Recaps

Dugu Qingxiao survived repeated deaths to enter the Yellow Springs, while Liu Gu, Gao Nu, Bu Xueting, and Lin Qingnu faced the Nine Abysses’ challengers. The stretch ended with Lin Qingnu trapping Su Chan in a second sword vortex after their fierce duel continued.

• Dugu Qingxiao used six Nirvanic Annihilations to defeat the Sword Fiend and other challengers, then cut through the ghostly hands dragging him into the Yellow Springs.
• Liu Gu revealed Yellow Immortal within him and used Gu arts to defeat Meng Gu before conceding to Madam Yu.
• Gao Nu summoned Bu Xueting, who defeated Madam Yu and gave up his chance to claim the Half-Immortal seat before Gao Nu killed her.
• Zhou Yi and Lang Dang sacrificed themselves to empower Su Chan, who challenged Bu Xueting and forced Gao Nu to concede.
• Bu Xueting weakened Su Chan with Ephemeral Bloom and departed, while Lin Qingnu took up the next challenge.
• Lin Qingnu fought Su Chan with his divine-human variant bone body and Windfeather, but Su Chan’s Taotie tore through much of his body.
• Lin Qingnu restored his golden sword vortex with Divine Intent and the power of nearby peaks, then trapped Su Chan in a second vortex after Su Chan broke through the first.

Cui Tiegu and A Meng revealed the Sword Inquiry’s purpose as contenders faced Su Chan, who defeated A Meng and Yun Ye. Xu Taiping then challenged Su Chan over his betrayal of Qingxuan and Zhenwu, and their fight ended with both testing their strongest techniques.

• Lin Qingnu exhausted himself repairing his Sword Qi tornado until Su Chan forced him from the Sword Platform, and Cui Tiegu entered the fight with borrowed Zhenwu Sword Intent.
• Cui Tiegu and A Meng revealed that the Sword Inquiry sought a successor to the True Martial Great Emperor, and the Sword Chief Ranking selected Xu Taiping and Yun Ye for its final test.
• A Meng used his Common Man’s Fury to defeat Su Chan’s final night-blooming cereus flower, then completed his Dao Heart with Xu Taiping’s help and revealed that he was Liu Sui.
• Yun Ye fought Su Chan with the Three Powers Immortal-Slaying Sword, but Su Chan’s Sword Returns to the Great Void overcame him and the Three Sovereigns Seal rescued him from the platform.
• Xu Taiping challenged Su Chan, accusing him of betraying Qingxuan and endangering True Martial Heaven, then used his Mysterious Origin Avatars and blade force against Su Chan’s sword attacks.
• Xu Taiping unleashed the Life-Taking Blade and used the Returning Blade to Sheath Form to withstand Su Chan’s Bury Heaven, Burn Earth, while revealing his Dragon Whale Physique and Immaculate Realm tempering.
• Xu Taiping sent the Yellow Springs Skiff through bronze gates at Su Chan, who destroyed them with his Cloud-Swallowing Whale, and Xu Taiping summoned multiple Divine Being Dharma Aspects.
• Su Chan battered Xu Taiping’s azure-flame defense with Taotie Sword Qi as Xu Taiping recognized they were probing each other’s trump cards, and a third Divine Manifestation appeared behind him.

Xu Taiping pushed Su Chan to the brink through a fierce battle, then risked Dao Integration with Lotus Eye to gain the power to cut down Su Chan’s Golden Branch. After the Nine Abysses intervened and the Demon Mother transported them to the Ruins of the Old Heavenly Court, Xu Taiping faced Su Chan’s living avatar and reaffirmed his own identity as their fight continued.

• Xu Taiping used his God-Slaying Form and Martial Dao Extreme Laws to batter Su Chan, but Su Chan survived by shedding his shell and consuming the Golden Fruits that concealed his cultivation.
• Xu Taiping chose Dao Integration with Lotus Eye despite Fairy Lingyue’s warnings, survived the shattering of his Golden Core, and fused with the Yin God’s Great Medicine.
• Xu Taiping used Lotus Eye’s power to reverse time around Su Chan, severed the Golden Branch, and then fought on as Su Chan’s strength continued to grow.
• Xu Taiping waited for Su Chan’s completed Black Sword attack, deciphered it with the Hidden Sword Art, and countered with strikes that destroyed Su Chan’s black sphere and half his body.
• The Nine Abysses’ black swords attacked Xu Taiping after the Sword Chief Ranking named him victor, while a second Su Chan carried away the damaged body and the Demon Mother declared a second Heaven-Demon War contest.
• The Demon Mother transported Xu Taiping and Su Chan to the Ruins of the Old Heavenly Court, where Xu Taiping identified Su Chan as a living avatar created through a taboo technique.
• Su Chan turned his fallen body into Black Scale Armor and Taotie, while Xu Taiping defended his Dao and declared there could only ever be one Xu Taiping.

Xu Taiping gathered the swords of cultivators across the Five Heavens and struck down Su Chan, but Lü Daoxuan concealed him in a bronze coffin for three years. After awakening, Xu Taiping learned about the coming calamity, the Taixuan coffins, and Lü Daoxuan’s clones.

• Xu Taiping fought through Su Chan’s Sword Mountain, and the soul-seal brands on his body stirred memories of his sacrifice across the Five Heavens.
• Xu Taiping called on others to lend him swords, and cultivators from across the Five Heavens offered their blades despite threats from the Heartless Demon Emperor.
• Xu Taiping’s gathered sword pierced Su Chan, but a giant Chi Dragon lunged at him before he could recover.
• Lü Daoxuan cut down the Chi Dragon, erased traces of Xu Taiping from the River of Time, and had Fairy Lingyue seal him in a bronze coffin for three years.
• Xu Taiping awoke in the Netherdark Demon Grotto and learned from Fairy Lingyue that the Azure Profound Sect would soon be sealed away and that he had been named True Martial Sword Champion.
• Lü Daoxuan brought Xu Taiping and Fairy Lingyue into the Scroll of Time to help seal an awakened Earth Calamity Demon Seed, then reclaimed the Ink Qilin Sword and faced the Gang Wind.
• Lü Daoxuan explained that the Great Void Calamity would return and that the Taixuan Sect’s Bronze Gates and Demon-Suppressing Coffins could seal demons and aid the Azure Profound Sect.
• Lü Daoxuan revealed that the coffins could stop time, conceal and preserve his Origin Beginning Clones, and allow him to be reborn through a surviving clone.