Recaps

Xu Taiping used the Sword Inquiry to draw Su Chan’s people out, while Zhao Linglong risked her life to force Lin Qingnu to reveal his Divine-Human Variant Bone. Xu Taiping was framed for murder and imprisoned, where he prepared for a suspected assassination as tensions spread through Liuxian Town.

• Xu Taiping defeated Bai Di with Ants Shake the Tree, then blasted him from the Sword Platform with his saber and revealed his immense true essence to attract Su Chan’s attention.
• Zhao Linglong joined the Heavenly Punishment Group’s Sword Inquiry and challenged Lin Qingnu, whose identity as one of Lin Qinggu’s true bodies surprised Xu Taiping.
• Zhao Linglong fought Lin Qingnu with her Immortal Silk, divine generals, and Heaven and Earth Borrowing Law, then burned her soul and body to summon the Five-Road Divine Lords.
• Zhao Linglong forced Lin Qingnu to reveal his Divine-Human Variant Bone and divine intent, but conceded after he shattered Junque, and A Meng then challenged Lin Qingnu, who refused with a Ceasefire Token.
• Xu Taiping used the Lotus Eye to learn that a veiled woman had urged Zhao Linglong to force Lin Qingnu to reveal his bone, and he suspected Junior Sister Buyu had guided her.
• Qian Yi and Liu Chuxuan accused Xu Taiping, under the name Chu Ping'an, of murdering Chu Qiuyai and sent him to the Nine Prefectures Prison while they investigated.
• Xu Taiping told Fairy Lingyue that Su Chan planned to use his imprisonment to inflame hostility between rogue cultivators and sect disciples, and they prepared for an attacker approaching his cell.

Xu Taiping defeated Su Chan’s Demon Cultivators, then agreed to fight Su Chan alone in the Sword Inquiry’s final match to protect the Azure Profound Sect’s disciples. As the contest began, Xu Taiping still had not appeared, and Fu Yuan removed his name from the Sword Chief Ranking.

• Xu Taiping broke free of his Soul Needles and, with Old Smoky Ghost and Red Lion, defeated Witch Su Xue and the Stone Demon in the prison.
• Xu Taiping and Fairy Lingyue confronted Su Chan at Liuhe Pagoda, where Fairy Lingyue battled his Heavenly Wolf Demon God but Su Chan escaped using Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell.
• Su Chan revealed that Elder Mo had infected Azure Profound Sect disciples with a Demon Seed power and demanded that Xu Taiping fight him alone in ten days to save them.
• Xu Taiping and Su Chan signed a contract: Xu Taiping handed over the two Demon Seeds, and Su Chan agreed to release the controlled cultivators and keep Xu Taiping’s identity secret until the Sword Inquiry ended.
• Nine days later, Zhao Qian and Dugu Qingxiao worried that Xu Taiping would not return for the final match, while the Nine Prefectures searched for the fugitive Chu Ping'an.
• Xu Taiping chose not to meet his companions before the contest, and the crowd gathered to wait for him when the mountain-guarding elder called his name.
• Xu Taiping failed to appear for the final Sword Inquiry, and Fu Yuan announced that his name would be removed from the Sword Chief Ranking.

Xu Taiping returned to the Sword Inquiry and defeated successive challengers while Su Chan sought to make his strength appear demonic. After Liu Zijin intervened on his behalf and Xu Taiping overwhelmed Zhou Zaidao, the contest stalled over accusations of demonic corruption, which Xu Taiping agreed to disprove.

• Xu Taiping returned before Fu Yuan removed his name from the Sword Chief Ranking and declared that he would face the twenty-nine opponents.
• Xu Taiping defeated the impostor Jia Sheng despite his borrowed ancestor power and shattered the Red Sky Sword with Great Sage Fist: Baxia Form.
• Su Chan plotted to turn the Five Heavens against Xu Taiping while Fairy Lingyue searched for his hiding place.
• Xu Taiping defeated Yu Dan and further challengers despite growing suspicions about how he had overcome the Bone-Shattering Curse.
• Liu Zijin thanked Xu Taiping for saving her and challenged Zhou Zaidao, giving Xu Taiping time to recover.
• Liu Zijin forced Zhou Zaidao to reveal greater strength before Cui Tiegu rescued her from his attacks.
• Xu Taiping challenged Zhou Zaidao, overwhelmed him with his released strength, and sealed his demon seed power with a golden branch.
• Zhao Qian and Meng Qingqiu intervened when Wu Guang demanded an end to the Sword Inquiry, and Xu Taiping agreed to prove he had not fallen to demonic corruption.

Xu Taiping cleared the accusations against him by revealing the Treading the Sea Army’s sacrifice, but Su Chan’s use of the Demon Mother’s Jade Edict began the Heaven-Demon War anew. The Sword Inquiry opened with Qi Po defeating Long Xie and dying to Sword Fiend, Chen Hao sacrificing himself to wound Sword Fiend, and Dugu Qingxiao entering the next duel.

• True Lord Xuanpin showed a Moonshadow Stone depicting Xu Taiping fighting alongside the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord, and the Mysterious Female True Lord accused him of causing the deaths of missing cultivators in the Golden Court Inner Grotto-Heaven.
• Xu Taiping revealed the Treading the Sea Army’s stone stele and showed the army’s battle against the Primordial Lord, then presented Divine Soul Marks that exposed the sacrifice of Great Elder Lou and the others.
• Xu Taiping cleared his name and credited the Azure-Eyed Evil Lord with defeating the Primordial Lord, while Fairy Lingyue learned that Su Chan had invoked the Demon Mother’s Jade Edict.
• The Demon Mother declared True Martial Heaven the battlefield of a renewed Heaven-Demon War, and the Sword Chief Ranking and Jade Edict named Xu Taiping and Su Chan as their first challengers before selecting the combatants for three contests.
• Qi Po fought Demon Emperor Long Xie, killed him with his fourth-level Sword Domain, and was then beheaded by Sword Fiend.
• Chen Hao challenged Sword Fiend and used Liberation by Violence to shatter his attack and wound him, then died after the cultivators hailed him as a Sword Saint.
• Dugu Qingxiao entered the Sword Inquiry against Sword Fiend, and Zhao Qian warned Xu Taiping that Dugu Qingxiao’s Nirvanic Annihilation could strengthen him at the cost of his life.