.
• After Cao Qianhu shut the temple doors, a naked, vacant-eyed man bearing Old Qian's face stood outside, though the sky showed no sign of rain.

Xu Taiping realized that a great ghost had cast an illusion over the guards and the Sixth Princess, making them see a ghost feast as ordinary food. He tried to keep the Sixth Princess from eating the enchanted meal while they waited for the ghost to reveal itself.

• Xu Taiping ate his own roasted lamb while Fairy Lingyue explained that the guards' food was a ghost feast that weakened their yang energy.
• Xu Taiping and Fairy Lingyue determined that killing the hidden great ghost was the only way to free the others from the illusion without harming them.
• The Sixth Princess joined the guards and began eating what she believed was Old Qian's Fragrant Jade Hairpin, which Xu Taiping saw as chopped cockroaches.
• Xu Taiping invited the Sixth Princess to try his lamb and urged her to avoid other food first, stopping her from eating the cockroach.

Xu Taiping served the Sixth Princess roast lamb while pretending to be affected by the spirit creature’s illusion. The Sixth Princess endured the revolting taste to spare his feelings, and Xu Taiping kept urging her to eat more.

• Xu Taiping saw Lao Qian as a goat spirit and resolved to deal with him after drawing out his master.
• The Sixth Princess tasted Xu Taiping’s roast lamb and struggled to swallow it because the illusion had distorted her sense of taste.
• The Sixth Princess tried to leave for Lao Qian’s Fragrant Jade Hairpin, but Xu Taiping feigned offense and offered her another piece.
• The Sixth Princess dismissed General Chu and Cao Qianhu’s attempt to intervene, then swallowed the second piece of lamb.
• Xu Taiping asked how the lamb tasted, and the Sixth Princess called it wonderful before he cut her another piece.

Xu Taiping and the Sixth Princess waited for the Nature Spirits to reveal themselves while pretending to be weakened by the ghost banquet. The fox spirit and its creatures attacked the temple, but Xu Taiping remained alert as the fox spirit approached the Sixth Princess.

• Xu Taiping fed the Sixth Princess and watched the Guards grow weaker as their yang energy drained away.
• A fox spirit and a Pig Demon arrived disguised as a soaked woman and an old man with a child, and General Chu let them into the temple.
• The fox spirit announced that it was time for the Nature Spirits to feast, and the Goat Demon and clay statues knocked out General Chu and the Guards.
• The fox spirit approached the Sixth Princess and threatened to eat her heart and liver, but Xu Taiping raised his head and faced her.

Xu Taiping defeated a fox spirit that had trapped the group in an illusion and ambushed them at a mass grave. After the illusion ended, the Sixth Princess and the guards awoke to discover the demonic creatures and a ghost feast around them.

• Xu Taiping overwhelmed the spirits with his danxia true qi and demanded to know who had ordered the ambush.
• The fox spirit threatened to kill the others, then tried to charm Xu Taiping into sparing it.
• Xu Taiping killed the fox spirit with the Spring Tiger Saber and captured its remnant soul in the Azure Gourd.
• Xu Taiping picked up a bracelet of fox teeth while Fairy Lingyue began examining the fox spirit's remnant soul.
• The Sixth Princess, General Chu, Cao Qianhu, and the guards awoke and realized they were in an overgrown mass grave rather than a ruined temple.
• The group found plates of dead rats, cockroaches, and maggots, and General Chu and Cao Qianhu recognized them as a ghost feast.

Xu Taiping revealed that the guards had eaten food from a fox spirit’s illusion, then met Huang Que, a Xiaoyao Sect disciple and Immortal Law Bureau Walker. Huang Que warned him that he would die if he faced Fan Qi without using cultivation, but Xu Taiping refused to abandon the mission.

• Xu Taiping told the Sixth Princess and the guards that a fox spirit had trapped them in an illusion and that everyone except him and the Sixth Princess had eaten ghost food; the revelation made them vomit.
• Huang Que appeared at the mass graveyard, introduced himself as a Xiaoyao Sect disciple and Immortal Law Bureau Walker, and used the Merit and Demerit Register to verify his identity.
• Huang Que confirmed that Xu Taiping was traveling to Furious Fist Manor to fight in the Life-and-Death Arena for the Sixth Princess.
• Huang Que warned that Fan Qi was a Martial Arts Grandmaster and that using spells in the arena would violate Bureau rules, while fighting him without cultivation would mean certain death.
• Xu Taiping said he would not abandon the mission and would choose his life over the Immortal Law Bureau’s rules if forced to choose.

Xu Taiping explored Huangmei Town with the Sixth Princess before the Life-and-Death Arena at Furious Fist Manor, despite struggling under the weight of his training. When a runaway carriage threatened two children, he and a mysterious old man stopped it together, each recognizing the other's extraordinary strength.

• Huang Que denied knowing anything about the fox spirit and vanished after telling Xu Taiping they would meet at Furious Fist Manor.
• The Sixth Princess showed Xu Taiping Fan Qi's manor, and he explained through his actions that he needed to keep moving while adjusting to the strain of carrying five thousand jin.
• Xu Taiping and the Sixth Princess walked through town with Little Taiping, and he decided to wait until after the arena to give a beggar Eighth Senior Brother's money pouch.
• A driverless carriage drawn by three horses charged toward two children, so Xu Taiping ordered Ping'an to protect the Sixth Princess and rushed to stop it.
• A short, thin, bald old man joined Xu Taiping in knocking the horses and carriage backward, saving the children; the two then exchanged astonished looks at each other's strength.

Xu Taiping met a powerful old man whose identity he suspected might be Fan Qi, then returned to the inn and learned that Huang Que knew his Second Senior Brother. The old man left for the Drunken Immortal Abode, while Huang Que warned Xu Taiping to prioritize staying alive before his arena challenge.

• Xu Taiping exchanged greetings with a frail-looking old man whose strength suggested he might be near the Martial Dao Supreme realm, and Fairy Lingyue noted that someone would recognize him if he were the notorious Fan Qi.
• The old man comforted two children, invited Xu Taiping for a drink, and advised him that entering the Life-and-Death Arena at his age was premature before heading to the Drunken Immortal Abode.
• The Sixth Princess told Xu Taiping that Fan Qi wore a mask in the arena and that his unmistakable killing intent came from slaughtering people of the White Tree Kingdom.
• Back at the inn, Xu Taiping asked the Sixth Princess to take Little Monkey upstairs and confronted Huang Que about following him.
• Huang Que said Xu Taiping's Second Senior Brother shared his concerns and urged him to keep himself alive before departing.

Xu Taiping prepared to face Fan Qi in the Life-and-Death Arena, while the Sixth Princess learned that wandering heroes had come to fight and die for her. The arena opened with Fan Zhong named as the first challenger, as Xu Taiping waited for his turn.

• Xu Taiping resolved to challenge Fan Qi to win Su Chan's sword scabbard and hone his martial arts.
• General Chu and Cao Qianhu told the Sixth Princess that Fan Zhong and other wandering heroes had gathered to weaken Fan Qi for Xu Taiping, and she vowed to remember their sacrifices.
• Xu Taiping signed the life-and-death waiver after other challengers crowded ahead of him.
• Fan Qi entered the arena and invited challengers to fight him for his life and the possessions of Furious Fist Manor.
• Fan Ye announced Fan Zhong as the first challenger.

Fan Zhong challenged Fan Qi over a generations-old grudge and used the Acupoint-Exploding Technique to fight beyond his limits. Fan Qi ultimately struck him out of the arena with a single punch, leaving his survival unclear.

• Fan Zhong confronted Fan Qi, invoking his great-grandfather Fan Sheng’s dying order to avenge him, and Fan Qi removed his mask to face him openly.
• Fan Zhong attacked with surging gang qi, but Fan Qi read his moves and broke Fan Zhong’s leg with a palm strike.
• Fan Zhong revealed his Acupoint-Exploding Technique, severed his own broken leg, and exploded the Bright Clarity Acupoint to increase his strength.
• Huang Que explained to Xu Taiping that the technique could briefly surpass a Martial Dao Grandmaster’s power, but using all seven life acupoints would leave its user with fewer than ten breaths to live.
• Fan Zhong pressed his attack with a knife-hand strike, but Fan Qi dodged, kicked him into the air, and punched him out of the arena in a burst of blood.

Fan Zhong returned to the Life-and-Death Arena and fought Fan Qi with the Acupoint-Exploding Technique, seeking to restore the Fan Household Fist's name rather than win. His final kick forced Fan Qi back a step, but Fan Qi fatally struck him, and Fan Zhong did not rise again.

• Xu Taiping and Huang Que assessed Fan Qi's strength and caution as Fan Zhong climbed back onto the arena despite his injuries.
• Fan Zhong condemned Fan Qi for betraying the White Tree Kingdom and the Fan Household, then declared that he sought only to restore the Fan Household Fist's name.
• Fan Zhong activated the Acupoint-Exploding Technique and exchanged Cauldron-Shattering punches with Fan Qi, losing both arms without harming him.
• Fan Zhong unleashed the technique's final explosion and kicked at Fan Qi, declaring he had no regrets about dying for the Sixth Princess and the people of the White Tree Kingdom.
• Fan Qi met Fan Zhong's kick with a Cauldron-Shattering punch, shattered his thigh, and punched through his chest; Fan Zhong fell from the arena and never got up.

After Fan Zhong, Qi Yan, and other wandering knights died challenging Fan Qi to defend the Sixth Princess, Xu Taiping understood their resolve and prepared to take his turn. He entered the arena determined not to waste the kindness they had shown the princess.

• Fan Zhong died after his final strike failed to hurt Fan Qi, and Xu Taiping praised his courage.
• Qi Yan challenged Fan Qi because the Sixth Princess had once saved his life, but Fan Qi killed him with a single punch.
• Xu Taiping asked Wang Zhenghao to let him challenge Fan Qi first, but Wang refused and was killed in the arena.
• As more wandering knights died for the Sixth Princess and the White Tree Kingdom, Xu Taiping watched their bouts and grew solemnly respectful.
• After the last wandering knight's corpse was carried away, Xu Taiping walked toward the arena and vowed not to waste their kindness.