Recaps

Xu Taiping used the Heavenly Wrath Four Symbols Art to summon three Human-God Push-Back Images and break through to the third level of Blade Qi Manifestation. As Su Chan attacked without using Wuji's Unrestricted Method, Xu Taiping drew his Water-Cutting Blade and unleashed the Life-Taking Blade's God-Slaying Form.

• Xu Taiping summoned a third Human-God Push-Back Image and prepared to use the God-Slaying Form against Su Chan.
• Su Chan shattered Xu Taiping's azure flame sphere with Taotie Sword Qi, but Xu Taiping's blade qi transformed into twin dragons that destroyed the falling swords.
• Mu Zhixing recognized Xu Taiping's Blade Qi Twin-Dragon Manifestation and said the Heavenly Wrath Four Symbols Art had helped him reach the breakthrough.
• Su Chan appeared above Xu Taiping and struck with Taotie, piercing the twin dragons while declaring Xu Taiping was not worthy of making him use Wuji's Unrestricted Method.
• Xu Taiping drew the Water-Cutting Blade, manifesting a towering white-armored divine general that slashed toward Taotie as he declared that gods who did evil could be slain.

Xu Taiping’s God-Slaying Form overwhelmed Su Chan’s Taotie Sword Qi, but Su Chan trapped him inside a black sphere with the Power of Wuji’s Unrestricted Method. Xu Taiping remained confident and prepared to push his Blood Qi tempering beyond the Immaculate Realm.

• Xu Taiping’s God-Slaying Form shattered Su Chan’s Giant Sword and drove through his Taotie Sword Qi as the spectators cheered.
• Mu Zhixing identified the White Armor Saber Wielder as Pei Wuming, the Human Race’s Blade Ancestor.
• Su Chan used Swallow the Heavens Within Inches to swallow Xu Taiping and the White Armor Saber Wielder into a black sphere.
• The spectators feared Xu Taiping had been defeated, but he returned his blade to its sheath and told Fairy Lingyue he could still win.
• Xu Taiping asked Fairy Lingyue for permission to raise his Blood Qi tempering beyond the Immaculate Realm, and she agreed.

Xu Taiping revealed his second-turn overlord blood qi body tempering power to break free of Su Chan’s Black Sphere, despite the risk of exposing his secret to the Nine Abysses. He briefly expanded the sphere, but Su Chan clenched it shut again and threatened to merge Xu Taiping with his Divine Water.

• Xu Taiping’s blood qi body tempering power reached the second-turn overlord realm after decades of cultivation in the Golden Court Grotto-Heaven.
• With Fairy Lingyue’s permission, Xu Taiping struck his chest and unleashed his overlord power, turning his dragon scales crimson and causing his aura to flare.
• Xu Taiping scattered the black water inside Su Chan’s Black Sphere and forced it to expand, drawing cheers from the surrounding stands.
• Su Chan clenched the Black Sphere back down to palm size and said he would merge Xu Taiping with his Divine Water before sending it to Qingxuan.

Xu Taiping adapted to the Second-Turn Overlord Body-Tempering Power, broke free of Su Chan’s black sphere, and shattered his incoming swords with the Baxia Form. He revealed that he had cultivated the Ancestral Sage Fist’s Baxia Form to the realm of Extreme Law and stood poised above Su Chan.

• Xu Taiping asked Fairy Lingyue when the Overlord’s Breath had last appeared in the Mortal Realm, and she recalled rumors from the Heaven-Demon Battlefield thirty thousand years earlier.
• Xu Taiping’s gathered Fist Force blasted apart Su Chan’s black water, causing the black sphere to swell as spectators cheered.
• Su Chan sent hundreds of enormous black swords toward the sphere, but Xu Taiping adapted to the Second-Turn Overlord Body-Tempering Power and exploded it with a single step.
• Xu Taiping used the Baxia Form to smash Su Chan’s black swords into mist with one punch.
• Xu Taiping appeared above Su Chan and declared the Ancestral Sage Fist’s Baxia Form to be a Martial Dao Extreme Law.

Xu Taiping broke through Su Chan’s mirror-like defense with a blade technique and sent him crashing into a lake, then prepared to strike him again. The chapter ended as Xu Taiping’s golden fist appeared over the lake and he unleashed the Ancestral Sage Fist’s Raging Thunder Form.

• Xu Taiping’s Extreme Law fist battered Su Chan’s black lotus defense, but Su Chan made the lotus bloom into a mirror that reflected and countered Xu Taiping’s attacks.
• Mu Zhixing identified Su Chan’s mirror technique as resembling the Haotian Mirror and said the ancient divine artifact belonged to the Abyssal Pavilion.
• Xu Taiping transformed his fist into a vast blade and split the black lotus mirror before striking Su Chan with the attack.
• Su Chan’s Sword Intent collapsed, and he fell through several mountain peaks into a great lake.
• Xu Taiping appeared above the lake and unleashed the Ancestral Sage Fist’s Raging Thunder Form.

Xu Taiping drove Su Chan into the lakebed with his Extreme Law Raging Thunder Form, then completed its first stage at Great Perfection with a punch carrying the might of eighteen hundred strikes. Su Chan conjured a black pagoda with Wuji's Unrestricted Method to meet the blow, and the chapter ended as Xu Taiping's fist crashed down on it.

• Xu Taiping hammered Su Chan into the lakebed with his Raging Thunder Form while spectators praised his Martial Dao Extreme Laws and Fist-Hidden Blade.
• Su Chan sent a Taotie phantom at Xu Taiping, but Xu Taiping turned his Fist Shadow into blade light and cleaved it apart.
• Xu Taiping continued striking Su Chan until his Raging Thunder Form's Fist Force neared the first-stage Great Perfection threshold.
• Xu Taiping landed the eighteen-hundredth punch, concentrating the power of every strike into one blow.
• Su Chan conjured a black pagoda through Wuji's Unrestricted Method, and Xu Taiping's Great Perfection punch struck it.

Xu Taiping fought Su Chan, whose Haotian Pagoda converted Xu Taiping’s punches into killing power for the Taotie Sword. As Su Chan’s sword threatened to cut apart Xu Taiping’s Mountain-Setting Fist, Xu Taiping revealed Overlord Power and prepared to unleash the Raging Thunder Form’s third-stage Mountain-Setting Fist.

• Xu Taiping shattered Su Chan’s Haotian Pagoda with his punches, while Mu Zhixing recognized the extraordinary force behind them.
• Su Chan revealed that the Haotian Pagoda stored the power of Xu Taiping’s punches in the Taotie Sword, then absorbed the force of thousands of blows as the sword’s seven gems lit.
• Xu Taiping destroyed the pagoda with his twenty-seven-hundredth punch, and Su Chan wielded the charged Taotie Sword to form a massive black moon wheel around Xu Taiping’s Mountain-Setting Fist.
• Xu Taiping roared as the black moon wheel began slicing apart his fist shadow, revealing Overlord Power and multiplying his fist force.
• Xu Taiping announced the Extreme Law’s Raging Thunder third-stage Mountain-Setting Fist.

Xu Taiping unleashed Overlord War Cry and struck Su Chan with the extreme-law third-stage Mountain-Setting Fist, overwhelming her defenses. As his attack closed in, Su Chan invoked Wuji's Unrestricted Method and Taotie transformed into a black lotus throne beneath her.

• Xu Taiping used Overlord War Cry to bring out the ultimate-realm power of his Mountain-Setting Fist and broke free of Su Chan's black moon wheel.
• Xu Taiping's fist force crushed the surrounding mountainous terrain into a basin before Su Chan's sword light stopped its advance.
• Mu Zhixing praised the power of Overlord War Cry, while Mu Yun and the others wondered whether Xu Taiping had obtained its inheritance in the Mysterious Wasteland Tower.
• Chu Tiancheng insisted Xu Taiping had gained his techniques in the tower, recalling dreams in which he had seen Xu Taiping's adventures there.
• Xu Taiping's golden Bull Demon Phantom shattered Su Chan's sword light, and Su Chan summoned Taotie into a black lotus throne with Thousand-Petal Sacred Lotus.

Xu Taiping used the Demon Ancestor’s View Mountains and Embrace the Moon Fist Intent to break Su Chan’s Thousand-Petal Sacred Lotus and strike him into a massive crater. The cultivators of True Martial Heaven believed Su Chan had lost.

• Xu Taiping’s punch shattered most of Su Chan’s black lotus petals but stalled against the remaining petals, leaving the cultivators of True Martial Heaven despairing.
• Yun Ye and Yun Shiliu sensed that Xu Taiping had not released the full force of his punch and was comprehending something.
• Xu Taiping recalled the Demon Ancestor’s teaching on View Mountains and Embrace the Moon and decided to use the fist intent instead of switching to a blade.
• Xu Taiping enveloped the peaks across Mount Taiyue Immortal Abode with his Divine Soul Power, causing his fading fist force to surge.
• Xu Taiping’s Bull Demon Fist Shadow crushed the Thousand-Petal Sacred Lotus and slammed Su Chan into a crater over a thousand zhang deep, prompting the cultivators of True Martial Heaven to celebrate.

Xu Taiping struck Su Chan with a devastating punch, but Su Chan transformed his Wuji's Unrestricted Method and sword intent into a black tree whose golden leaves turned aside Xu Taiping's attacks. A cracked golden cicada appeared on the tree and began shedding its shell, leaving the spectators fearing that Su Chan would heal completely.

• Xu Taiping's punch blasted Su Chan into a deep pit, and spectators praised it as an extreme law of the Mortal Realm's martial dao.
• Su Chan rose from the pit as a towering black tree with a golden branch, and Xu Taiping's blade strike shattered against one golden leaf.
• Xiahou You explained that the tree embodied Su Chan's Wuji's Unrestricted Method, origin demon seed power, and cultivated swordsmanship, while Mu Zhixing said its tangible form strengthened its killing power.
• A golden cicada covered in cracks and seeping blood appeared on the branch, prompting Zhang Moyan to suspect it was Su Chan.
• The golden cicada began shedding its shell, and Mu Zhixing silently confirmed the fear that Su Chan could recover completely.

As Su Chan’s golden cicada began restoring his sealed cultivation by eating the Golden Fruits, Xu Taiping realized ordinary attacks could not stop him. With his strength running out, Xu Taiping chose to undergo Dao integration with Lotus Eye, accepting the equal chance of life or death.

• Zhang Moyan and Mu Zhixing reasoned that Su Chan had sealed his cultivation inside the three Golden Fruits to evade part of the Heavenly Dao’s backlash.
• The golden cicada emerged from its shell and began eating the Golden Fruits, confirming the spectators’ suspicion that it was Su Chan.
• Xu Taiping struck Su Chan’s Golden Branch but failed to break it, while Mu Zhixing warned that Xu Taiping’s Daoist arts could not overcome Su Chan’s divine ability by ordinary means.
• Xu Taiping told Lotus Eye that he wanted to undergo Dao integration, despite the risk that the process could kill him.
• Lotus Eye warned Xu Taiping that Dao integration meant sharing glory and ruin with a Yin God and offered equal chances of survival and death; Xu Taiping stood firm, and Lotus Eye agreed to take the gamble with him.

Xu Taiping chose to undergo Dao Integration with the Lotus Eye despite Fairy Lingyue’s warnings, affirming that his choices kept him true to himself. As Su Chan began recovering his strength by consuming the Golden Fruits, Xu Taiping prepared to stop him.

• Fairy Lingyue warned Xu Taiping that Dao Integration with a Yin God was dangerous and urged him to let her find another way out.
• Xu Taiping refused to waver, explaining that his choices were part of what made him remain himself.
• The golden cicada consumed the first Golden Fruit, and the Black Wood grew higher as two new branches emerged.
• Fairy Lingyue realized Su Chan had hidden his cultivation in the three Golden Fruits and urged Xu Taiping to cut down the Golden Branch after Dao Integration.
• Xu Taiping acknowledged her warning, and a five-colored halo appeared in the dark sky.

Xu Taiping manifested the Yin God Lotus Eye and began Dao Integration as the spectators and Mu Zhixing realized what he was doing. The Yin God plucked the Great Medicine born from heaven and offered it to Xu Taiping, calling him its lord.

• A second Five-Colored Halo appeared around Xu Taiping, and a strange, grasping shadow manifested behind him.
• Xiahou You identified the shadow as a Wilderness Yin God possessing Xu Taiping and declared that he was preparing for Dao Integration.
• The Five-Colored Halo became a lotus-pupiled eye, and the Yin God's shadow dragged it down from the sky.
• Mu Zhixing confirmed that Xu Taiping was undergoing Dao Integration and explained that a willing Yin God could pluck and offer the Great Medicine itself.
• The Yin God brought the Great Medicine to Xu Taiping's lips and said, "Please accept this offering, My Lord."

Xu Taiping accepted Lotus Eye’s Great Medicine and began Dao Integration, causing his Golden Core to shatter as he fell toward the lake. As his consciousness sank into the resulting black vortex, he heard his grandfather urge him to prove that people with Mortal Bones could ascend the Great Dao.

• Lotus Eye offered Xu Taiping his Great Medicine and pledged to acknowledge him as master for life after life.
• Mu Zhixing praised Xu Taiping’s plan to use Dao Integration to catch Su Chan off guard, while Zhang Moyan and Xuanzhi warned of the deadly risks.
• Xu Taiping accepted Lotus Eye’s medicine and promised they would share glory and ruin and ascend the Great Dao together.
• The medicine’s power entered Xu Taiping’s Golden Core, which shattered and became a vortex that devoured his True Essence, qi, blood, and consciousness.
• Xu Taiping fell toward the lake as his grandfather’s voice urged him to prove that people with Mortal Bones could walk the Great Dao and see the immortals’ world.

Xu Taiping recalled his grandfather’s hidden resentment at being denied the chance to cultivate, and realized his own refusal to yield came from him. His senses returned as the Great Medicine of the Lotus Eye began repairing his shattered golden core, and he vowed that this would not be the end of his cultivation.

• Xu Taiping remembered his grandfather’s dying words and saw a speck of light pull his mind out of the black vortex.
• Xu Taiping relived clear childhood memories that revealed his grandfather’s envy of cultivators and his resentment at the Heavenly Dao.
• Xu Taiping understood that his own indignation and unwillingness to yield had come from what he sensed in his grandfather.
• Xu Taiping’s divine sense and five senses returned as the Great Medicine of the Lotus Eye began stitching his shattered golden core back together.
• Xu Taiping struck the icy lake water and vowed that his cultivation would not end there.

Xu Taiping completed Dao Integration and revealed that the Lotus Eye had granted him a Divine Ability to reverse time. He began using it against Su Chan, but the power caused severe pain in his left eye.

• Xu Taiping rose from the lake with his Dao Heart intact and surged back into the sky in red armor.
• As Su Chan climbed toward the third golden fruit, Xu Taiping’s Golden Core fused completely with his Yin God.
• Xu Taiping drew his saber and formed a Blade Domain around himself and the black tree.
• Xu Taiping reversed time around Su Chan, making the golden cicada retreat and restoring the fruit it had eaten.
• Xu Taiping tried to make Su Chan spit out the second golden fruit, but his Lotus Eye suddenly erupted in piercing pain.

Xu Taiping chose to use the Lotus Eye’s remaining power to look inward and gain the strength he would possess ten years in the future. He severed Su Chan’s Golden Branch, and as Su Chan vowed to kill him with half his Ultimate Realm cultivation, Xu Taiping activated the Lotus Eye again.

• The Lotus Eye offered to use One Glance, a Thousand Years once more at the cost of sleeping for thirty years, and Xu Taiping chose to look inward.
• Xu Taiping unleashed Saber Across the Vast Sea, Slaying the True Dragon, and the Lotus Eye helped him guide the strike around Su Chan’s black sword shadows.
• Xu Taiping’s saber severed the Golden Branch on the black tree, provoking an uproar among the spectators.
• Su Chan declared that he could still slay Xu Taiping with half his Ultimate Realm cultivation.
• Xu Taiping told the Lotus Eye to look inward, and five-colored radiance enveloped him as his aura surged.

Xu Taiping used the Lotus Eye’s power of time to borrow strength from his future self while fighting Su Chan. His qi and blood and true essence surged to more than three times their former depth and purity without a change in realm, leading Yun Shiliu to suspect he was pursuing the legendary Ultimate Dao Realm.

• Xu Taiping and Su Chan exchanged saber and sword strikes, and their fierce blade intent and Sword Intent battered spectators from afar.
• Zhang Moyan and Mu Zhixing assessed Su Chan’s growing strength and concluded that Xu Taiping’s time-reversal power had limits.
• Yun Shiliu realized Xu Taiping could use the Lotus Eye to borrow strength from his future self, while Yun Ye insisted Xu Taiping would never fade into obscurity.
• Xu Taiping’s aura suddenly surged, restoring and greatly strengthening his qi and blood and true essence without raising his cultivation realm.
• Yun Shiliu suspected Xu Taiping was seeking the legendary Ultimate Dao Realm.

As Su Chan absorbed the power of the Golden Fruits, Xu Taiping discovered that the Lotus Eye’s time-reversing Divine Ability had restored two more Mad Demon Swords to his Qi Sea. Fairy Lingyue warned that Su Chan was preparing something, prompting Xu Taiping to form a bold plan.

• Yun Shiliu and Mu Yun concluded that Xu Taiping could not threaten Su Chan while Su Chan continued strengthening himself.
• Xu Taiping told Fairy Lingyue that two Mad Demon Swords had appeared in his Qi Sea, and she identified them as Demon-Sealing Swords restored by the Power of Time.
• Fairy Lingyue realized Xu Taiping had neither reached the Transformation Realm nor attained the Ultimate Dao Heaven Gazing Realm.
• Su Chan’s black sphere swelled again as flying swords remained jutting from its surface.
• Fairy Lingyue urged Xu Taiping to interrupt Su Chan, and Xu Taiping came up with a bold plan.

Xu Taiping waited for Su Chan to complete his Sword Intent, hoping to decipher and withstand Su Chan’s strongest strike before drawing the three Demon-Sealing Swords within him. As Su Chan’s attack arrived, Xu Taiping saw it as 308 Ancient Script characters and realized he had to unravel every one to break it.

• Xu Taiping told Fairy Lingyue he planned to wait for Su Chan to attack, then draw the three Demon-Sealing Swords to turn the fight around.
• Xu Taiping readied his Water-Cutting Blade and focused on using the Hidden Sword Art to decipher Su Chan’s first strike.
• Su Chan continued gathering Sword Intent inside the Black Sphere as spectators urged Xu Taiping to interrupt him, but Xu Taiping held his stance.
• Su Chan’s Sword Intent reached completion, and he sent a Black Sword attack carrying overwhelming force at Xu Taiping.
• Xu Taiping’s Divine Soul wailed as the attack appeared to him as 308 Ancient Script characters, all of which he needed to unravel.

Xu Taiping unleashed his newly created Extreme Law Demon-Slaying Crane-Listening Stance against Su Chan’s overwhelming sword strike, but his blade domain was torn apart and his attack was swallowed. Just as Monk Xuanzhi prepared to intervene, Xu Taiping’s Character Deciphering stopped Su Chan’s black sword with hundreds of sword-light characters.

• Xu Taiping used Overlord Power to raise his physique and combat strength, then opened his blade domain and unleashed the Extreme Law Demon-Slaying Crane-Listening Stance.
• Su Chan’s black sword tore apart Xu Taiping’s blade domain and swallowed the domain’s blade lights.
• Cultivators watching through the Spirit Mirror blamed Xu Taiping for letting Su Chan gather sword intent, while Monk Xuanzhi worried about Xu Taiping’s safety.
• Monk Xuanzhi took out an Armor Pellet containing Duedu Asura’s battle armor and prepared to use a secret technique to protect Xu Taiping.
• Mu Zhixing warned Monk Xuanzhi not to act, and Su Chan’s sword suddenly stopped as hundreds of Ancient Seal Script Characters formed around it.

Xu Taiping shattered Su Chan’s first Black Sword and used his Demon-Sealing Swords and Extreme Law Baxia Form to break Su Chan’s next three swords and smash his body. As Xu Taiping pressed his attack, an unseen Black Sword pierced through his chest.

• Xu Taiping broke Su Chan’s first Black Sword with a strike from the Water-Cutting Blade, then attacked him with Extreme Law Dragon-Slaying Form.
• Su Chan summoned three Black Swords to counter Xu Taiping’s thousand-zhang blade shadow.
• Xu Taiping transformed the blade shadow into a fist shadow and used Extreme Law-Ancestral Sage Fist Baxia Form to shatter all three swords.
• Xu Taiping smashed through Su Chan’s black sphere of sword qi and struck him so hard that half his body was destroyed.
• As Xu Taiping moved to punch Su Chan again, an unseen Black Sword pierced through Xu Taiping’s chest.

After the Sword Champion Assembly ended, the Nine Abysses continued attacking Xu Taiping with Su Chan’s swords, and Fairy Lingyue tried to rescue him. The Demon Mother’s Jade Decree declared a new life-or-death contest and blocked Lingyue from reaching him, leaving Huangting Dao Palace poised for war.

• The Sword Chief Ranking declared Su Chan dead and named Xu Taiping the victor, revealing that the Nine Abysses’ black swords were an assassination attempt after the assembly ended.
• Xu Taiping shattered another black sword with the Ancestral Sage Fist’s Heaven-Bearing Stance, while a second Su Chan appeared and carried away the mutilated body.
• Fairy Lingyue warned Xu Taiping that the Nine Abysses had made him their target, and he used Endless Horizon to flee toward her.
• The Demon Mother’s Jade Decree declared a second Heaven-Demon War contest between Su Chan and Xu Taiping and threatened to turn Zhenwu into a Heaven-Demon Battlefield if Xu Taiping died.
• The decree blocked Fairy Lingyue from reaching Xu Taiping, and she summoned the phantom of Huangting Dao Palace as she defied the Nine Abysses.

Xu Taiping stopped Fairy Lingyue from drawing her sword to save him, insisting he would face the Demon Mother’s forced Heaven-Demon War himself. The battle began in the Ruins of the Old Heavenly Court, where he confronted two versions of Su Chan and learned that Su Chan had touched the taboo of the Taiqing Mysterious Origin Avatar Art.

• Fairy Lingyue prepared to draw her sword against the Demon Mother’s barrier, but Yun Shiliu, the Mysterious Female True Lord, and Mu Zhixing warned that the fight would endanger the beings of True Martial Heaven.
• Xu Taiping asked Fairy Lingyue not to bear the karma for him, saying he could not keep hiding behind her and did not want to lose another member of his family.
• The Demon Mother transported Xu Taiping and Su Chan to the Ruins of the Old Heavenly Court in Outer Heaven, cutting them off from everyone outside the barrier.
• Xu Taiping faced the second Su Chan and asked whether he had cultivated the Shangqing Mysterious Origin Avatar Art.
• Su Chan confirmed that Xu Taiping knew its secret and revealed that the clone was his own body; Xu Taiping concluded that Su Chan had touched the taboo of the Taiqing Mysterious Origin Avatar Art.

Xu Taiping confronted Su Chan’s newly revealed clone and rejected Su Chan’s view that identity could survive through a name on the Great Dao. Su Chan declared that he would kill Xu Taiping to spite his master, and the fight resumed.

• Xu Taiping recognized the second Su Chan as a living avatar created through the taboo Taiqing Profound Origin Clone Technique.
• The fallen Su Chan’s body became black sand, which the second Su Chan transformed into Black Scale Armor and the sword Taotie.
• Su Chan argued that humanity had repeatedly broken taboos to gain the power to cultivate, while Xu Taiping insisted that remaining true to himself was essential to his Dao.
• Xu Taiping declared that there could only ever be one Xu Taiping, and he held fast to the memory of the boy who had sought charcoal.
• Su Chan accused his master of sending Xu Taiping to destroy his Dao heart and vowed to torture and kill him.