Recaps

Chu Mu entered Li Yang’s Sea of Consciousness to seize his enormous Nascent Soul, but Li Yang detonated the Immortal-Slaying Sword Replica and destroyed them both. The Nine Provinces Heavenly Dao sealed the Great World of Ten Thousand Immortals as Li Yang’s Realm Tomb, leaving his allies to mourn him.

• After the Divine Punishment Thunderbolt destroyed Chu Mu’s system, Chu Mu charged into Li Yang’s Purple Mansion to claim his enormous Nascent Soul.
• Li Yang confronted Chu Mu’s will and detonated the Immortal-Slaying Sword Replica inside his Sea of Consciousness.
• The blast erased Chu Mu and destroyed Li Yang’s remaining body and Nascent Soul.
• The Nine Provinces Heavenly Dao sent the fading Nascent Soul into the Great World of Ten Thousand Immortals, evacuated its inhabitants, and sealed the world as Li Yang’s Realm Tomb.
• Yan Zhaoxi mourned Li Yang and reflected on how he had fulfilled the Ruthless Dao by loving the world yet accepting death for it.
• The woman in the golden dress revealed herself in the Primordial Immortal Palace’s Inheritance Grounds, then deliberately let herself be transported out of the sealed world.

After Li Yang died killing Chu Mu, cultivators across the Nine Provinces and Demon Savage Prefecture mourned him and vowed to carry on his work. Ning Qingfeng listened to Li Yang’s final message, in which he confessed his love and his longing to hold her again.

• The Dao Alliance leader showed an image of Li Yang killing Chu Mu and honored him for saving the Nine Provinces.
• Su Hen, Qin Feng, Lin He, Tu Shan Jiaojiao, Wang Dabao, and Lu Qingqiu mourned Li Yang and pledged to uphold his ideals.
• Shen Yaoyin faced the hostility of orthodox factions, while Xuanyuan Sword Sect leaders confirmed that Li Yang’s Soul Lamp had gone out.
• The Sword Alliance Sword Chief and other Sword Immortals set out on a demon-slaying campaign and moved against the Heavenly Retribution Dao Sect.
• Xuanyao renamed herself You Yiyang, named Black Serpent You Siyang, and departed with Black Tortoise and Xuanyou.
• Ning Qingfeng listened to Li Yang’s jade-slip message, where he confessed that he loved her and wished to hold her again.

Ten years after Li Yang’s sacrifice, the Demon Savage Continent became Demon Savage Province and the Nine Provinces were renamed the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, while the Sword Alliance began a sixty-year campaign against evil fiends. The chapter follows Qin Feng and Su Hen’s later lives and leaves both of them still honoring Li Yang and wondering when he will return.

• The Dao Alliance incorporated the Demon Savage Continent as Demon Savage Province and named the united realm the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
• The Dao Alliance posthumously honored Li Yang as the Demon-Slaying Sword Lord, and the Sword Alliance launched a sixty-year crackdown on evil fiends and their supporters.
• Qin Feng advanced through the Xuanyuan Sword Sect, married Du Tinglan, Jiang Qingci, He Lu, Mu Ling'er, and Su Miao, and later became sect master of the Mystic Heaven Sword Sect.
• Five hundred years after Li Yang’s fall, Qin Feng offered the severed heads of over a hundred evil fiends at the Yang Immortal Abyss and asked when Li Yang would return.
• Su Hen became a powerful Sword Alliance official and sect deputy master, struggled against corruption among supposedly righteous Dao lineages, and asked whether Li Yang could ever return.

At Lu Qingqiu and Wang Dabao’s union ceremony, Yan Zhaoxi rejected a suitor and revealed that she intended to resurrect Li Yang. Lu Jun opened Ten Thousand Sword Mountain to the guests, and a mysterious rogue cultivator gained a sword’s recognition.

• Lu Qingqiu and Wang Dabao held their union ceremony a hundred years after Li Yang’s death, drawing guests from across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
• At the banquet, Yan Zhaoxi refused marriage-minded visitors and told the Heavenly Balance Sword Sect’s Deputy Sect Master that Li Yang lived on in her Dao; she showed him the nascent soul fragment she hoped to use to resurrect Li Yang.
• Lu Jun announced that Ten Thousand Sword Mountain would open to cultivators below Human Immortal Supreme, and many guests entered the inheritance grounds.
• After several days, Crown Champion and many other cultivators had failed to claim an inheritance, but a mysterious rogue cultivator won a sword’s recognition.

Ying Tian Ce tried to claim the Xuanyuan Sword but was maimed by the lingering sword intent Li Yang had left within it. The sword rejected Ying Tian Ce and waited for Li Yang’s return.

• A sword cultivator told Yan Zhaoxi that a keen-edged sword had recognized its master and recalled how it had declared Li Yang was alive in the Nine Provinces.
• Ying Tian Ce, the Ninth Prince of the Purple Tenuity Immortal Dynasty, climbed the central Sword Mountain and reached for the Xuanyuan Sword.
• The Xuanyuan Sword’s fused sword intent shredded Ying Tian Ce’s arm, and Lu Jun explained that the power belonged to Li Yang.
• Yan Zhaoxi said Li Yang had defeated even enemies from above the heavens, leaving cultivators to question how powerful he had been.
• The Xuanyuan Sword rejected Ying Tian Ce and remained at Ten Thousand Sword Mountain, waiting for Li Yang to return.

Five hundred years after Li Yang’s death, Ning Qingfeng led the powerful Ning Lineage while grieving for him. She rejected a marriage alliance with Feng Changge despite the promised support of Demon Savage Province, and vowed to find another way to secure her lineage’s future.

• Ning Qingfeng returned from seclusion as leader of the Female Cultivators Alliance and listened to Li Yang’s jade slip, mourning him and recalling the prosperity he had brought the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
• A Peng Clan ancestor introduced Feng Changge, the Upper Realm Phoenix Clan’s young lord, who proposed marrying Ning Qingfeng in exchange for Demon Savage Province’s support in her bid to lead the Dao Alliance.
• The Peng Clan ancestor demanded that Ning Qingfeng bear Feng Changge’s child to secure their alliance, and she ordered them to leave.
• Feng Changge presented a jade slip from Ancestor Xiao Ling, who appeared after White Phoenix Ancestor opened it and urged Ning Qingfeng to accept the marriage for the Ning Lineage’s prosperity.
• Ning Qingfeng refused Ancestor Xiao Ling’s demand and threatened to resign rather than accept a forced marriage; Feng Changge departed, saying he expected her to change her mind.
• White Phoenix Ancestor warned Ning Qingfeng that the refusal could cost her political support, but Ning Qingfeng insisted that Li Yang remained alive in her heart and promised to find another way to keep the Ning Lineage strong.

A thousand years after Li Yang's fall, Lin He and Tu Shan Jiaojiao brought their daughter Lin Zhaozhao to the Demon Race gathering, where she hoped to qualify for the Ancestor Blood Pool. There, they reunited with old friends and learned that Xuanyou had lost his wealth in a scam but gained custody of his child, who faced hostility from two other youths.

• Lin He agreed to accompany Tu Shan Jiaojiao and Lin Zhaozhao to the Demon Savage Province's Ancestor Blood Pool gathering so they could see old friends and investigate the plot that had once framed them.
• Lin Zhaozhao said she expected to place among the top hundred contenders, and the family entered the Myriad Races Beast Arena to seek her qualification.
• You Yiyang and the Black Serpent greeted the family, and the Black Serpent gave Lin Zhaozhao an immortal sword.
• Lin He was surprised to see Xuanyou arrive with a child, and Tu Shan Jiaojiao learned that an impure-blooded female Black Tortoise had scammed Xuanyou out of his resources, leaving him custody of the child.
• Xuanyou's child called the female Black Tortoise Mother, but she rejected the child, while her two other sons threatened him.

Xuanyang and Lin Zhaozhao fought together in the Myriad Demon Battlefield, were eliminated, and still qualified for brief cultivation in the Ancestor Blood Pool. There, a true dragon invited them to enter the sealed Great World of Ten Thousand Immortals, leaving them with a chance to pursue its hidden opportunities.

• Xuanyang’s maternal half brothers and their allies targeted him in the battlefield, while Lin Zhaozhao stood by him and fought off their attackers.
• A Vermilion Bird attacked Lin Zhaozhao, and Xuanyang and Lin Zhaozhao were defeated and teleported out, though they earned places in the Ancestor Blood Pool.
• Xuanyou angrily confronted the elders over Xuanyang’s treatment and explained that Xuanyang’s cultivation resources had been taken for his younger brothers.
• Xuanyang and Lin Zhaozhao entered the Ancestor Blood Pool together and began sensing the innate demon arts in their bloodlines.
• A true dragon invited Xuanyang and Lin Zhaozhao to join him in entering the Great World of Ten Thousand Immortals and told them to meet him at the Great Treasure Restaurant if they accepted.

After Li Yang died destroying Chu Mu, Brilliant Dawn found his primordial dawnfire above a Fusang Tree sapling and used its Vast Heaven World and Life Nectar to nurture a faint trace of his will. A thousand years later, Li Yang’s origin had formed inside a ripened fruit as an innate pure yang dao embryo, while Brilliant Dawn had nearly spent itself sustaining him.

• After Li Yang and Chu Mu perished, Brilliant Dawn wandered the Great World of Ten Thousand Immortals seeking immortal veins to consume.
• On the Blazing Continent, Brilliant Dawn found a Fusang Tree sapling bearing Li Yang’s primordial dawnfire and poured Life Nectar over its roots.
• Brilliant Dawn broke the sapling’s restrictive seal, joined its roots to the Vast Heaven World, and guarded it as Li Yang’s dao rhythm gathered into a fruit containing a faint strand of his will.
• Over the following centuries, Brilliant Dawn nourished the fruit with the origin source of its pure yang immortal vein as the Fusang Tree grew and the sealed world fell into darkness.
• After a thousand years, the fruit ripened into an adult-sized form containing Li Yang’s fully formed innate pure yang dao embryo, while Brilliant Dawn dwindled to a dim, wavering remnant.

A group of Heavenly Prodigies entered the sealed Great World of Ten Thousand Immortals using the Escape One Compass, while Demon Race prodigies forced another way inside with a Sin Dragon blade. Both groups made it through the Heavenly Dao’s barriers, though the first group had only three months before its escape formation activated.

• A thousand years after Li Yang’s death, the Heavenly Dao’s chains still sealed the Great World of Ten Thousand Immortals, and beings above Spirit Transformation could not approach it safely.
• Xie led Heavenly Prodigies aboard the Escape One Compass and used its hidden seam to slip through the chains.
• Xie warned the group that their World-Breaking Teleportation Formation would activate in three months and that anyone who lost their token would be trapped inside forever.
• A true dragon led Demon Race Heavenly Prodigies, including Lin Zhaozhao and Xuanyang, into the mouth of the Chaos beast.
• The true dragon swung the World-Breaking Blade from inside Chaos, striking the world barrier and making a fissure through which Chaos entered before the Heavenly Dao’s chains could close in.

Lin Zhaozhao and Xuanyang fled a group of Demon Race Heavenly Prodigies who sought to kill them, and reached the Fusang Divine Tree at the heart of the Blazing Continent. There, Lin Zhaozhao recognized the human inside its ripe Golden Crow Fruit as Li Yang, the supposedly dead Demon-Slaying Sword Lord.

• Xuanqing and Xuanzi accused Xuanyang of knowing the location of hidden inheritances and rallied Demon Race Heavenly Prodigies to attack him and Lin Zhaozhao.
• A true dragon refused to get involved, so Lin Zhaozhao used a lifesaving Sword Talisman to escape with Xuanyang as their pursuers gave chase.
• Lin Zhaozhao and Xuanyang burned through her lifesaving treasures while trying to reach help, but three Sword Envoys they encountered fled from the pursuing Demon Race group.
• With Lin Zhaozhao near death, they reached the Fusang Divine Tree and saw a ripe Golden Crow Fruit containing a human cultivator.
• Lin Zhaozhao recognized the cultivator inside the fruit as Li Yang from the Recording Stone her father treasured.