Recaps

Li Yang faced Ning Qingfeng after killing her mortalized body, Xiao Feng, and explained why he had acted without hesitation when she was held hostage. Ning Qingfeng spared him, recognized his blunt nature, and ended by inviting him to praise her beauty.

• Li Yang knelt before Ning Qingfeng and offered her the Phoenix Sword, apologizing for killing Xiao Feng.
• Ning Qingfeng rebuked Li Yang for ending her mortal transfiguration and demanded to know why he had killed her mortalized body.
• Li Yang explained that he struck to prevent someone important to him from suffering and said his choice had nothing to do with Xiao Feng's identity.
• Ning Qingfeng examined the Ning Lineage girl's memories, concluded Li Yang had acted without knowing or caring who Xiao Feng was, and called him a sword madman with fearsome potential.
• Li Yang asked Ning Qingfeng for a Second-Rank Nine-Pattern Spirit Sword if she wished to invest in him, then praised her as beautiful when she invited his frank opinion.

Ning Qingfeng tested Li Yang’s willingness to face death, then used her cultivation to resurrect the mortals killed by the evil fiends in Yongning Commandery. Despite Li Yang’s admiration, she killed him in divine flame to repay his killing of her mortalized body.

• Ning Qingfeng drew Li Yang into an illusion where he sacrificed himself rather than let an evil fiend use him to coerce his senior sister.
• After the illusion ended, Ning Qingfeng decided she had no right to punish Li Yang, then asked whether he blamed her for the mortals’ deaths.
• Ning Qingfeng used her phoenix nirvana immortal body to reverse karma and resurrect the dead mortals across Yongning Commandery.
• When Li Yang praised her compassion, Ning Qingfeng burned him to ashes, saying she had to kill him once for fairness.

After Ning Qingfeng’s intervention remade Li Yang’s body and greatly improved his cultivation aptitude, he woke in the Mystic Heaven Sword Sect and discovered he had reached the second layer of Foundation Establishment. He invited his enemies to fight him, then mistook his new junior sister Ning Xi for Ning Qingfeng and pleaded with her to stop haunting him.

• Li Yang sensed that Ning Qingfeng’s intervention had opened and remade his meridians, then advanced to the second layer of Foundation Establishment.
• Li Yang read his accumulated jade-slip messages, learned of the danger posed by his killings in Yongning Commandery, and invited his critics and enemies to challenge him in the sect’s Life-and-Death Arena.
• Li Yang received a message from his new junior sister, Ning Xi, and rushed to her treehouse after challenging her to a fight.
• Lu Feng arrived and rebuked Li Yang for frightening Ning Xi, then gave him sect robes and a direct disciple token.
• Lu Feng explained that Ning Xi belonged to the Ancient Immortal Ning Lineage and was not Ning Qingfeng’s incarnation, but Li Yang remained convinced she was Ning Qingfeng and begged her to stop haunting him.

After lighting their Soul Lamps, Li Yang and Ning Xi returned to Crane-Cry Peak, where Lu Feng announced an upcoming secret realm and arranged for Li Yang to enter under an assumed identity. Lu Feng also revealed that the realm may hold a slaughter Dao legacy and urged Li Yang to keep it from a powerful evil sword cultivator.

• Lu Feng took Li Yang and Ning Xi to the Fate Soul Hall, where they lit their Soul Lamps, then brought them back to Crane-Cry Peak to meet the other disciples.
• Ning Xinyao revealed that she had reached the Golden Core Realm through repeated cultivation cycles and teased Li Yang about their past interactions.
• Lu Feng announced that the Ancient Immortal Secret Realm would open in twenty-eight days and suppress entrants to mortal cultivation, but Crane-Cry Peak had no places left.
• Lu Feng arranged for Li Yang to take the vacant place belonging to Qin Feng and disguise himself as that Sect Master Peak disciple.
• After speaking with Li Yang alone, Lu Feng said the immortal likely cultivated the slaughter Dao and warned that an evil sword cultivator from the Xuanyuan Sword Sect, ranked first on Qian Province’s Golden Core Heavenly Prodigy Ranking, might pursue the legacy.

Li Yang disguised himself as Qin Feng and discovered that Qin Feng had been exploited and insulted by his senior sisters for Ye Zhiqiu’s sake. After reaching Qin Feng’s cave abode, Li Yang found that Qin Feng had even diverted its spiritual energy to herb gardens, then was accused of stealing Ye Zhiqiu’s sword.

• Li Yang arrived at Sect Master Peak disguised as Qin Feng, and Jiang Qingci demanded the premium Divine Origin Fruit he had failed to bring her.
• Jiang Qingci berated Li Yang and praised Ye Zhiqiu, while Li Yang realized Qin Feng had been giving her valuable herbs without receiving pills in return.
• Li Yang told Jiang Qingci not to forgive him and went to Qin Feng’s cave abode, where he discovered Qin Feng had diverted its spiritual energy to the herb gardens.
• Li Yang picked up a second-rank sword engraved with “Ye,” and Qin Feng’s third senior sister burst in, accusing him of stealing the sword forged for Ye Zhiqiu.
• Ye Zhiqiu acted wounded and urged his third senior sister to leave the sword with Li Yang, but she demanded that Li Yang return it and kneel to apologize.

Li Yang humiliated Third Senior Sister and Ye Zhiqiu, then nearly fought them to the death before Sect Master Ling Wujie intervened. Ling reforged Li Yang’s sword, and Li Yang left to face the challengers gathered at Duel Sword Peak.

• Li Yang mocked Third Senior Sister for wasting premium materials on a weak spirit sword and insulted her forging skills.
• Li Yang invited Ye Zhiqiu to kneel for an apology, then kicked him in the face and sent him crashing through trees.
• Third Senior Sister attacked Li Yang, who drew the sword and struck back with lethal force until Ling Wujie stopped them both.
• Ling Wujie refused to punish Li Yang, reforged Ye Zhiqiu’s sword into an eight-marking spirit sword, and told Li Yang about the death-match challengers.
• Ling Wujie told Third Senior Sister that he had saved her from Li Yang and hoped he would teach her and the other disciples the harshness of the world.
• Li Yang left as outside-sect prodigies gathered at Duel Sword Peak and demanded to fight him.

A cultivator from the Five Elements Dharma Palace came to the Mystic Heaven Sword Sect seeking revenge on Li Yang and humiliated the sect’s disciples in combat. Just as he prepared to leave after no one else stepped forward, Qin Feng entered the arena and challenged the visitors to the death.

• Outstanding talents from other sects arrived at the Mystic Heaven Sword Sect, demanding that Li Yang face them for killing one of their juniors.
• A Five Elements Dharma Palace cultivator defeated Wang Liexiao and Senior Brother Zhou, then taunted the Sword Cultivators and demanded Li Yang appear.
• Su Miao entered the arena, but the Five Elements Dharma Palace cultivator refused to fight her and mocked the sect’s male disciples for hiding.
• As the visiting cultivators began to leave, Qin Feng landed in the arena and declared that he had come to take all their lives.

Li Yang, posing as Qin Feng, provoked Chu Du and signed a life-and-death contract despite Su Miao’s attempts to stop him. As Chu Du attacked with his Five Organs Manifestation, a sword rang out, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Li Yang mocked Chu Du and used Qin Feng’s history with a mortal woman to insult the Five Elements Dharma Palace.
• Su Miao stepped in to shield Li Yang from Chu Du’s killing pressure, but Li Yang kicked her aside and told her to leave.
• Li Yang and Chu Du signed a life-and-death contract, and the arena’s formation enclosed them so no one could interfere.
• Chu Du summoned five elemental palms with his Prison-Suppressing Hand, while the onlookers expected Qin Feng to be overwhelmed.
• A piercing sword ring sounded as Chu Du’s attack closed in on Li Yang.

Li Yang fought Chu Du on the Life-and-Death Arena, seizing Chu Du’s flying sword and using it to take to the air. He Lu’s arrival revealed that Qin Feng had given his resources to his senior sisters, and Su Miao defended him as the fight continued.

• Li Yang split Chu Du’s Hell-Prison Hands, then intercepted Chu Du’s flying sword with his injured hand and refined it.
• Li Yang mounted the captured sword and flew, startling the onlookers with his growing aura.
• He Lu arrived and accused Qin Feng of stealing the sword she had forged for their youngest junior brother.
• Su Miao realized Qin Feng had given his resources to his senior sisters and defended his fight to protect the sect’s honor.
• A female cultivator asked whether Qin Feng had given away his resources and lacked a flying sword, and He Lu evaded the question.

Li Yang killed Chu Du and another visiting prodigy in the Life-and-Death Arena, then provoked the remaining challengers to keep fighting. As he recovered from his wounds, a rough-looking man entered the arena, and Li Yang identified him as a demon cultivator.

• Li Yang feigned weakness against Chu Du, then killed him and took his resources despite an elder's attempt to intervene.
• Li Yang rejected Su Miao's concern and taunted the visiting prodigies into challenging him.
• A luxurious, unnamed Golden Core cultivator challenged Li Yang and was split in two; Li Yang collected his resources and treated his wounds.
• Wang Liexiao reconsidered his belief that Inner Sword Cultivators were superior to Outer Sword Cultivators after witnessing Li Yang's resolve.
• A rough-looking man entered the arena to attack the wounded Li Yang, who recognized the man's demonic qi and declared his intent to kill demon cultivators.

Li Yang defeated and killed Yuan Sha, who had entered the arena to avenge his friend Xuan Shi, then challenged the remaining prodigies. As the crowd refused to fight, an enraged voice outside the Mystic Heaven Sword Sect accused the sect of killing another beloved disciple.

• Yuan Sha revealed his Hundred-Battle Demon Body and attacked Li Yang, declaring he would avenge Xuan Shi.
• Li Yang pierced Yuan Sha's defenses, and after a prolonged fight gained the advantage with his speed and swordsmanship.
• Yuan Sha pleaded not to become a trophy in a campaign against demons, but Li Yang explained why he believed the righteous path's rules restrained people while Demon Cultivators' sincerity could lead to chaos.
• Li Yang pierced Yuan Sha's chest and shredded his head, then challenged the other revenge-seeking prodigies, who suspected a trap and refused to fight.
• As Li Yang prepared to leave the arena, an enraged voice outside the Mystic Heaven Sword Sect accused it of killing another of the speaker's beloved disciples.

Li Yang defied the elders who came to the Mystic Heaven Sword Sect seeking revenge for the prodigies he killed, while the sect’s leaders defended him. The elders threatened him over the upcoming secret realm in Immortal Relic Province, and Li Yang eagerly anticipated meeting their descendants there.

• Elders of the slain prodigies confronted the Mystic Heaven Sword Sect, accused Li Yang of murdering their descendants, and demanded an explanation.
• Lu Feng defended Li Yang by citing the orders of the Dao Alliance and Sword Alliance, while the elders threatened the sect and warned Li Yang to conceal his abilities.
• Li Yang openly insulted the elders and their descendants, declared that the slain juniors deserved their deaths, and promised further revenge if anyone harmed him.
• An old woman threatened that Li Yang would be vulnerable in the upcoming secret realm in Immortal Relic Province, where grudges could be settled beyond the sect’s protection.
• Li Yang welcomed the prospect of meeting the descendants in the secret realm and cited the rule that grudges from within it could not be carried outside.

After Li Yang returned to Sect Master Peak wounded from Duel Sword Peak, he rejected his senior sisters and confronted Ye Zhiqiu over his attempts to give them resources. Several women reconsidered their treatment of Li Yang, while Ye Zhiqiu’s system warned him that he had three months to conquer a bound fairy or be erased.

• Li Yang returned to Sect Master Peak to recover, but refused to let Su Miao and the four other women enter and accused them of taking his tribute for granted.
• Su Miao reminded Jiang Qingci, He Lu, Du Tinglan, and Mu Ling'er how they had benefited from Li Yang’s resources while favoring Ye Zhiqiu.
• Ye Zhiqiu arrived with gifts for the women, prompting Li Yang to threaten to kill him if he insulted him again.
• Du Tinglan and Mu Ling'er returned Ye Zhiqiu’s gifts and acknowledged their debt to Li Yang, while Su Miao warned Ye Zhiqiu to avoid provoking him.
• Jiang Qingci and He Lu left with Ye Zhiqiu, and his system reported declining favorability scores and ordered him to conquer one bound fairy within three months or be erased.

Li Yang agreed to keep Qin Feng as his servant while continuing to impersonate him, after Qin Ge handed over Qin Feng’s soul blood and gifts for the secret realm. Left outside the cabin, Qin Feng learned what Li Yang had done under his identity and began questioning what it meant to be a Sword Cultivator.

• Li Yang met Qin Ge, Qin Feng’s father, who asked him to keep Qin Feng close and teach him how to conduct himself, especially around female cultivators.
• Li Yang demanded a way to control Qin Feng, and Qin Ge gave him Qin Feng’s soul blood, a Hundred-Flower Mask, and a Spatial-Shift Talisman.
• After Qin Ge and Ling Wujie left, Li Yang slapped Qin Feng into the Spirit Herb Garden and warned him to behave like a servant, threatening to kill him with the soul blood.
• Qin Feng asked sect disciples what Li Yang had done under his identity and heard them praise the supposed change in Qin Feng.
• Qin Feng recalled his childhood question about what a Sword Cultivator was and began asking himself the same question again.

Li Yang traveled with the Mystic Heaven Sword Sect toward the secret realm in Immortal Relic Province and met Yan Zhaoxi, a gifted sword cultivator whose proposed match with him was rejected by his master. When Ning Xinyao asked him to shield Ning Xi from her suitors, Li Yang refused angrily, and another cultivator stepped forward to help them.

• Li Yang and Qin Feng joined the Mystic Heaven Sword Sect expedition, which traveled through Mysterious Heaven City to Kunyuan Immortal City.
• At Kunyuan Immortal City, the sect encountered the Green Lotus Sword Sect, whose elder proposed pairing Yan Zhaoxi with Lu Feng's disciple Li Yang, but Lu Feng claimed Li Yang's aptitude was poor and declined.
• Li Yang admired Yan Zhaoxi's immaculate sword heart and wondered why Lu Feng had rejected the proposal.
• Ning Xinyao and Ning Xi asked Li Yang to act as Ning Xi's shield against her suitors, but he cursed at them and refused.
• Ning Xinyao stormed off while Ning Xi watched Li Yang with interest, and an unidentified cultivator called after them and offered to help.

Ning Xi hired Ye Zhiqiu as her shield, but quickly ignored him and sought out Li Yang instead. After explaining Yan Zhaoxi’s ruthless sword Dao, she insisted on following Li Yang, who reluctantly agreed because he owed her ancestor a favor.

• Ning Xi gave Ye Zhiqiu a spirit vein to act as her shield, and he accepted while hoping to win her over.
• Ning Xi rebuffed Ye Zhiqiu and eagerly approached Li Yang to ask about Yan Zhaoxi’s potential marriage to Qin Feng.
• Li Yang dismissed Ning Xi’s question, but she explained that Yan Zhaoxi’s ruthless sword Dao would require her to enter love and then sever it.
• Ning Xi told Li Yang she wanted to follow him, citing her ancestor’s instructions and his debt to her; Li Yang reluctantly agreed.
• Li Yang suggested Ning Xi keep using Ye Zhiqiu to attract trouble, and Ning Xi reacted with displeasure at his implication that Ye Zhiqiu was frightening.

Ye Zhiqiu tried to prove himself as Ning Xi’s shield, but his wager with Sang Yan left her displeased and ended with Sang Yan calling him trash. The group was left in Kunyuan Immortal City after Ye Zhiqiu’s lifesaving treasure spared him from Sang Yan’s punch.

• Ye Zhiqiu offered Li Yang resources while putting on a tearful display, but Ning Xi criticized his fragility and Jiang Qingci and He Lu defended him.
• A fiery-haired young man named Sang Yan approached Ning Xi, and Ye Zhiqiu stepped in to claim she was not interested in him.
• Sang Yan challenged Ye Zhiqiu to take one punch, and Ye Zhiqiu accepted without asking Ning Xi, causing her conquest progress with him to fall by 30%.
• Sang Yan matched Ye Zhiqiu’s Foundation Establishment level and attacked with Solar True Fire, while Ye Zhiqiu tried to strike the weak point of his phantom Fire Mulberry Tree.
• Sang Yan detonated the phantom tree to strengthen his punch, but Ye Zhiqiu’s lifesaving treasure blocked the danger before Sang Yan pulled back and called him trash.

Li Yang traveled with the Mystic Heaven Sword Sect to Immortal Relic Province, where cultivators prepared to enter an unknown immortal cave abode that would suppress them to mortals. As the secret realm opened, Ning Xi clung to Li Yang, provoking Sang Yan and a golden dragon, and Li Yang challenged them to face him inside.

• Ling Wujie slapped Ye Zhiqiu and stopped his quarrel with Sang Yan, while Ning Xi ignored Sang Yan's advances and meditated beside Li Yang.
• The interprovince formation teleported the cultivators to Immortal Relic Province, where the Mystic Heaven Ancestor met other Sword Cultivators and proposed that their juniors get acquainted.
• Li Yang avoided Ning Xi and the gathered sword prodigies, refusing their challenges and quietly cultivating until the Xuanyuan Sword Sect arrived.
• The secret realm's opening was announced, and cultivators learned that those at spirit transformation or above could not enter and that everyone inside would be reduced to mortals.
• Ning Xi grabbed Li Yang's arm to enter the secret realm with him, and Sang Yan and a golden dragon threatened him; Li Yang vowed to slaughter them inside.

Li Yang and his companions entered the secret realm, rebuilt their cultivation, and encountered a cultivator who tried to lure them into a trap. After Li Yang killed him, the realm revealed its slaughter-based inheritance, and Ning Xi’s soul-searching uncovered that natives could also claim it by killing trial participants.

• Li Yang, Ning Xi, and Qin Feng restored their cultivation after the realm stripped it away, then set out to explore.
• A middle-aged cultivator asked them to help defend Rockhold Commandery, but Li Yang killed him after sensing his killing intent and avoided a poison trap on the corpse.
• A rule of the secret realm marked Li Yang with a number and announced that killing would grant greater power, while warning him not to become a slave to slaughter.
• Ning Xi searched the cultivator’s remnant soul, and Li Yang killed his demonic cultivator accomplices using the information she uncovered.
• Ning Xi learned that natives could inherit trial participants’ abilities by killing them, leading Li Yang to predict that more than half of the participants might die.

The Myriad Venom Dynasty overwhelmed the Foundation Establishment battlefield and trapped the Sword Alliance Envoys near Rockhold Commandery. Li Yang arrived with Qin Feng and charged into the battle, his sword sounding a call for a counterattack.

• A Nascent Soul cultivator of the Myriad Venom Dynasty argued that the trial participants would help his dynasty conquer the Heavenly Origin Dynasty and feed his Soul Banner.
• Trial participants and demonic cultivators converged on the Sword Alliance Envoys, whose leader warned that they would be killed if surrounded.
• A black-robed formation master sealed the sword cultivators inside a barrier, and over a hundred Myriad Venom Dynasty cultivators attacked them.
• The Myriad Venom Dynasty drove the Foundation Establishment defenders back to Rockhold Commandery, while a cultivator carrying a Soul Banner slipped through the pass.
• Li Yang cut down the Soul Banner wielder, grabbed Qin Feng, and charged toward the bloody battlefield as the defenders saw him arrive.

Li Yang fought through the Myriad Venom Dynasty’s forces and took control of the Ten Directions Sword Formation to rescue the trapped Sword Cultivators. He led them in a counterattack, but a Nascent Soul True Person ordered the entire enemy force to strike them at once.

• Li Yang charged into the pursuing army, killed more than a dozen cultivators, and then rode his sword toward the trapped Sword Cultivators.
• A Demon Cultivator recognized the danger of Li Yang entering the sword formation and shouted for the others to stop him, but the enemies continued pursuing him.
• Li Yang proved his identity with Senior Zi Chen’s Sword Alliance token, received the formation flag, and took control of the Ten Directions Sword Formation.
• Li Yang directed the Sword Cultivators to use sword talismans against the enemy’s weakest side, then led the formation through the attackers and killed more than a hundred cultivators.
• The Myriad Venom Dynasty’s Nascent Soul True Person ordered everyone to abandon the trapping formation and attack the Sword Cultivators together.

Li Yang led the Ten Directions Sword Formation to break free from the Myriad Venom Dynasty’s confinement array and devastate its forces before retreating to protect the Heavenly Origin Dynasty’s cultivators. With his spiritual power nearly exhausted, he discovered that killing intent could sustain his attacks, then flew back into battle with Ning Xi carrying him on her sword.

• Li Yang lured the Myriad Venom Dynasty’s attacks toward a weak point in the confinement array, then led the Ten Directions Sword Formation through the breach.
• Li Yang’s formation killed hundreds of Myriad Venom Dynasty cultivators, halting their pursuit and astonishing the fleeing Heavenly Origin Dynasty cultivators.
• Li Yang retreated with the formation, urged the others to protect the mortals, and charged back alone when no one volunteered to join him.
• Li Yang used the killing intent he had accumulated from the slaughter in place of his dwindling spiritual power.
• Ning Xi joined Li Yang, carried him on her flying sword, and told him she trusted he would survive.

Li Yang and Ning Xi held off the Myriad Venom Dynasty’s Foundation Establishment army while Li Yang cultivated through battle and rallied the Heavenly Origin Dynasty’s forces to counterattack. With victory on the Foundation Establishment battlefield assured, Li Yang took up Ning Qingfeng’s Phoenix Sword and prepared to challenge a Golden Core cultivator.

• Ning Xi used escape talismans to carry Li Yang through the enemy army as he killed with his sword and killing intent while cultivating.
• Li Yang’s assault pinned down the Myriad Venom Dynasty’s Foundation Establishment forces, allowing Su Hen, Qin Feng, and the Heavenly Origin Dynasty’s cultivators to join the counterattack.
• Qin Feng abandoned his obsession with his five senior sisters and took Li Yang as his role model.
• Li Yang cultivated to the seventh layer of Foundation Establishment over several days, and the Heavenly Origin Dynasty gained the advantage on the battlefield.
• Ning Xi revealed Ning Qingfeng’s Phoenix Sword, explaining that it had become eager to join Li Yang’s slaughter.
• Li Yang and Ning Xi grasped the Phoenix Sword together and turned toward the Golden Core battlefield, ready to fight a Golden Core cultivator.

Li Yang turned the battle for the Heavenly Origin Dynasty by killing scores of enemies and claiming first place on the Slaughter Rankings. After receiving a token and directions to the next battlefield, he set out for Heavenly Spirit Commandery with Ning Xi, Qin Feng, and a group of sword cultivators.

• Li Yang guided Ning Xi through the golden core battle, helping her kill an enemy while she became increasingly affected by fighting at his side.
• The Myriad Venom Dynasty's nascent soul True Person ordered a retreat, but the Heavenly Origin Dynasty's nascent soul True Person destroyed his body, and Li Yang slew many more fleeing cultivators.
• The cultivators discovered that Qin Feng ranked first on the Slaughter Rankings with 478,000 points, while the second-ranked name was Kill.
• At Rockhold Commandery's fortress, a nascent soul True Person thanked Li Yang, gave him a token, and directed him toward Heavenly Spirit Commandery to confront the Spirit Devouring Cult.
• Su Hen and more than thirty sword cultivators asked to travel with Li Yang, and he agreed to bring them aboard the Phoenix Sword.

Su Miao and the women she had rescued fled the Spirit Devouring Cult, but the pursuing fiends surrounded their flying boat. Ye Zhiqiu abandoned them, leaving Su Miao and the others at the Dual Cultivation Demon Scion’s mercy until a mysterious sword wielder arrived.

• Su Miao led the fleeing women toward Heavenly Spirit Commandery while the group argued over Ye Zhiqiu’s reckless actions and the deaths of two senior brothers.
• Ye Zhiqiu complained to his system about his defeat, and the system told him to complete missions before expecting combat rewards.
• The purple-haired Dual Cultivation Demon Scion intercepted the flying boat and claimed the women, prompting Su Miao to attack him with Ye Zhiqiu.
• Ye Zhiqiu activated an escape talisman and fled instead of fighting, and the Demon Scion quickly defeated Su Miao.
• As the women wept and the Demon Scion threatened them, a sharp sword whistle sounded and an icy voice warned that anyone who came to save them would be slaughtered.