Recaps

Lin Qingnu used his defensive Spring Breeze Divine Intent to trap Su Chan and wear down his strength, despite the risk of damaging his cultivation. Su Chan accused him of lacking the courage to challenge him, while the onlookers realized Lin Qingnu might be weakening Su Chan for someone else.

• Lin Qingnu repeatedly restored his Sword Qi tornado with Spring Breeze Divine Intent, but the backlash weakened his aura and threatened to make him fall in realm.
• Cui Tiegu revealed that Lin Qingnu had comprehended both an offensive and a defensive divine intent, though he could use only one at a time.
• Su Chan's night-blooming cereus phantom blossomed and withered during his assault, and his aura weakened noticeably.
• Yun Ye wondered whether Lin Qingnu had chosen to wear down Su Chan for the other contenders rather than try to win the Sword Inquiry himself.
• Cui Tiegu noted that Lin Qingnu had wagered on claiming the Sword Champion's seat, making his apparent strategy seem inexplicable.
• Su Chan accused Lin Qingnu of abandoning the courage he had shown when resisting the Taihao Sect and refusing to compromise.

Lin Qingnu broke free of Lin Qinggu’s influence by choosing to fight Su Chan according to his own wishes, but his effort to hold Su Chan back exhausted him. Cui Tiegu intervened to save Lin Qingnu and invoked Zhenwu sword intent, unleashing a force that engulfed Heavenly Pillar Peak.

• Lin Qingnu told Su Chan that fighting to help Zhenwu would sever his karma with Lin Qinggu, then used Spring Breeze Divine Intent to repair the sword qi tornado.
• Su Chan repeatedly tore holes in the tornado, forcing Lin Qingnu to spend his vitality sealing them until his cultivation fell two realms and he dropped from the Sword Platform.
• Cui Tiegu entered the fight, caught Lin Qingnu, and hurled him toward Xu Taiping and the others as Su Chan attacked.
• Cui Tiegu pledged to sever his path to immortality and asked the True Martial Great Emperor for Zhenwu sword intent.
• Cui Tiegu’s Sword Qi Barrier knocked Su Chan away, and his surging sword intent spread across Heavenly Pillar Peak, making many cultivators feel compelled to kneel.

Cui Tiegu used the divine intent within his flying sword Zhen Gang to resist Su Chan, then borrowed the True Martial Great Emperor’s Zhenwu Sword Intent. The borrowed intent spread across more than a thousand li, leaving Cui Tiegu’s sword intent powerful enough to match Su Chan’s as the battle continued.

• Cui Tiegu told A Meng that he understood the True Martial Great Emperor’s intention, then used Zhen Gang’s divine intent to block Su Chan’s Taotie sword strike.
• A Meng explained that Zhen Gang had nurtured the divine intent “One man guards the pass, ten thousand cannot break through” on the Heaven-Demon Battlefield.
• Su Chan’s Taotie sword intent began swallowing Zhen Gang’s divine intent, prompting the onlookers to wonder why Cui Tiegu had used it despite knowing the danger.
• Cui Tiegu said he would save his contest with A Meng for the next Sword Champion Assembly, then released the Zhenwu Sword Intent he had borrowed.
• The Zhenwu Sword Intent spread across more than a thousand li, creating immense pressure that overwhelmed weaker cultivators and made Cui Tiegu’s sword intent a match for Su Chan’s.

Cui Tiegu’s Zhenwu Sword Intent failed to defeat Su Chan, who survived the attack and damaged the Sword Chief Ranking’s protective barrier before Cui conceded. The Sword Chief Ranking chose A Meng to face Su Chan next, while Cui revealed that the ranking had selected Xu Taiping and Yun Ye as candidates to inherit the True Martial Great Emperor’s legacy.

• Cui Tiegu’s sword strike made two of Su Chan’s flowers wither, but Su Chan transformed into his Demon God body and destroyed Cui’s sword light without losing strength.
• Cui Tiegu conceded, but Su Chan attacked him anyway, cutting a sword mark into the Sword Chief Ranking’s golden barrier before it stopped the strike.
• Cui Tiegu told A Meng to take his turn, and the Sword Chief Ranking named A Meng of the Pure Yang Sword Sect as the next challenger.
• A Meng explained that the Sword Inquiry sought a worthy sword for True Martial Heaven and the Shangqing Realm, while Cui Tiegu reminded Xu Taiping and Yun Ye that the assembly existed to find a successor to the True Martial Great Emperor.
• Cui Tiegu revealed that the Sword Chief Ranking had chosen Xu Taiping and Yun Ye, and that after Su Chan’s final flower bloomed, they would face its final test for the legacy.

The Sword Inquiry was revealed to be a struggle over the True Martial Great Emperor’s inheritance as well as a test to save True Martial Heaven. Yun Shiliu arrived to support Yun Ye, while Xu Taiping reflected on why he and A Meng had come to face Su Chan; A Meng then stepped onto the Sword Platform to challenge her.

• Cui Tiegu revealed that the Sword Chief Ranking intended to use the ten Demon Emperors of the Nine Abysses to choose an heir to the True Martial Great Emperor’s true inheritance.
• Yun Shiliu broke through the Nine Prefectures’ barrier and arrived at the Sword Inquiry, where Yun Ye recognized her as his aunt and learned she would help him claim the inheritance.
• Yun Shiliu assured Liu Chuxuan and the Nine Prefectures’ elders that she had come to help True Martial Heaven win the Heaven-Demon War.
• Cui Tiegu warned Xu Taiping that the Azure Profound Sect was too weak to contend for the inheritance, but Xu Taiping said he cared more about facing Su Chan than claiming it.
• Xu Taiping said A Meng challenged Su Chan because of who Su Chan was, and that the same was true of his own wish to fight her.
• A Meng leaped onto the Sword Platform and pointed his sword at Su Chan.

A Meng challenged Su Chan at the Sword Champion Assembly, determined to prove himself Su Chan’s opponent through the Sword Inquiry. Su Chan took the upper hand in their opening exchange, then pressed his attack as A Meng recovered in midair.

• A Meng demanded that the spectators focus on the Sword Inquiry and summoned pure Sword Qi around himself.
• A Meng asked Su Chan whether he had ever regarded him as an opponent, and Su Chan replied that they could be friends or enemies but never equals.
• A Meng vowed to make Su Chan take back his words and launched a diving sword strike from above the Sword Platform.
• Su Chan shattered A Meng’s Sword Intent with a slash backed by a Sword Qi taotie, which devoured part of A Meng’s hawk-shaped Sword Qi.
• A Meng’s Sword Qi hawk re-formed and caught him as Su Chan pursued him with another powerful slash.

Su Chan overwhelmed A Meng and appeared poised to kill him, but A Meng revealed a hidden technique he had saved specifically for Su Chan. A vast Sword Domain spread across Heavenly Pillar Peak as A Meng announced his one sword, “A Common Man’s Fury.”

• Su Chan shattered A Meng’s Sword Intent, wounded him, and broke the Immortal Weapon in his hand.
• Xu Taiping and Cui Tiegu discussed how A Meng’s reliance on swordsmanship had left him vulnerable, and Xu Taiping realized A Meng had long known of that weakness.
• Su Chan drove A Meng into the Sword Platform and prepared a finishing blow as spectators expected A Meng’s defeat.
• A Meng released a milky-white light, forcing Su Chan to retreat across the Sword Platform.
• A Meng unleashed a vast Sword Domain filled with broken swords and declared that its sole sword was “A Common Man’s Fury.”

A Meng trapped Su Chan within his Common Man Sword Domain and rendered Su Chan’s attacks ineffective. As Su Chan gathered power for a stronger attack, Xu Taiping gained a new insight into sword domain power.

• A Meng’s battlefield Sword Domain drew Xu Taiping and the onlookers into the fight, where Su Chan raised a single-plank bridge and attacked A Meng with sword light.
• A Meng blocked Su Chan’s attacks with a gravestone inscribed “The grave of A Meng, a common man.”
• A Meng raised a second gravestone bearing the words “The grave of Su Chan, traitor to Zhenwu,” and explained that his methods could not harm him until he unleashed his Common Man’s Fury.
• Xu Taiping sensed a new understanding of sword domain power, while Cui Tiegu wondered if A Meng’s domain had prompted an imminent breakthrough.
• A Meng’s growing domain closed Su Chan’s chasm, and Su Chan stopped attacking and gathered sword intent into a towering Taotie phantom and Sword Shadow.

Xu Taiping sensed the life and Sword Intent behind A Meng’s strike, triggering a powerful Divine Intent Resonance in his Divine Soul. A Meng defeated Su Chan, but as he awaited his end, he saw Xu Taiping shining with a sword radiance that reached the heavens.

• Cui Tiegu urged Xu Taiping to use his mind to sense A Meng’s Sword Intent, and Xu Taiping grasped the experiences behind it.
• Xu Taiping’s Sword Intent grew similar to A Meng’s, and his Divine Soul began producing a resonance that stunned Cui Tiegu.
• Cui Tiegu suspected Xu Taiping possessed the legendary Emptiness Daoheart, but Undying Night Soul threatened to destroy him if he acted on wicked thoughts.
• A Meng’s white sword light overwhelmed Su Chan’s black sword light, and his strike destroyed the final night-blooming cereus flower on Su Chan.
• As A Meng’s body crumbled and he awaited Liberation by Violence, Xu Taiping’s dazzling sword radiance caught his attention.

A Meng’s sword strike surpassed Su Chan’s and perfected his sword heart, but seeing Xu Taiping comprehend and surpass his Sword Intent shook his conviction. Xu Taiping answered A Meng’s doubts by arguing that the pursuit of extreme law mattered because each generation passed its knowledge on, leaving Xu Taiping with an extreme law sword strike shaped by the sacrifices of his predecessors.

• A Meng won his contest of extreme law against Su Chan, perfecting his sword heart even as Liberation by Violence threatened to cast him into the mortal world.
• A Meng saw Xu Taiping wield a superior extreme law Sword Intent and suspected the Great Emperor had arranged his challenge to let Xu Taiping witness the strike.
• Su Chan urged A Meng to abandon the Heavenly Dao’s path and choose another great path, nearly extinguishing his resolve.
• A Meng asked Xu Taiping whether his strike deserved to be called extreme law, and Xu Taiping said it did not because no law could have an ultimate limit while time continued.
• Xu Taiping told A Meng that generations of humans had advanced by pursuing and passing on their arts, and that this inheritance gave meaning to their pursuit of extreme law.

Xu Taiping helped A Meng restore his Dao Heart, and A Meng revealed that he was the Half-Immortal Liu Sui before returning to the Kunlun Ruins. Though A Meng urged Xu Taiping to withdraw, Xu Taiping refused, and the Sword Chief Ranking named Yun Ye as Zhenwu’s next challenger.

• Xu Taiping’s words helped A Meng complete his Dao Heart, and A Meng thanked him for reforging it.
• A Meng revealed that he was Liu Sui, a Half-Immortal who had spent six hundred years in Shangqing as A Meng, and promised to aid Zhenwu cultivators and fight beside them if the Heaven-Demon Battlefield reopened.
• A Meng warned Xu Taiping that he could not defeat Su Chan and offered to take him to the Kunlun Ruins, but Xu Taiping refused to retreat from the Sword Inquiry.
• Fairy Lingyue asked Xu Taiping whether A Meng had spoken to him privately, and Xu Taiping confirmed it without sharing details.
• While Xu Taiping contemplated the sword insights he had gained, the Sword Chief Ranking announced Yun Ye of the Three Sovereigns Dao Palace as Zhenwu’s next challenger.

Yun Ye entered the Sword Inquiry to face Su Chan, backed by the Three Sovereigns Dao Palace’s Heavenly Dao Edict and the hopes of True Martial Heaven. Xu Taiping insisted he would fight if Yun Ye fell, and the chapter ended as Yun Ye launched his first attack on Su Chan.

• Yun Shiliu explained that the Heavenly Dao Edict’s power would weaken with time and warned Yun Ye not to underestimate Su Chan.
• Yun Ye vowed to slay Su Chan and walked onto the Sword Platform as spectators placed their hopes in him.
• Liang Zhu asked whether Xu Taiping could still fight if Yun Ye lost, but Zhao Qian urged her not to risk another Azure Profound Sect disciple.
• Xu Taiping told Zhao Qian he would face Su Chan if Yun Ye failed, and Zhao Qian promised the Azure Profound Sect would remain a refuge for him.
• Yun Ye and Su Chan revealed peak Heaven Questioning Realm auras, and Yun Ye drew his sword and charged at Su Chan.

Yun Ye challenged Su Chan on the Sword Platform, using the true intent “As It Was” and the Extreme Law sword technique Stars Fall and Clouds Scatter to force Su Chan to reveal his origin demon seed power. The Three Sovereigns Dao Palace then used the Three Sovereigns Seal to forbid Nine Abyss Demon Cultivators from using that power, and Su Chan dismissed the new rule as a waste of the Heavenly Dao Edict.

• Yun Ye used “As It Was” to restore his sword strike and overcome Su Chan’s Sword Domain, then attacked again with a sword technique that transformed his light into a hand.
• Su Chan turned into a colossal Taotie and swallowed Yun Ye’s sword-light hand, but Yun Ye unleashed Extreme Law: Stars Fall and Clouds Scatter from within its mouth.
• Su Chan summoned a black tree through Taotie and his origin demon seed power, blocking Yun Ye’s falling-star swords and remaining unharmed.
• The Three Sovereigns Seal declared that Nine Abyss Demon Cultivators could not use origin demon seed power during the Sword Inquiry, making Su Chan’s black tree vanish.
• Yun Ye invited Su Chan to settle the contest with their swords, and Su Chan replied that banning his origin demon seed power had wasted the Heavenly Dao Edict.

Yun Ye challenged Su Chan to prove himself the strongest young Sword Cultivator and unleashed the Extreme Law, Three Powers Immortal-Slaying Sword. The six blazing swords descended on Su Chan, leaving the duel’s outcome unresolved.

• Yun Ye told Su Chan that he had searched for the Sword Cultivator from his dreams for over fifty years, but that surpassing Su Chan mattered more than identifying him.
• Su Chan declared himself the foremost Sword Cultivator of the younger generation, and Yun Ye vowed to take that title from him with his next strike.
• Yun Ye drove Su Chan toward Taiyue Mountain and attacked him with swords formed from its rocks, plants, and trees, while Su Chan countered with his Taotie Sword Qi.
• Yun Ye used Yin God's power to absorb Su Chan's Sword Qi taotie and create golden hands that trapped Su Chan and drew six mountain peaks into enormous swords.
• Yun Ye invoked the Extreme Law, Three Powers Immortal-Slaying Sword, transforming the six mountain-peak swords into blazing steel blades that fell toward Su Chan.

Su Chan overcame Yun Ye’s Extreme Law Three Talents Immortal-Slaying Sword with his Taotie transformation and unleashed Sword Returns to the Great Void. The Three Sovereigns Seal saved Yun Ye from death, and the Sword Chief Ranking called Xu Taiping to challenge Su Chan next.

• Yun Ye’s sword strikes shattered Su Chan’s Taotie phantom, and the spectators expected Su Chan to lose.
• Su Chan transformed into an armored Taotie form and blocked Yun Ye’s first five swords with a black disc-shaped halo.
• Su Chan shattered the five embedded swords, declared his Dao superior, and formed a black sword called Sword Returns to the Great Void.
• Yun Ye’s final sword was ground away, and Su Chan’s black sword engulfed Yun Ye, but the Three Sovereigns Seal rescued Yun Ye and cast him from the Sword Platform.
• Su Chan turned toward Xu Taiping, and the Sword Chief Ranking named Xu Taiping as Zhenwu Qingxuan’s next sword challenger.

After Yun Ye lost to Su Chan, cultivators feared that True Martial Heaven would fall in the coming Heaven-Demon War. Xu Taiping ignored warnings to avoid fighting Su Chan and stepped onto the Sword Platform to challenge him.

• Yun Ye lost to Su Chan, and a cultivator from Mysterious Wasteland Heaven urged True Martial Heaven's cultivators to seek shelter before the Heaven-Demon Battlefield opened.
• With the crowd convinced no one could defeat Su Chan, Xu Taiping became the least favored contender in the Sword Inquiry.
• Cui Tiegu warned Xu Taiping that Su Chan's swordsmanship could badly injure him and that he should not risk the fight.
• Xu Taiping told Cui Tiegu that True Martial Heaven was his homeland, prompting Cui Tiegu to recall sword cultivators who had gone to the Zhenwu Battlefield to defend theirs.
• Xu Taiping landed on the Sword Platform and challenged the Qingxuan Traitor, Su Chan, to a Sword Inquiry.

As Xu Taiping challenged Su Chan to a Sword Inquiry, Yun Ye revealed that Xu Taiping—not Rusty Lion—had truly reached the top of the Mysterious Wasteland Tower. Yun Shiliu’s sealed memories began returning, leaving her to witness Xu Taiping’s forgotten deeds.

• A Southern Mountain Palace elder told Yun Shiliu that Su Chan’s Sword Qi was consuming Yun Ye’s life force and that three Sea House Pills could not cure him.
• Yun Shiliu agreed to let the elder use Crane’s Return Needles to place Yun Ye in a state of feigned death, but Yun Ye woke and begged to keep watching the match.
• Yun Ye told Yun Shiliu that the Sword Cultivator who reached the top of the Mysterious Wasteland Tower was Xu Taiping, not Rusty Lion.
• After Xu Taiping challenged Su Chan, Yun Ye confirmed his claim while Elder Su used silver needles to help him keep breathing.
• A strange wind brought Yun Shiliu’s sealed memories back, and she saw Xu Taiping’s past deeds, including slaying Old Smoky Ghost and reaching the Heavenly Gate.

Xu Taiping challenged Su Chan to a sword inquiry and rejected Su Chan’s claim that outside powers had manipulated them both. He declared that he fought for the Azure Profound Sect, his fallen fellow disciples, and their master Lü Daoxuan, and the chapter ended with Su Chan insisting that he was Lü Daoxuan’s strongest disciple.

• Yun Shiliu recognized Xu Taiping as the person the Old Palace Master had expected to share the Three Sovereigns Seal’s Heavenly Dao fortune with Yun Ye, and urged Yun Ye to watch the sword inquiry.
• Su Chan warned Xu Taiping that unseen powers had lured him with fortune and would discard him after using him.
• Xu Taiping accused Su Chan of betraying Zhenwu and Qingxuan out of fear, and dismissed his explanation as mad ravings.
• Xu Taiping said he challenged Su Chan over his repeated evils against Qingxuan and his attempt to doom True Martial Heaven.
• Xu Taiping vowed to prove that Lü Daoxuan’s teachings could produce a disciple who defeated Su Chan, and Su Chan answered that he would always be Lü Daoxuan’s strongest disciple.

Xu Taiping faced Su Chan in a sword inquiry, while Zhao Qian and Lü Daoxuan agreed that the Azure Profound Sect would join Xu Taiping in a gamble against the Netherdark Demon Grotto if he won. Xu Taiping unleashed Black Claw and gathered overwhelming blade force, ending the chapter poised to draw his Water-Cutting Blade.

• Zhao Qian asked Lü Daoxuan to stop Xu Taiping, but Lü said he could not interfere with a true sword cultivator’s decision to draw his sword.
• Lü promised to join Zhao Qian’s plan to march against the Netherdark Demon Grotto if Xu Taiping won, and Zhao Qian committed the Azure Profound Sect to the gamble.
• Su Chan attacked Xu Taiping with Taotie sword qi, and Xu Taiping’s Mysterious Origin Avatar used the Ancestral Sage Fist to hold it back.
• Xu Taiping lifted the eighth soul seal’s suppression and unleashed a blade qi thunderclap, but Su Chan reshaped his scattered sword qi into black drizzle and bats.
• Xu Taiping drank Hidden Immortal Wine, summoned another Mysterious Origin Avatar, and had it draw Black Claw, greatly strengthening his blade qi.
• Xu Taiping told Su Chan this was his sincerity as immense blade force gathered around the sheathed Water-Cutting Blade.

Xu Taiping’s blade force initially failed to overcome Su Chan’s sword intent, leaving him trapped within a shrinking ring of opposing energies. He summoned a towering divine dharma aspect, and his blade force surged back, prompting Mu Zhixing to identify it as the Heavenly Wrath Four Symbols Art.

• Xu Taiping’s Bull Demon Phantom shattered Su Chan’s sword qi Taotie, and his blade force spread across the Sword Platform toward Su Chan.
• Su Chan rose on Taotie and used his chaotic sword intent to push back Xu Taiping’s blade force, shrinking its reach around him.
• Mu Yun and Mu Zhixing judged Xu Taiping’s attempt to contest Su Chan’s sword intent unwise, while the watching cultivators expected him to lose.
• A hundred-zhang divine dharma aspect appeared behind Xu Taiping and caused his blade force to expand dramatically.
• Mu Zhixing recognized Xu Taiping’s divine dharma aspect as possibly belonging to the Heavenly Wrath Four Symbols Art.

Xu Taiping used the Heavenly Wrath Four Symbols Art’s power of teaching the Dao to break through Su Chan’s sword intent and overwhelm him with blade force. Su Chan counterattacked with the Demon God Weapon Taotie, and Xu Taiping drew the Water-Cutting Blade to meet his strike with the long-lost Life-Taking Blade technique.

• Mu Zhixing explained that the Heavenly Wrath Four Symbols Art could use the power of teaching the Dao to strengthen Xu Taiping’s blade force.
• Xu Taiping’s divine being dharma aspect pressed a hand against his back, helping his blade force break through Su Chan’s sword intent.
• Su Chan transformed the Demon God Weapon Taotie into a giant black sword and slashed at Xu Taiping, shattering his Bull Demon Phantom and Mysterious Origin Avatar.
• Xu Taiping gathered blade force behind a pillar of blade qi thunderclap, then drew the Water-Cutting Blade and struck at Taotie.
• Mu Zhixing recognized Xu Taiping’s strike as the long-lost Life-Taking Blade technique.

Xu Taiping used the Life-Taking Blade’s Deity-Sealing Form, but Su Chan broke the strike with his chaos sword light. Su Chan then attacked with Bury Heaven, Burn Earth, and Xu Taiping blocked the barrage with Returning Blade to Sheath Form.

• Xu Taiping invoked the Life-Taking Blade’s Deity-Sealing Form and trapped Su Chan beneath a massive golden hand formed from Blade Gang.
• Su Chan’s Taotie phantom swallowed the Blade Gang and sent chaos sword light through the golden hand, breaking Xu Taiping’s strike.
• Xu Taiping realized that drawing the Demon-Sealing Sword freed his techniques from the Soul Seal’s restraints for a short time.
• Su Chan declared Xu Taiping would not get another chance to strike and unleashed Bury Heaven, Burn Earth.
• Xu Taiping sheathed his saber and used Returning Blade to Sheath Form to block Su Chan’s dense black sword lights.

Xu Taiping revealed that he had cultivated the Life-Taking Blade's Returning Blade to Sheath Form to great completion and defended against Su Chan's Taotie Sword Qi. He then transformed and unleashed the Ultimate Realm Life-Taking Blade Crossing the Gods Style, splitting Su Chan's sword shadows and opening a gigantic Bronze Gate.

• Mu Zhixing explained that only great completion of the Life-Taking Blade could manifest its Heavenly Dao might, while Su Chan's black sword lights broke through Xu Taiping's defensive layers.
• Xu Taiping fully sheathed his Water-Cutting Blade, forming a golden mist that condensed into an ice crystal and initially withstood Su Chan's attack.
• Su Chan's Taotie Sword Qi began devouring the golden mist until a Divine Manifestation appeared behind Xu Taiping and repelled the black sword lights.
• Mu Zhixing realized Xu Taiping had cultivated the Returning Blade to Sheath Form to great completion as Xu Taiping revealed his Dragon Whale Physique and Immaculate Realm qi and blood tempering.
• Xu Taiping drew his saber and used the Ultimate Realm Life-Taking Blade Crossing the Gods Style, splitting Su Chan's sword shadows and opening a gigantic Bronze Gate.

Xu Taiping used the Life-Taking Blade’s Crossing the Gods Style against Su Chan, but Su Chan’s Cloud-Swallowing Whale destroyed the attack without revealing his Unavoidable Wuji Sword. Xu Taiping then prepared the God-Slaying strike, summoning multiple Divine Being Dharma Aspects to strengthen it.

• Cultivators recognized Xu Taiping’s Life-Taking Blade and Ultimate Realm physique, while Mu Zhixing and the others wondered how he had obtained those legacies.
• Xu Taiping’s bronze gates opened and sent the Yellow Springs Skiff charging toward Su Chan.
• Su Chan merged his black sword lights into a Cloud-Swallowing Whale, which swallowed the skiff and gates before bursting apart along with them.
• Xu Taiping decided to test Su Chan with the Life-Taking Blade’s God-Slaying move, hoping to force him to use the Unavoidable Wuji Sword.
• Xu Taiping struck again and summoned multiple Divine Being Dharma Aspects, astonishing the watching cultivators.

Xu Taiping used the Heavenly Wrath Four Symbols Art to strengthen his blade techniques as he defended against Su Chan’s Taotie Sword Qi. As Su Chan’s assault depleted his defenses, Xu Taiping revealed a third Divine Manifestation, leaving the duel poised for a clash of trump cards.

• Two Human-God Push-Back phantoms appeared and raised Xu Taiping’s Blade Qi Manifestation to its second level.
• Xu Taiping used Returning the Blade to Its Sheath Form to break open Su Chan’s Cloud-Swallowing Whale and repel its attack.
• Su Chan unleashed waves of Taotie Sword Qi that battered Xu Taiping’s azure-flame defense.
• Xu Taiping gripped his blade and recognized that he and Su Chan were probing each other’s trump cards.
• As Su Chan’s attack shrank Xu Taiping’s flaming sphere, a golden light behind him transformed into a third Divine Manifestation.