Recaps

Xu Taiping’s three-thousand-man formation overwhelmed the opposing army, but Xingtian’s true body broke through their attacks and turned the battle around. Though Shi Jianchen cut off Xingtian’s head, Xingtian unleashed his troops in a frenzied counterattack and again threatened Xu Taiping and the others.

• Zhu Huai and Jiang Cuicui recognized that Xu Taiping was directing forty or fifty formation units at once, giving his three thousand soldiers the combat power of six or seven thousand.
• Xingtian’s true body struck Xu Taiping, Yue Chang Kong, and Shi Jianchen with his shield and axe, repeatedly driving them back.
• Shi Jianchen asked Xu Taiping and Yue Chang Kong to hold Xingtian still while he prepared a sword strike, and their attacks exposed Xingtian’s neck.
• Shi Jianchen pierced Xingtian’s neck and severed his head, but Xingtian remained standing and roared for his troops to slay the enemy.
• Xingtian’s blood mist drove his army into a reckless charge that overwhelmed Xu Taiping’s formation, while his headless body swung its axe at Xu Taiping and the others.

Xu Taiping tried to awaken the battle intent of the skeletal heavenly soldiers and generals while Yue Chang Kong and Shi Jianchen held off Xingtian. After repeated calls, one divine general answered, and battle intent began rising from the skeletons.

• Xingtian’s overwhelming strength scattered Xu Taiping’s formation and forced him, Yue Chang Kong, and Shi Jianchen to defend against its attacks.
• Yue Chang Kong and Shi Jianchen offered to sacrifice their bodies and urged Xu Taiping to escape, but Xu Taiping asked them to hold Xingtian off while he tried to awaken the skeletons’ battle intent.
• Shi Jianchen and Yue Chang Kong attacked Xingtian as Xu Taiping used his divine sense to connect with nearly three thousand skeletal soldiers and generals, enduring immense backlash.
• Xu Taiping repeatedly asked the heavenly soldiers and generals why and for whom they fought, suffering severe injuries as his battle intent surged.
• A divine general’s skeleton declared that they fought for the Heavenly Court and the human race, releasing a crimson streak of battle intent and astonishing Jiang Cuicui.

Xu Taiping rallied the skeletal Heavenly Soldiers and Divine Generals with battle intent, turning their collapsing formation against Xingtian's forces. With Shi Jianchen and Yue Chang Kong joining him, he wounded Xingtian's headless true body, which roared that it would fight without end.

• Xu Taiping rallied the Divine Generals and Heavenly Soldiers, awakening their battle intent and strengthening their formation.
• Xu Taiping led a charge that drove the deity armored soldiers from the Heavenly Soldiers' formation and left at least a hundred of them dead.
• Xu Taiping's formation broke through Xingtian's troops, killed thousands of deity armored soldiers, and carried him to Xingtian's headless true body.
• Xu Taiping struck Xingtian with the formation's battle intent, and his clone knocked him to the ground with the Heaven-Touching Stance of the Heaven-Shaking Fist.
• Xu Taiping called Shi Jianchen and Yue Chang Kong to join the fight, and their combined attacks severed Xingtian's shield arm.
• Xu Taiping wounded Xingtian's chest with his saber as Shi Jianchen and Yue Chang Kong attacked, and Xingtian roared that he would fight without end.

Xu Taiping and Shi Jianchen struggled against Xingtian’s true body, which drew on the Deity Soldiers’ qi and blood to grow stronger. Xu Taiping wounded Xingtian with an ultimate Burning Blade Style, but its use of True Essence summoned Heavenly Punishment, and Yue Chang Kong intercepted the flaming mountain with his mutilated body.

• Xingtian absorbed the Deity Soldiers’ qi and blood, then struck Yue Chang Kong and Shi Jianchen and forced Xu Taiping’s blade attack to shatter against his axe.
• Zhu Huai explained that the soldiers’ formation and Xingtian’s true body sustained and strengthened each other, leaving Xu Taiping and Shi Jianchen unable to break the stalemate.
• Xu Taiping unleashed the Burning Blade Style at the Ultimate Realm with Thousand-Army Battle Intent, and its thunderflame dragon severely wounded Xingtian’s true body before bursting apart.
• Xu Taiping’s use of True Essence brought down Heavenly Punishment in the form of a flaming mountain.
• Yue Chang Kong charged into the falling mountain and detonated his mutilated body to destroy it, revealing that Xu Taiping’s allies had planned for him to take the punishment.

Xu Taiping and the three thousand Heavenly Soldier and Divine General skeletons destroyed Xingtian’s body, but Xingtian regenerated from a severed arm and attacked the formation. After Shi Jianchen sacrificed a true body to block Heavenly Punishment, Xu Taiping returned to the formation and prepared to command nearly eight thousand soldiers.

• Xu Taiping used two powerful saber strikes to reduce Xingtian’s ruined body to ash.
• Xingtian’s severed arm grew enormous, leaped into the military formation, and survived the attack.
• A Flame Mountain descended as the second Heavenly Punishment, and Shi Jianchen blocked it by sacrificing one true body.
• Shi Jianchen, now a Primordial Spirit, saw that Xu Taiping had returned to the formation instead of leaving the divine domain.
• Xu Taiping incorporated nearly five thousand more Heavenly Soldier Skeletons into the Cross Vajra Slaughter Formation, prompting Shi Jianchen to fear the formation would backlash.

Xu Taiping gathered nearly ten thousand Heavenly Soldier Skeletons and several hundred skeleton divine generals into his formation, determined to raise its battle intent enough to face Xingtian. As Xingtian grew stronger, Xu Taiping began his only chance to form the ranks.

• Xu Taiping told Immortal Elder Wuji he would fight with everything he had, and Wuji decided to witness the battle rather than send him out of the Divine Domain.
• Xu Taiping expanded his Divine Sense and drew nearly ten thousand Heavenly Soldier Skeletons and several hundred skeleton divine generals into his military formation.
• Immortal Elder Wuji sensed the formation’s immense military might and recalled that only Xiang Kui had once made him feel the same.
• Xingtian absorbed the qi and blood of his troops, grew to over a hundred zhang tall, and revealed that his seal had weakened further.
• Xu Taiping steadied himself, raised the Heavenly King’s Skull, and ordered the gathered troops to form ranks.

Xu Taiping completed ranks for his ten-thousand-strong Skeleton Heavenly Soldier formation and tried to draw out the battle intent of the remaining troops as Xingtian's formation gained strength. He rallied the skeletons by warning that defeat would make their families slaves to the gods, leaving their response and the clash unresolved.

• Xu Taiping's skeleton troops completed their formations and roared for his command, sending their battle intent surging against Xingtian's army.
• Xingtian's True Body fed its qi and blood into the Deity Armored Soldiers Military Formation, whose growing might pushed toward Xu Taiping's formation.
• Immortal Elder Wuji, Shi Jianchen, and Yue Chang Kong watched as the outcome depended on whether Xu Taiping could awaken the battle intent of his entire army.
• Xu Taiping used his Divine Soul Power to envelop the lingering Divine Sense of nearly seven thousand more skeleton soldiers and generals.
• Xu Taiping invoked Xingtian's assault on the Heavenly Court and asked the skeletons whether they would bow to the gods and become slaves again.

Xu Taiping roused the battle intent of more than eight thousand skeletal Heavenly Soldiers and Divine Generals, broke through Xingtian’s military formation, and knocked down his one-armed true body. As Xu Taiping’s avatar continued striking Xingtian, his true body appeared behind him with another Heaven-Touching Stance, leaving Shi Jianchen fearing Xingtian would die.

• Xu Taiping endured the soul-weeping backlash and roused nearly seven thousand more skeletal Heavenly Soldiers and Divine Generals by asking whether they accepted their kin’s enslavement and suffering.
• Xu Taiping led more than eight thousand skeletons in a charge that shattered Xingtian’s military might and sand wall, while Xingtian ordered his formation to counterattack.
• Xu Taiping slashed Xingtian’s one-armed true body with a Burning Blade Style strike infused with the skeleton army’s battle intent, sending him crashing into his formation.
• Xu Taiping’s Mysterious Origin Avatar struck Xingtian twice with the Heaven-Touching Stance, badly injuring his palm and smashing several fingers.
• Xu Taiping appeared behind Xingtian’s fallen true body and assumed the Heaven-Touching Stance, prompting Yue Chang Kong to marvel at his force and Shi Jianchen to fear Xingtian would die.

Xu Taiping kept leading the Skeletons Heavenly Soldiers against Xingtian, determined to mobilize the ten-thousand-army battle intent and contend with him. As Xingtian began regenerating and the battle turned, Gu Yu left the Dragon-Trapping Tower and joined Xu Taiping’s formation.

• Xu Taiping’s true body and clone struck Xingtian’s one-armed body, shattering it, but Xingtian formed a blood sphere and placenta to regenerate.
• Xingtian rallied his remaining Deity Soldiers, whose formation stopped the Skeletons Heavenly Soldiers’ charge and began counterattacking.
• Shi Jianchen, Yue Chang Kong, and Immortal Elder Wuji urged Xu Taiping to retreat, but he asked Immortal Elder Wuji to send his three gravely injured friends out and said he wanted to contend with Xingtian using the ten-thousand-army battle intent.
• Gu Yu rose despite his injuries, used the Jade Shatter Art, and convinced Immortal Elder Wuji to let him leave the Dragon-Trapping Tower.
• Gu Yu heard Xu Taiping command the generals to form ranks, then charged into the formation to fight beside him.

Xu Taiping used Dao Essence Power with Overlord's Breath to awaken ten thousand strands of battle intent in the Skeletons Heavenly Soldier Military Formation, enduring severe backlash each time. The battle intent failed to manifest a form, but it still shattered Xingtian's military might as the two formations clashed.

• Immortal Elder Wuji told Xu Taiping that he had helped get the others out, and Lotus Eye warned that using Dao Essence Power with Overlord's Breath would intensify the backlash.
• Xu Taiping combined Dao Essence Power with Overlord's Breath and rallied the skeletal soldiers, summoning seven thousand strands of battle intent before enduring severe pain in his Divine Soul.
• Xu Taiping shouted again, drawing out another thousand strands and bringing the battle intent total to eight thousand, while discovering the Dao Essence could support more uses.
• Xingtian charged toward Xu Taiping with nearly eight or nine thousand armored troops, and Xu Taiping summoned the remaining two thousand strands, raising the total to ten thousand despite another wave of backlash.
• Xu Taiping saw that the battle intent had not manifested a form, then led his army into a charge against Xingtian's formation and shattered its military might.
• Xingtian roared and spread his Qi and Blood Power over his formation after his military might was broken.

Xu Taiping and Gu Yu fought the enormous Xingtian True Body, but the ten thousand strands of battle intent still would not take form. Realizing he might need to control the skeletal army with his own will, Xu Taiping dropped the Heavenly King's Skull as Gu Yu fought desperately to hold Xingtian back.

• Xu Taiping used the ten thousand strands of battle intent to wound Xingtian, but Xingtian restored his body by absorbing the armored soldiers and grew to three hundred zhang tall.
• Xingtian battered Xu Taiping’s battle-intent deity phantom with his shield, axe, and newly grown pair of arms, shattering it and forcing Xu Taiping to conserve his Dao Essence Power.
• Gu Yu arrived and struck Xingtian with hundreds of blade shadows, then used the Jade Shatter Art to fight on despite being badly injured.
• Xu Taiping ordered the skeletal army to charge, but its battle intent still would not take form, prompting him to suspect he had to direct the army himself.
• Xu Taiping dropped the Heavenly King's Skull, shocking Immortal Elder Wuji inside the Dragon-Trapping Tower.

After Xu Taiping put down the Heavenly King's Skull, he sustained the skeletal army’s formation with his own battle intent and asked the soldiers to fight for him. They willingly rallied behind him, forming an Azure Dragon of battle intent as he led their charge toward Xingtian’s army.

• Xu Taiping set down the Heavenly King's Skull, and the skeletal military formation began to weaken as Xingtian’s army advanced.
• Xiahou Qingyuan realized Xu Taiping was maintaining the formation with his own battle intent, and Zhu Huai recognized that the skeletal Heavenly Soldiers had submitted to him willingly.
• Xu Taiping declared himself a mortal and asked the skeletal soldiers whether they would fight for him.
• Divine Generals Zhao Chong, Cao Lei, Zhou Yue, Kong Wei, Gao Haoran, and others pledged their support, and the skeletal Heavenly Soldiers joined them.
• The soldiers’ combined battle intent formed an enormous Azure Dragon, and Xu Taiping led the army in a charge against Xingtian’s formation.

Xu Taiping used overwhelming ten-thousand-army battle intent to destroy Xingtian and shatter the divine domain. The domain’s collapse revealed Yundaozi’s seal, which Xu Taiping still needed to undo while eliminating the remaining Xingtian divine intent.

• Xu Taiping’s skeleton heavenly soldier formation broke through Xingtian’s formation, and Xu Taiping shattered Xingtian’s axe, shield, and body with successive Heaven-Touching punches and Heavenly Wrath strikes.
• Xu Taiping’s forces annihilated all the armored soldiers, and he ordered his troops to form ranks and await the final battle.
• The divine domain shattered and collapsed after Xingtian’s defeat.
• Xiahou Qingyuan warned that Xu Taiping still had to undo Yundaozi’s seal and eradicate the remaining Xingtian divine intent.
• The collapsed domain revealed palace ruins and a five-colored crystal that Chu Xiaoxiao identified as Yundaozi’s seal.

Xu Taiping broke Yundaozi's seal in the crystal, releasing Xingtian's divine intent at the moment Yundaozi's weakening power took effect. With the ten-thousand-strong Skeleton Army, Xu Taiping destroyed the phantom and asked the Ranking Spirit to end the viewing.

• Xu Taiping sent the unconscious Gu Yu into the Dragon-Trapping Tower and approached the crystal sealing Yundaozi and the Golden Chalice.
• Immortal Elder Wuji advised Xu Taiping to defeat Xingtian's divine intent, then secretly keep the Battle Merit Ledger and Golden Chalice.
• Xu Taiping injected his true essence into the crystal, causing it to crack and explode, and the Golden Chalice released Xingtian's enormous phantom.
• Yundaozi's divine intent suppressed Xingtian's phantom with a golden palm and rune chains.
• Xu Taiping led the Skeleton Army in a formation charge and used Burning Blade to unleash the Azure Dragon's Thunderflame Dragon Breath, destroying Xingtian's phantom.
• Xu Taiping watched the Golden Chalice fall and asked the Ranking Spirit to end the viewing.

After the viewing ended, Xu Taiping and Immortal Elder Wuji secured the ruins and approached Yundaozi’s remains to investigate his legacy. The Life-and-Death Seal reacted to a treasure inside Yundaozi’s ring, leading them to suspect it was another fragment of the Heaven-Flipping Seal.

• The spectators worried that the viewing had ended before they could see whether Xu Taiping destroyed the Xingtian Divine Intent, while his companions believed he had prevailed.
• Xu Taiping tested the Golden Chalice with thunderflame, and Immortal Elder Wuji identified it as primordial chaos metal essence.
• Immortal Elder Wuji used three formation flags to form a Golden Summit Cloud-Covering Formation that blocked and burned away probing divine senses.
• Xu Taiping and Immortal Elder Wuji went to inspect Yundaozi’s remains, where they found a ring sealed by the Heaven-Mending Art.
• Xu Taiping’s Life-and-Death Seal flew from his Iron Gourd and hovered over Yundaozi, prompting Immortal Elder Wuji to suspect the ring contained another fragment of the Heaven-Flipping Seal.

Xu Taiping removed Yundaozi’s ring and discovered that it held a fragment of the Heaven-Flipping Seal, which the Life-and-Death Seal trapped. Immortal Elder Wuji explained that Xu Taiping’s own fragment was more complete and revealed that a sworn enemy had once taken his fragment.

• Xu Taiping broke the Heaven-Replenishing Book seal on Yundaozi’s ring, put it on, and sent his divine sense inside.
• A dark mass burst out of the ring and shattered Xu Taiping’s divine sense before Immortal Elder Wuji briefly seized it with a palm of true essence.
• The Life-and-Death Seal intercepted the dark mass, revealing a fragment of the Heaven-Flipping Seal.
• The Life-and-Death Seal trapped the fragment in a cage of golden light after it tried to escape.
• Immortal Elder Wuji said Heaven-Flipping Seal fragments attracted and devoured one another, and that Xu Taiping’s fragment was more complete.
• Immortal Elder Wuji revealed that his sworn enemy had once devoured a fragment of the Heaven-Flipping Seal that he had found.

Xu Taiping learned that his Life-and-Death Seal was a disguised fragment of the Heaven-Flipping Seal and watched it absorb another fragment, completing the Mountain character. The seal entered a long slumber, while Immortal Elder Wuji warned Xu Taiping to keep its identity secret and urged him to inspect Yundaozi's ring.

• Immortal Elder Wuji explained that Heaven-Flipping Seal fragments disguised themselves to avoid being devoured and warned that powerful Upper Realm beings would seize or destroy anyone whose fragment was exposed.
• The Life-and-Death Seal dragged in the other fragment and absorbed it, making the Mountain character complete alongside Water.
• Immortal Elder Wuji explained that completing two of the four characters meant Xu Taiping had gathered half the fragments of the Heaven-Flipping Seal.
• The Life-and-Death Seal's artifact spirit announced it would slumber and later teach Xu Taiping to refine it into his Natal Treasure, and Xu Taiping put it away in the Iron Gourd.
• Immortal Elder Wuji told Xu Taiping to keep the Heaven-Flipping Seal secret, promised to share two leads about other fragment holders, and urged him to inspect Yundaozi's ring.

Xu Taiping and Immortal Elder Wuji activated Yundaozi’s Moonlight Stone and watched a recording that explained its safeguards and revealed where Yundaozi had stored the Heaven-Replenishing Book’s inheritance. The recording ended with instructions for Xu Taiping to awaken the divine intent inside a tortoise shell.

• Xu Taiping showed Immortal Elder Wuji the Moonlight Stone, and Wuji explained that it could preserve images for far longer than an ordinary Moonshadow Stone.
• Xu Taiping set up the Dragon-Trapping Tower, and he and Immortal Elder Wuji entered it to activate the Moonlight Stone.
• Yundaozi’s recording revealed that only the person whose true essence had activated the Moonshadow Stone in the Bronze Casket could view the images and safely claim his inheritance.
• Yundaozi showed a tortoise shell stored in the ring and said it contained the divine intent holding the Heaven-Replenishing Book’s inheritance.
• Yundaozi instructed Xu Taiping to inject divine essence into the tortoise shell to awaken the divine intent, though successfully inheriting the art would depend on his fortune.

Xu Taiping learned about Yundaozi’s inheritances and treasures, including the Heaven-Replenishing Book and a fragment of the Heaven-Flipping Seal. When Yundaozi revealed a batch of eight hundred Supreme-Grade Soulfire Stones, Immortal Elder Wuji realized they might save both himself and Sister Lingyue.

• Yundaozi explained that inheriting the Heaven-Replenishing Book could make Xu Taiping the Eight Views Dao Palace’s First Seat Attendant and grant him access to its resources.
• Yundaozi introduced the Celestial Person Finger and One-Breath Life-and-Death Art, and Xu Taiping and Immortal Elder Wuji reflected on how Yundaozi had sacrificed his chance to survive for Shangqing.
• Yundaozi revealed a fragment of the Heaven-Flipping Seal and warned Xu Taiping not to show it to others.
• Yundaozi described his weapons and other treasures, then produced a Supreme-Grade Soulfire Stone and revealed that he had found eight hundred of them.
• Immortal Elder Wuji joyfully told Xu Taiping that the Soulfire Stones could save both Sister Lingyue and him.

Xu Taiping learned that Immortal Elder Wuji and Moon Candle Heavenly Lord planned to explore a dangerous passage in search of Taiqing Paradise, then gave Wuji the Supreme-Grade Soulfire Stones he had brought. Yundaozi revealed a damaged cultivation technique fragment from the Taiyi Sect, identifying it as the Shangqing Mysterious Origin Avatar Art.

• Immortal Elder Wuji admitted that the Blood Skeleton Head would let them enter the passage, but they needed many Soulfire Stones to survive there and were uncertain whether it led to Taiqing Paradise.
• Wuji said Xu Taiping’s eight hundred Supreme-Grade Soulfire Stones raised the exploration’s chances of success to at least sixty percent.
• Xu Taiping offered Wuji the whole batch, but Wuji kept most of the stones and returned twenty for Xu Taiping to save for later cultivation and Blade Ghost’s needs.
• Wuji explained that Yundaozi’s lower-ranked Immortal Weapons could replenish Xu Taiping’s Spiritual Power or be smelted into materials for forging weapons.
• Yundaozi showed Xu Taiping a damaged cultivation technique fragment from a Taiyi Sect disciple and named it the ancient Shangqing Mysterious Origin Avatar Art.

Xu Taiping discovered that Yundaozi had left behind an incomplete original copy of the Shangqing Mysterious Origin Avatar Art, which might address the flaw in his own cultivation. After hearing Yundaozi’s final requests and learning that reviving him would require the Heaven-Flipping Seal, Xu Taiping prepared to leave the Southern Heavenly Gate Ruins as Immortal Elder Wuji offered to teach him how to resolve his five remaining Soul Seals.

• Xu Taiping recognized the bamboo slips as an incomplete original volume of the Shangqing Mysterious Origin Avatar Art and discussed whether it could let his Origin Beginning Clone coexist with his true body.
• Xu Taiping and Immortal Elder Wuji listened as Yundaozi apologized for his depleted treasures, asked Xu Taiping to help the Eight Views Dao Palace if calamity struck, and mentioned a sealed recording on the Moonlight Stone.
• Xu Taiping asked whether Yundaozi could be saved, and Immortal Elder Wuji said the Heaven-Flipping Seal might gather his destroyed divine soul if all its fragments were restored.
• Immortal Elder Wuji told Xu Taiping they needed to leave the Southern Heavenly Gate Ruins soon, then offered to teach him a method to resolve his five remaining Soul Seals.

Immortal Elder Wuji gave Xu Taiping a Divine Soul Mark containing a possible way to resolve his Eight Soul Seals, then explained the requirements for cultivating the Dao Integration Realm to Great Perfection. The lesson left Xu Taiping realizing that a Great Perfection cultivator would wield exceptional power.

• Immortal Elder Wuji explained that he and Moon Candle Heavenly Lord had devised a possible way to use Xu Taiping's Nine Cauldrons Physique to resolve his Soul Seals.
• Xu Taiping accepted the Divine Soul Mark and promised not to waste the efforts Immortal Elder Wuji and Sister Lingyue had made for him.
• Immortal Elder Wuji began teaching Xu Taiping about the Dao Integration Realm, outlining its Life-Bound, Origin Opening, and Heavenly Communion stages.
• Immortal Elder Wuji explained that reaching Great Perfection required five Life-Bound Divine Weapons with specific abilities and three Life-Bound Divine Abilities of thunder, hurricane, and flame.
• Xu Taiping remarked that a cultivator with those weapons and abilities would have far greater killing power than others at the same stage.

Immortal Elder Wuji explained Xu Taiping's path through the Dao Integration Realm and accepted a message for the Moon Candle Heavenly Lord. Half a month later, he returned to Fairy Lingyue with the Heavenly King's Skull and news that Xu Taiping was safe.

• Immortal Elder Wuji explained that Xu Taiping could use Origin Beginning Clones to reach Great Perfection of the Origin Opening Realm if he obtained the complete Taiqing Clone Art.
• Immortal Elder Wuji relayed the Moon Candle Heavenly Lord's advice to push body and divine soul to their limits through combat on the Heaven-Demon Battlefield.
• Immortal Elder Wuji identified Void Insight as the realm above Dao Integration, refused to discuss anything higher, and offered to carry Xu Taiping's message to the Moon Candle Heavenly Lord.
• Immortal Elder Wuji returned to the Outer Heaven Battlefield Ruins half a month later and gave Fairy Lingyue the Heavenly King's Skull needed to explore the passage.
• Immortal Elder Wuji delivered Xu Taiping's Moonshadow Stone and told Fairy Lingyue how Xu Taiping and his companions had rescued him from Dumu Palace.
• Fairy Lingyue blocked an approaching squad of Heavenly Soldier Skeletons with a flying sword and expressed relief that Xu Taiping was safe.

Fairy Lingyue received Xu Taiping’s message, learned he was safe and had reached the Dao Integration Realm, and resolved to press on through Taiqing Paradise with Immortal Elder Wuji. Half a month later, the Dragon-Trapping Tower began to shake as Xu Taiping emerged from seclusion after working to inherit the Heaven-Replenishing Book and remove his Soul Seals.

• Immortal Elder Wuji told Fairy Lingyue that Xu Taiping had reached the Dao Integration Realm and had received guidance on removing his remaining Soul Seals.
• Fairy Lingyue watched Xu Taiping’s Moonshadow Stone message, in which he promised they would meet again and urged her to preserve even a wisp of her soul if danger came.
• Fairy Lingyue and Immortal Elder Wuji fought through the passage into Taiqing Paradise, where pale hands reached from the darkness and a voice warned trespassers they would fall into purgatory.
• Half a month later, Gu Yu worried that Xu Taiping had remained inside the Dragon-Trapping Tower for nearly a month, while Dongfang Yuejian said his seclusion was normal.
• The Dragon-Trapping Tower began to tremble, and Dongfang Yuejian and Xuanzhi anticipated Xu Taiping’s return.

Xu Taiping emerged from seclusion after a vision of Fairy Lingyue and Immortal Elder Wuji falling into a dark abyss, then discovered that his soul seals had become five sword embryos. He tested his increased qi-blood true essence and began drawing his Demon-Sealing Swords to measure its power.

• Xu Taiping woke from seclusion after seeing Fairy Lingyue and Immortal Elder Wuji fall into a dark abyss, and he resolved to focus on strengthening his cultivation.
• Xu Taiping confirmed that his five soul seals had become sword embryos inside his Nine Cauldrons Physique, where they devoured a wisp of Dao essence power released from Xingtian's divine intent.
• Xu Taiping realized the sword embryos would take three to five months to forge and decided he could stop maintaining the Ultimate Realm Dragon Whale Physique.
• Xu Taiping circulated all his available true essence, qi, and blood, unleashing an aura powerful enough to shake the Dragon-Trapping Tower.
• Xu Taiping drew Black Claw and doubled his aura's strength, then grasped Chengying to test whether drawing another sword would increase it further.