Recaps

Song Chi escaped the Filth Demons with Han Ling’s help, then returned to the battlefield to set a trap and reveal his ability to blend immortal and demonic qi. He activated a new sword formation against the trapped demons, leaving its power and the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Shadowstrike dragged Song Chi away from the Filth Demons, and Han Ling sheltered him from the pursuing creatures.
• Song Chi realized the Filth Demons were calling him Cang Xuan and asked Han Ling to buy him an incense stick’s worth of time.
• Song Chi laid a formation across the battlefield while Han Ling and her army covered him and contained the Filth Demons.
• Song Chi told Han Ling to retreat, then revealed a formation powered by perfectly blended immortal and demonic qi.
• Song Chi declared that the demons’ blood would consecrate his newly comprehended sword art and commanded the formation to rise.

Song Chi used the completed Sword Formation to slaughter the Filth Demons, but the demonic side overwhelmed him with their memories and obsessions. He realized the filth was every living being’s longing to survive and opened his Divine Sense to command it.

• Song Chi completed the Sword Formation, alarming Han Ling with its immense power.
• Song Chi unleashed the immortal sword formation, swiftly killing the Filth Demons on its side.
• Han Ling noticed the demonic side was killing the Filth Demons far more slowly.
• Song Chi discovered the demonic formation was devouring the Filth Demons and flooding his mind with their memories.
• Song Chi recognized the filth as living beings’ unwillingness to die and opened his Divine Sense to command it.

Song Chi risked his consciousness by embracing the tormented souls within the demonic qi, transforming them into shadow soldiers who pledged themselves to him. After declaring his path to be “Teach All Without Discrimination,” he collapsed and asked Han Ling to take him back to Undying Mountain.

• Han Ling held her troops back as Song Chi’s divine sense let demonic qi overwhelm the Four Extremes Sword Formation.
• Song Chi resisted Cang Xuan’s forceful suppression and accepted the filth demons as living beings, calming their rage.
• Thousands of shadow figures emerged from the demonic tide and knelt to Song Chi, then vanished into his shadow when he declared his new path.
• Song Chi collapsed from the pain of the memories flooding his mind, and Han Ling caught him.
• Song Chi asked Han Ling to take him back to the Forgotten River and Undying Mountain before passing out.

Song Chi collapsed after dispelling the Filth Demons and saving the Soaring Cloud Realm, leaving him overwhelmed by the countless obsessions he had taken on. Han Ling and his friends rushed him toward Undying Mountain for help, while Luo Hongyi began imagining a place to shelter and cleanse wandering souls.

• Han Ling found Song Chi unconscious but alive, protected by nine strands of sword intent, as the people of the Soaring Cloud Realm bowed in gratitude for his victory.
• Han Ling ordered the army to secure the Soaring Cloud Realm and carried Song Chi aboard an Immortal Ship toward Undying Mountain.
• Xie Changsheng, Zhou Yan, Luo Hongyi, Murong Li, Black Mountain, and Red Wind met Han Ling in the Fusang Divine Tree and were horrified by Song Chi's condition.
• Zhou Yan and Murong Li failed to untangle Song Chi's karma, and Xie Changsheng could not reverse his injuries with the Law of Time.
• Han Ling persuaded Song Chi's friends to stop trying to absorb the obsessions and hurry to Undying Mountain, where Brother Si might help him.
• Luo Hongyi wondered where the world's unresolved souls could find refuge and imagined a place that could shelter and cleanse them.

Xie Changsheng and the others returned to Undying Mountain with the gravely injured Song Chi, only to find the household stricken with grief. They discovered Si Chen bearing the weight of the Myriad Heavens and Worlds’ karma, his hair turned white, and he told them to set Song Chi down.

• Commander Han Ling brought the Immortal Ship to Undying Mountain, then departed to return to the Soaring Cloud Realm.
• Xie Changsheng and the others found Gray Gray subdued and the Si Household Members in tears as they carried Song Chi toward the rear courtyard.
• Li Tiezhu silently guarded Si Chen’s courtyard entrance and let the group pass.
• Xie Changsheng and the others saw Si Chen with completely white hair, bearing the karma of the Myriad Heavens and Worlds.
• Si Chen calmly stopped their questions and told them to set Song Chi down.

Si Chen explained that Song Chi’s Obsessions, rather than the demonic energy, were killing him, and that forcefully burning them away would destroy his Divine Soul. He gave Luo Hongyi a seed of the Great Dream Dao so her zither music could soothe the Obsessions, and she began playing as one of them found comfort in a dream of his mother.

• Si Chen examined Song Chi and said he could not save him by force because the Obsessions in his Sea of Consciousness would take his Divine Soul with them.
• Si Chen recalled the Mirage Dragon’s Great Dream Dao and proposed resolving the Obsessions by giving them farewells rather than destroying them.
• Si Chen entrusted Luo Hongyi with a seed of the Great Dream Dao and told her to use her zither music to soothe Song Chi’s Spiritual Terrace.
• Luo Hongyi played her Jade Zither, and Song Chi’s anguished expression began to relax.
• In Song Chi’s Sea of Consciousness, a starving child reunited with his dead mother in a dream, ate her porridge, and became a speck of pure white light.

Luo Hongyi’s zither granted tormented souls the peaceful endings they had longed for, dissolving their resentment and allowing Song Chi to break through to the late-stage Mystic Immortal realm. She recorded the souls’ names, lives, and final wishes in Si Chen’s transformed notebook, and Si Chen recognized that she had found her own Dao.

• Luo Hongyi’s zither gave a fallen soldier and a dead dog the reunions they had yearned for, allowing their souls to dissolve peacefully.
• The resolved obsessions calmed the conflicting energies inside Song Chi, and he advanced to the late-stage Mystic Immortal realm, just half a step from the Golden Immortal tribulation.
• Luo Hongyi opened Si Chen’s transformed notebook and drew the souls’ imprints from Song Chi into a blank page.
• The page recorded each soul’s name, life, and final wish, prompting Xie Changsheng to recognize it as a ledger of life and death.
• Si Chen congratulated Luo Hongyi on finding her own Dao, which he described as a Dao of reincarnation.

Luo Hongyi accepted the booklet and promised to remember Si Chen’s words, while Song Chi recovered from the Great Dream Dao’s effects and discovered he had broken through to the late-stage Mystic Immortal realm. He then saw Si Chen’s snow-white hair and overwhelming aura, and realized that something terrible had happened while he was unconscious.

• Luo Hongyi hugged the booklet and firmly promised to remember Si Chen’s words.
• Song Chi indulged in a delusional dream, and Xie Changsheng and Zhou Yan joked about killing him until Si Chen stopped them.
• Xie Changsheng kicked Song Chi awake, and Zhou Yan explained that Si Chen, Luo Hongyi, and Commander Han had brought him back to Undying Mountain.
• Song Chi realized his immortal and demonic energies had harmonized and that he had advanced to the late-stage Mystic Immortal realm, nearing Golden Immortal.
• Song Chi noticed Si Chen’s white hair and oppressive aura, asked what had happened, and could not smile at Si Chen’s teasing explanation.

Si Chen told the Undying Mountain group that Taichu was his other self, born alongside him, and had detonated the foundational laws to return the worlds to chaos. With Taichu gone and the end still looming, Si Chen asked whether they were ready to oppose him to save the Myriad Heavens and Worlds.

• Si Chen gathered the group in the courtyard and explained what he and the Eleven Immortal Emperors had discovered in the Demon Realm and the Origin Realm.
• Zhou Yan reacted with shock when Si Chen revealed that Taichu was not a counterfeit but a genuine other version of himself.
• Si Chen explained that he and Taichu had once been two connected sides of one body, and that Taichu had detonated the foundational laws of the myriad worlds.
• Xie Changsheng and Zhou Yan realized Si Chen had sacrificed himself to hold the collapsing worlds together, and Si Chen comforted them without explaining his choice.
• Si Chen warned that Taichu might return to bring about the true end and asked whether they were ready to make an enemy of him.

Si Chen transported the Eastern Region Crew to a dead star to show them the difference between his strength and theirs, then suppressed his cultivation to their Mystic Immortal realm and invited them to attack. Their first coordinated assault failed, and Black Mountain and Red Wind were sent crashing away by Si Chen’s effortless kicks.

• Song Chi tried to dispel the group’s gloom by boasting that he and the others could join forces to defeat Taichu.
• Si Chen warned the group that Taichu was no counterfeit and that they misunderstood his strength, then used Great Void Shift to transport them to a barren dead star.
• Si Chen unleashed his aura, overwhelmed the group, and showed them that his apparent weakness had misled them.
• Si Chen suppressed his cultivation to Mystic Immortal and challenged the group to use their strongest attacks or risk dying.
• Xie Changsheng, Luo Hongyi, Black Mountain, and Red Wind launched a coordinated attack, but Si Chen calmly evaded them and kicked Black Mountain and Red Wind through two mountaintops.

Si Chen defeated the Eastern Region’s all-star team while teaching its members how to deepen their powers. The battle ended with him dismantling Song Chi’s sword formation and showing him what a true killing formation required.

• Si Chen shattered Zhou Yan and Murong Li’s chessboard formation, then used the eight trigrams to unravel their karma and fate and wound them.
• Xie Changsheng stopped time to attack Si Chen, but Si Chen split into his past, present, and future selves, stopped Xie’s time, and struck him down.
• Luo Hongyi drew Si Chen into a dream of a peaceful life on Undying Mountain, but Si Chen shattered the illusion and taught her to establish rules in her music.
• Song Chi and the others trapped Si Chen in a formation of immortal and demonic sword energy, but Si Chen walked through it unharmed.
• Si Chen told Song Chi to create his own sword formation and taught him the four intents of Execution, Slaughter, Ensnarement, and Annihilation before dismantling the formation.

Si Chen demonstrated four devastating sword strikes to help Song Chi break through his old understanding, then healed his friends after defeating them. He goaded the Eastern Region Crew into charging him again, and their repeated clashes began rapidly transforming their understanding of the laws.

• Si Chen showed Song Chi the forms of Execution, Slaughter, Ensnarement, and Annihilation, pushing him to the brink of death before flicking him away.
• Si Chen healed Xie Changsheng, Zhou Yan, Luo Hongyi, Murong Li, Black Mountain, Red Wind, and Song Chi with the Yi Wood Eternal Spring Art.
• Si Chen mocked his friends for failing to challenge him, reigniting their fighting spirit.
• Red Wind rallied the Eastern Region Crew to pluck a hair from Si Chen, and they charged him again across Desolate Star.
• As Si Chen repeatedly defeated, injured, and healed them, the laws emanating from the crew transformed at a terrifying speed.

Xie Changsheng and the Eastern Region Crew fought Si Chen on a Desolate Star and managed to pluck one of his white hairs before he healed them and brought them back to Undying Mountain. They discovered that their long battle had lasted only half a breath in the courtyard.

• Xie Changsheng pushed the Law of Time to its limit during the crew’s coordinated attack and emerged with a white hair from Si Chen.
• Xie Changsheng and the Eastern Region Crew celebrated their apparent victory, while Si Chen wondered whether he had held back or their teamwork had truly created an opening.
• Si Chen healed the injured crew, opened a spatial rift with Great Void Shift, and led them back to Undying Mountain.
• Li Tiezhu charged into the courtyard to defend Si Chen, then panicked when he saw him standing and thought he was making a final rally before death.
• Li Tiezhu told the crew that only half a breath had passed, astonishing them after their prolonged battle on the Desolate Star.

Xie Changsheng told Si Chen and their friends how he traveled through time and gave his past self the law of time, prompting Si Chen to arrange help finding more Time Amber. The gathering turned to Song Chi naming his sword formation, and Li Tiezhu was left shocked by the name he proposed and the Black Staff in his hands.

• Si Chen explained that he had stretched a moment by borrowing Xie Changsheng's law of time, then invited Li Tiezhu into the courtyard for tea.
• Xie Changsheng recounted meeting Shi Yin's lingering image and described his journey through time, including sending the law of time to his past self.
• Si Chen offered to have the army search Demon Race Ancestral Courts for Time Amber to help Xie Changsheng cultivate.
• Song Chi announced he still needed a name for his sword formation, and Xie Changsheng mocked him by suggesting the Crotch-Guard Grand Formation.
• Li Tiezhu blurted out the name Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, which Song Chi eagerly adopted.
• Li Tiezhu stared at Song Chi and the Black Staff marked Ruyi, and wondered in shock where he had ended up.

Li Tiezhu feared that the place he had hoped to return to did not exist, but Si Chen helped him realize that his knowledge of the future meant his home still lay ahead. Li Tiezhu regained his spirits, and Si Chen said his journey had only just begun.

• Li Tiezhu recognized the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation’s name and feared it proved his home, the Blue Planet, did not exist.
• Si Chen noticed Li Tiezhu’s distress and invited him to sit and explain his worry indirectly.
• Black Mountain told Li Tiezhu he could build a place that did not exist, while Si Chen asked him to consider what knowing tomorrow’s fruit meant.
• Li Tiezhu realized that seeing the future meant the tree had survived the storm, and concluded that his road home still existed.
• Li Tiezhu cheered up, embraced Song Chi, and praised his formation before Si Chen sent him to clean up the porcelain shards.
• Luo Hongyi asked whether Li Tiezhu was all right, and Si Chen reassured her that his journey had only just begun.

Li Tiezhu visited Si Chen at midnight, growing convinced that his master was the figure he suspected but being warned not to speak the name aloud. The next morning, Si Che brought Wang Yan, his mother, and numerous Lower Realm cultivators to Undying Mountain, then revealed he had also brought the female sect leaders so none of them would be left behind.

• Li Tiezhu slipped into Si Chen's courtyard at the third watch and tried to ask about his master's identity.
• Si Chen stopped Li Tiezhu from speaking the suspected name and told him that names carried weight in the Myriad Heavens and Worlds.
• Si Chen told Li Tiezhu to nurture his Ruyi Golden-Hooped Staff, and Li Tiezhu left believing his master had confirmed his suspicions.
• Si Che and Wang Yan arrived at Undying Mountain with Wang Yan's mother and a procession of Lower Realm cultivators.
• Song Chi reunited with Zhao Wuji, while the other disciples welcomed their elders and masters.
• Su Miaoyin, Mu Qianqian, and many female sect leaders emerged from the Ascension Passage, and Si Che explained he had brought them all to Undying Mountain.

At Undying Mountain, Si Chen reunited with the gathered sect leaders and old friends, who were startled by his white hair but reassured by his calm demeanor. Beyond the heavens, the Filth Demon was reborn in the former Demon Realm, where Taichu chose to use him as a tool to cleanse the heavens.

• Si Kai and the elders welcomed the visiting sect leaders and cultivators at the Ascension Platform, while Si Kai and Third Uncle Granduncle kindly greeted Wang Yan's mortal mother.
• Ye Fu warmly reunited with Su Miaoyin, Mu Qianqian, and the other female cultivators as Si Che asked where Si Chen was.
• Si Chen arrived with white hair and calmly invited his old friends into the hall after his appearance startled them.
• Black vapor gathered in the former Demon Realm and formed the Filth Demon, who roared Song Chi's name.
• Taichu appeared before the newly born Filth Demon and declared that he would use him as a rag to scrub the heavens clean.

Taichu overwhelmed the newly born Filth Demon, forced him into servitude, and named him Luo Hou. When Taichu asked why he had first spoken the name Song Chi, Luo Hou revealed that Demon Venerable Cangxuan’s resentment toward Song Chi dominated the hatred within him.

• The Filth Demon attacked Taichu with destruction, but Taichu effortlessly dispersed his storm and stopped his enormous fist with one finger.
• Taichu endured the Filth Demon’s attacks for an hour, then halted his attempt to escape and forced him back into a kneeling form.
• Taichu ordered the Filth Demon to serve him and named him Luo Hou, while Luo Hou secretly vowed to grow strong enough to take revenge.
• Taichu asked why Luo Hou had first uttered Song Chi’s name, and Luo Hou erupted in hatred, drawing on Demon Venerable Cangxuan’s humiliation and resentment toward Song Chi.

Taichu left Luo Hou alive, and Luo Hou vowed to kill Song Chi before pursuing revenge against Taichu. In the Immortal Realm, Si Chen's companions departed to pursue their goals, while Luo Hongyi resolved to create a home for the dead and guide wandering souls back into the cycle of reincarnation.

• Taichu withdrew into the darkness, and Luo Hou rose after confirming he had left, swearing to kill Song Chi and eventually repay Taichu's humiliation.
• Si Che escorted Zhao Wuji, Wen Yao, Zhou Dian, and the other newly ascended sect ancestors to meet Forgotten River's local sects, which eagerly offered them land.
• Xie Changsheng, Song Chi, Zhou Yan, and their companions told Si Chen they were leaving to consolidate their cultivation and seek Time Amber across the Myriad Heavens and Worlds.
• Luo Hongyi told Si Chen she wanted to establish a home for the dead where wandering souls could resolve their obsessions and reenter the cycle of heaven and earth.
• Si Chen encouraged Luo Hongyi to begin her undertaking with Zhou Yan and Murong Li, and she joined her companions as they set out.

Luo Hou tracked Song Chi to the Soaring Cloud Realm and attacked it when Han Ling refused to reveal his whereabouts. The realm survived his destruction law, and Zhu Yao and Feng Qing arrived to confront him.

• Luo Hou sensed Song Chi's aura in the Soaring Cloud Realm and descended, forcing Han Ling and every living creature to the ground with his pressure.
• Luo Hou demanded that Han Ling tell him where Song Chi had gone, then attacked the realm when she did not answer.
• Han Ling ordered the troops to retreat as Luo Hou's black sphere spread destruction across the land.
• Golden veins throughout the realm stopped the destruction law from collapsing the plane, leaving Luo Hou shocked.
• Zhu Yao and Feng Qing crossed through a spatial rift and confronted Luo Hou, with Feng Qing mocking him as a monster cobbled together from rotten meat.

Luo Hou fought Zhu Yao and Feng Qing, discovered that Cang Xuan’s memories had concealed his fear of Zhu Yao, and fled after their combined flames badly burned him. Before disappearing, he threatened Song Chi, leaving Zhu Yao and Feng Qing confused about why he had singled him out.

• Luo Hou recalled Cang Xuan’s desire to capture Zhu Yao and Feng Qing, then vowed to turn both Demon Sovereigns into specimens.
• Zhu Yao and Feng Qing attacked Luo Hou together, and he initially believed he was holding the advantage.
• Zhu Yao unleashed nine blazing suns while Feng Qing sent down a storm of flaming feathers, burning through Luo Hou’s defense.
• Luo Hou realized Cang Xuan had made excuses to avoid confronting Zhu Yao because he could not defeat her, then decided the fight was not worth the cost.
• Luo Hou retreated into the Void Rift after promising revenge and shouting that he would kill Song Chi.
• Zhu Yao and Feng Qing stared at each other in confusion over Luo Hou’s threat against Song Chi.

Zhu Yao and Feng Qing drove off a mysterious Filth Demon and learned from Si Chen that Xie Changsheng needed Time Amber to reach the Immortal King Realm. Zhu Yao ordered the Demon Race armies to search every Demon Race Ancestral Court for it and bring it to Undying Mountain.

• Han Ling thanked Zhu Yao and Feng Qing for saving the Immortal Realm’s soldiers, and Feng Qing explained that they had acted for their lord, not the Immortal Realm.
• Zhu Yao told Feng Qing that the escaped Filth Demon carried the scents of Cang Xuan and Jiang Taibai and had survived their combined attack.
• Si Chen contacted Zhu Yao and Feng Qing, asked them to collect all Time Amber from the Demon Race Ancestral Courts, and explained Shi Yin’s warning to Xie Changsheng.
• Zhu Yao and Feng Qing wondered whether Shi Yin’s lingering image meant he or other ancient figures might return to life.
• Zhu Yao ordered every Demon Emperor under her command to search the lower realms for Time Amber and bring every piece back to Undying Mountain.

Si Chen reflected on the Filth Demons’ grudge against Ah Chi, then saw Wang Yan and Li Tiezhu working hard to support him. He decided to personally train both disciples, warning that failure could cost them their lives.

• Si Chen concluded that Cang Xuan’s resentment had influenced the Filth Demons and that Ah Chi deserved some blame.
• Wang Yan brought Si Chen medicinal broth, said he had advanced toward Spirit Transformation by cultivating with the Sun True Flame, and offered to help shoulder his burdens.
• Si Chen sensed Li Tiezhu training intensely with the Ruyi staff and recognized both disciples’ efforts to grow stronger.
• Si Chen summoned Li Tiezhu and told him and Wang Yan that he would personally teach them from that day onward.
• Si Chen warned the disciples that his training would be deadly if they failed, and both eagerly accepted.

After receiving her father's final letter, Jiang Ling relentlessly hunted Filth Demons until Si Shuo joined her and a high-priority order arrived from Si Chen to search the lower realms for time amber. Si Shuo led Jiang Ling toward the mountains to find a Demon Race Ancestral Court, while Taichu appeared at the scorched earth and watched them depart.

• Jiang Ling continued slaying Filth Demons in silence after reading the final letter from her father, Jiang Yuan.
• Si Shuo followed Jiang Ling and tried to persuade her to rest, but she held her saber to his neck and told him to scram.
• Jiang Ling and Si Shuo received Bai He's message that Si Chen had ordered the army to search Demon Race Ancestral Courts for time amber.
• Jiang Ling asked where to find the Ancestral Courts, and Si Shuo claimed his experience as Undying Mountain's only bona fide Ascension-er made him the right guide.
• Si Shuo led Jiang Ling toward the mountains, and Taichu appeared where they had been, watched their departure, then vanished.

Jiang Ling and Si Shuo searched the Wilds Desolation Realm for its Ancestral Court, and Si Shuo used his knowledge of Lower Realm demons to uncover its location. They headed for a great canyon, though Si Shuo’s boast about his past abruptly cooled Jiang Ling’s interest in him.

• Jiang Ling swept through the Wilds Desolation Realm while Si Shuo questioned demons and learned that the Ancestral Court was near Ten Thousand Demons City.
• Jiang Ling challenged Si Shuo for questioning demons through disguises instead of using Soul Search, and he explained why Lower Realm demons would resist or deceive him.
• Si Shuo compared the demons’ false directions and identified an unmarked great canyon as the Ancestral Court’s true location.
• Jiang Ling asked about Si Shuo’s time in the Lower Realm, and he proudly boasted about reaching the top of the Azure Profound Ranking and attracting many admirers.
• Jiang Ling flew toward the canyon without waiting for Si Shuo, and he called after her to slow down.