Recaps

Xu Taiping defeated Mo Yachu, learned of the Taixuan Sect’s legacy and the calamity threatening Azure Profound Sect, then faced Chu Yinan in the Golden Scale Assembly championship. After revealing his hidden powers and enduring Chu Yinan’s Heavenly Shadow, Xu Taiping called forth Rusty Lion and began to reveal the sword’s power.

• Xu Taiping killed Mo Yachu after overcoming his summoned beasts and merged form, then learned that Su Chan had warned of a future demon seed threat to Azure Profound Sect.
• Lu Rushuang revealed that she, Sword Nine, and Zhou Ang belonged to the Taixuan Sect’s lineage, and Xu Taiping promised to contend with Chu Yinan to give Azure Profound Sect hope.
• Fairy Lingyue taught Xu Taiping the Great Sun Golden Crow Finger, while his senior disciples sent him messages urging him to win and return safely.
• Xu Taiping’s invited guests, including several powerful abbots and Zhang Tianze, impressed the Golden Scale Assembly spectators before Chu Yinan began their championship match.
• Chu Yinan used formations to suppress Xu Taiping’s blood and qi, but Xu Taiping countered with his hidden cultivation, Frost Breath Art, lifebound clone, and stored True Essence.
• Xu Taiping froze Chu Yinan inside an ice tower, but Chu Yinan broke free by releasing his sealed power and summoned three divine figures with the Youyun Gui Water Deity-Inviting Incantation.
• Xu Taiping used the Great Sun Golden Crow Finger to destroy the divine figures, then opened his Unceasing Blade Domain and wounded Chu Yinan before the prince revealed his Martial God body and Thousand-Army Battle Intent.
• Xu Taiping fought through Chu Yinan’s Heavenly Shadow attacks, called Rusty Lion from his Iron Gourd, and made its revealed blade and Vast Righteous Qi part the descending sword shadows as an archaic verse appeared above the platform.

Xu Taiping won the Golden Scale Assembly, broke through to Spirit Refining, and began protecting Lin Buyu and Dongfang Yuejian from their looming dangers. After surviving Yuejian’s fifth tribulation and securing powerful treasures, he prepared for the Master of the One-Leaf Book’s next move.

• Xu Taiping defeated the Third Prince’s Heavenly Light Sword Shadows with Remove Armor, and Emperor Youyun recognized him as the Golden Scale Assembly champion and rewarded him with an immaculate Dao heart, perfect Profound Comprehension, and healing.
• Xu Taiping broke through to Spirit Refining while Zhang Tianze, the Dharma Masters, and Qionghua fought off and destroyed a Red-Powder Skeleton Heavenly Demon summoned by his breakthrough.
• Xu Taiping encountered a young Lin Buyu in the river of light and shadow and taught her the Remnant Sunset Scripture before returning to his body and learning he was a Life-Replenisher who might save her.
• After seeing the Lotus Eye’s vision of Qingxuan in ruins, Xu Taiping learned that Dongfang Yuejian’s fifth tribulation was beginning and killed Dongfang Gulu when he tried to poison Yuejian and Su Qingtan.
• Xu Taiping escorted Dongfang Yuejian through dangerous accidents to Youyun Pavilion, where she summoned the Cold Sky Pearl and Xu Taiping mastered it by refining it with his blood vitality.
• Xu Taiping called forth the Gold Essence Coin, named it Ghost Zha, and then accepted a Soul Contract with the Life-and-Death Seal, becoming the holder of two Tower-Suppressing Treasures.
• Xu Taiping learned that the Master of the One-Leaf Book had planted Dongfang Yuejian’s Seven Tribulations Curse and would attack her the next day, while Fairy Lingyue taught him a formation and explained his breakthrough’s unusual signs.

Xu Taiping helped Dongfang Yuejian escape her pursuers, defeated Old Daoist Mao with the Spirit-Shocking Formation, and gathered several treasures from the Earth Fruit. He then secured Fairy Lingyue’s aid against Jingkong, and the arc ended with her battling Jingkong’s Rahu Heavenly Demon Dharma Aspect.

• Fairy Lingyue explained Xu Taiping’s cultivation path and the ranks of the Transformation Realm, while Lu Rushuang told him the Dongfang Household was being driven out of the Imperial Capital.
• Xu Taiping joined Su Qingtan and Dongfang Yuejian, helped them counter One-Leaf Book’s ambushes, and led them through Blood Rain Forest as Zhu Huai and Zhang Tianze watched.
• Xu Taiping used the Spirit-Shocking Formation to expose Old Daoist Mao, whose body and Natal Treasures were destroyed by attacks from the sky, though he escaped through a rift as One-Leaf Book.
• Xu Taiping picked the Spirit Peaches and found a Gate-Sealing Stone, the Shentu Bow, three time-warping candles, and a Sage’s Literary Heart.
• Zhu Huai and Zhang Tianze asked Xu Taiping to have his senior confront Jingkong, and Fairy Lingyue agreed in exchange for the Red Essence Yin-Yang Mirror and Cloud Emergence Sword.
• Xu Taiping borrowed Cloud Emergence from the Sword Suppression Tower, where Fairy Lingyue subdued its sword spirit, and learned that Jingkong had emerged while the Demon Army was gathering.
• As Jingkong overwhelmed Xuanzhi and the Cloud-Hidden Temple monks, Xu Taiping ate a Spirit Peach so Fairy Lingyue could take control of his body and fly to the battle.
• Fairy Lingyue arrived and drove Jingkong’s Rahu Heavenly Demon Dharma Aspect to its knees, extinguished his Black Lotus Demon Flame with the Cold Sky Pearl, and kept fighting after the aspect broke free of her ice.

Xu Taiping uncovered the Faceless Tower’s plot against Qingxuan, destroyed its assassins in Youyun Heaven, and discovered an Otherworldly Evil God in his shadow. He returned to True Martial Heaven to prepare Qingxuan’s rescue, but first intervened against Song Tianchou at the Heavenly Blade Sect.

• Fairy Lingyue defeated Jingkong’s summoned ghosts and used the Cloud Emergence Sword to trap him in the Demon Grotto.
• Xu Taiping’s Lotus Eye revealed that One-Eye and Browless had spent six years undermining Qingxuan and had turned White Rainbow into their living puppet.
• Fairy Lingyue secured permission to lend Gongshu Bai the Dragon Pearl, and Gongshu Bai gave Xu Taiping a Mysterious Wasteland Ring.
• Xu Taiping learned that he was on the Beheading List, killed the Faceless Ones gathered at his banquet, and stopped Wu Baishou from destroying Vairocana Temple’s Teleportation Platform.
• Nangong Yuan relayed Shang Jiu’s warning about an existence that erased its victims, and Fairy Lingyue and Venerable Jiaye rescued Xu Taiping from its attack.
• Fairy Lingyue identified the threat in Xu Taiping’s shadow as an Otherworldly Evil God, and Xu Taiping agreed to strengthen his Primordial Spirit and seek the Heavenly Wrath Five Forms to rescue Shang Jiu.
• Xu Taiping returned to True Martial Heaven, killed thirteen Tyrant Blade Sect disciples blocking the teleportation platform, and told Bai Yu to reach the Demon Venerable Realm before helping rescue White Rainbow.
• Xu Taiping entered the Heavenly Blade Sect as Lu Wen, confirmed Duan Xiaoyu’s safety, and fought Song Tianchou while Song Tianchou tried to force the sect into an alliance.