Recaps

Li Yang faced the Demon Race prodigies again after killing Taiyin Dragon and White Marsh, while Ning Qingfeng openly staked her claim to him. After eating Wang Dabao’s pure-yang dishes, Li Yang struggled to suppress the resulting heat, and Ning Qingfeng promised to help him cool it once the remaining enemies were dead.

• Yinglong resolved that Li Yang had to die, while the Nine Provinces prodigies celebrated Li Yang’s victories over Taiyin Dragon and White Marsh.
• Ning Qingfeng flew to Li Yang and told him not to risk further injury, and Li Yang vowed to slaughter Yinglong’s descendants for the humiliation Yinglong had inflicted on her.
• The Nine Provinces cultivators speculated about Li Yang and Ning Qingfeng’s relationship as Ning Qingfeng’s actions made her claim on him clear.
• Wang Dabao sent Li Yang dishes made from White Marsh, and Li Yang ate them, triggering a surge of yang energy that made him flush and burn.
• Ning Qingfeng taught Li Yang a Calming Mind Mantra and promised to cool his fire after he killed every remaining enemy.

Li Yang killed a Suanni in the Black Tortoise Battlefield, then challenged the Mahayana-stage Yinglong, who refused to enter despite Li Yang’s taunts. Ning Qingfeng goaded the Demon Race into sending more fighters, and Yinglong finally threw another demon into the arena.

• Yinglong offered three days in the Ancestor Blood Pool to whoever killed Li Yang, and a Suanni charged into the battlefield.
• Li Yang killed the Suanni after thirty exchanges, though its Southern Bright Li Fire burned away his Treasure Robe.
• Ning Qingfeng covered Li Yang with mist and challenged the Demon Race prodigies to keep fighting instead of fleeing.
• Li Yang defended Ning Qingfeng and challenged Yinglong to a fight, but Yinglong refused to enter the battlefield.
• Yinglong grabbed a Demon Race prodigy and hurled them into the battlefield, ordering the demons to kill Li Yang even if they had to sacrifice their lives.

Li Yang won three more battles but left the final match open so the Nine Provinces could keep fighting tiebreakers and kill the remaining Demon Savage prodigies. Ning Xinyao entered the arena to take the death slot, and Yinglong ordered Xuanyou to kill her and shake Li Yang’s Dao heart.

• Li Yang defeated three more opponents, leaving only the fair-skinned youth, whose bone age exceeded ten thousand years, to represent the Demon Savage Continent.
• Li Yang walked out of the arena rather than fight the last opponent, explaining to Ning Qingfeng and Yinglong that he would not let the contest end while Demon Savage prodigies remained.
• Ning Xinyao volunteered to enter the final match, despite the risk that losing would force her to restart her arduous cultivation from scratch.
• Ning Xinyao entered the Black Tortoise Battlefield, and Yinglong ordered Xuanyou to kill her to disrupt Li Yang’s Dao heart.

Ning Xinyao unleashed her life and nine-turn Dao foundation in a final sword strike against the Dark Tortoise, breaching his seemingly invincible defenses. She died after carving a mark in his shell, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Xuanyou revealed his enormous Dark Tortoise form and withdrew into his shell, intending to outlast Ning Xinyao.
• Ning Xinyao struck the Dark Tortoise with the nine-layered Rebirth Sword Song, but his time-wreathed shell dispersed the attack and hurled her away.
• Ning Xinyao burned her life origin, cultivation, physique, and nine layers of Dao foundation to perform Nine Turns Returning as One.
• Ning Xinyao’s final sword cleaved the Dark Tortoise’s river of time and left a shallow sword mark in his shell.
• Ning Xinyao began to dissolve after the strike, and the Dark Tortoise swallowed her before she could finish speaking.

After Ning Xinyao died, Li Yang entered the Black Tortoise Battlefield and killed the Azure Thunder True Dragon, then challenged Yinglong to fight. Yinglong refused and sent another offspring into the battlefield.

• Li Yang charged into the Black Tortoise Battlefield after Ning Xinyao's death and drew the Qianyang Core Sword to face Yinglong.
• Yinglong ignored pleas to spare his remaining prodigies and threw the Azure Thunder True Dragon into the battlefield.
• The Azure Thunder True Dragon burned his life origin and fought Li Yang with tribulation thunder, but Li Yang decapitated him and destroyed his demon nascent soul.
• Li Yang condemned the Azure Thunder True Dragon's belief in the strong devouring the weak, then challenged Yinglong to answer for Ning Xinyao's death.
• Yinglong refused to fight Li Yang and sent his second offspring into the battlefield.

After killing the Seven Sons of Yinglong, Li Yang endured a series of suicidal attacks from the Demon Race prodigies and defeated the Blood Qilin, who had fused with an Immortal Dao Sin Dragon Bone. The explosion left Li Yang near death, and Xuanyou entered the battlefield as the Demon Savage Continent’s final fighter.

• Li Yang killed all Seven Sons of Yinglong, while the remaining Demon Race prodigies refused to fight until a Demon Race Supreme promised to petition for their resurrection if the continent won.
• The Demon Race prodigies charged Li Yang with suicidal attacks, detonating themselves in attempts to leave him gravely wounded.
• The Blood Qilin unleashed its blood energy and fused with an Immortal Dao Sin Dragon Bone, losing control and attacking Li Yang before the fifteen-minute interval ended.
• Li Yang defeated the Blood Qilin, which separated from the bone and detonated itself with it; Li Yang survived the blast using Ning Xi’s defensive talisman and his sword.
• Yinglong sent Xuanyou into the battlefield to face the badly injured Li Yang, who declared that he would end the demons’ ambitions with his sword.

Li Yang recovered through his nirvana mark and wounded Black Tortoise, but Black Tortoise called on the battlefield’s power to make himself nearly invulnerable. As Li Yang refused to make peace, Black Tortoise returned Ning Xinyao in a sphere of vital essence.

• Xuanyou proposed peace to Li Yang, who rejected his offer and prepared to fight.
• Li Yang activated his nirvana mark, restoring his body and strength enough to challenge Black Tortoise.
• Li Yang combined the Qianyang Core Sword with the Slaughter Sword Core’s charged strike and carved a deep scar into Black Tortoise’s shell.
• Black Tortoise resonated with the Black Tortoise Battlefield and summoned its ancient power to strengthen his defenses, alarming the Nine Provinces camp.
• Li Yang threatened Black Tortoise and the Demon Savage Continent, refused to make peace, and sensed powerful Sword Envoys arriving at the Ancient Immortal Ning Lineage.
• Black Tortoise opened his mouth and released Ning Xinyao inside a sphere of vital essence.

Li Yang learned that Xuanyou had sought peace, but the Nine Provinces' powerful leaders had used the prodigy battle to prepare for war against the Demon Savage Continent. Xuanyou surrendered his soul blood to Li Yang, and the Sword Alliance's Sword Chief arrived to confront Yinglong and the Demon Immortal Supremes.

• The Black Tortoise restored his human form and used his life essence to keep Ning Xinyao alive, while Xuanyou explained that she had chosen to resist despite his offer of a way to survive.
• Li Yang realized Xuanyou had not intended to harm him, but told him the Dao Alliance planned to use the deaths of the prodigies to incite war.
• Li Yang offered Xuanyou a chance to live if he surrendered his soul blood before the Nine Provinces' forces arrived.
• Xuanyou gave Li Yang a drop of soul blood, and the Black Tortoise Battlefield's protection over him disappeared.
• Yinglong tried to flee, but a mighty sword severed one of his wings and forced him back.
• The Sword Alliance's Sword Chief arrived atop a colossal sword and accused Yinglong of scheming against the Nine Provinces with a false roster of contestants.

The Sword Chief arrived to confront the Demon Savage Continent’s delegation, but after Li Yang won the contest of prodigies, the Nine Provinces chose to honor the original agreement rather than declare war. The Sword Chief insisted Yinglong must die, and Li Yang offered to kill him himself.

• The Sword Chief sealed the Ning Lineage with the Sword Alliance’s formation as three Demon Immortal Supremes prepared to fight.
• A golden Communication Jade Slip arrived, and the Sword Chief learned that Li Yang had defeated the Demon Savage Continent’s prodigies.
• The Sword Chief let the three Demon Immortal Supremes leave and said the Demon Savage Continent had lost its claim to the hundred-thousand-li territory.
• The Demon Immortal Supremes protested when the Sword Chief refused to release Yinglong, arguing that killing their delegation’s leader would destroy any chance of peace.
• Li Yang called out from the Black Tortoise Battlefield and asked to kill Yinglong because he had hurt and insulted someone Li Yang cared about.

Li Yang challenged Yinglong to a deathmatch to avenge Ning Qingfeng, and the young Sword Chief arranged for them to fight in the Black Tortoise Battlefield. Yinglong entered the arena, where Li Yang prepared to make him pay for injuring someone he cared about.

• Li Yang challenged Yinglong to a third fight to the death, and Ning Qingfeng and the White Phoenix Ancestor recognized his devotion to her.
• The young Sword Chief warned Li Yang about Yinglong’s strength, then agreed to let Li Yang fight him while the Demon Immortals promised not to use the result to provoke conflict.
• Yinglong entered the Black Tortoise Battlefield and tried to seize it and take Li Yang hostage, but the young Sword Chief sealed the arena off from the outside.
• Xuanyou offered to take Li Yang to the Nine Provinces camp to have Ning Qingfeng treated, but Li Yang drew the Qianyang Core Sword and prepared to fight Yinglong.

Li Yang used Xuanyou and the Black Tortoise Battlefield’s protection to fight Yinglong Chen Geng at a decisive advantage. As Chen Geng was badly wounded, the young Sword Chief challenged the Demon Immortals, and dozens of Sword Dao Figures arrived at the Ning Lineage.

• Li Yang bound Xuanyou to him with a master-servant contract, and the battlefield equalized their cultivation with Yinglong’s at the peak of the Spirit Transformation realm.
• Xuanyou summoned the ancient Black Tortoise will to protect Li Yang, who refused Yinglong’s demand for a fair duel.
• The young Sword Chief and Ning Qingfeng watched as Li Yang attacked Chen Geng, while the White Phoenix Ancestor urged Ning Qingfeng to have a child with Li Yang.
• Li Yang charged Chen Geng with his sword, cut off his tail, and warned him he would meet the same fate as his children.
• The young Sword Chief threatened the three Demon Immortals when the Nine-Tailed Female Demon Immortal protested Li Yang’s unfair advantage.
• Dozens of Sword Dao Figures descended upon the Ning Lineage, and one declared Chen Geng the last Yinglong.

More than twenty Human Immortal Realm sword immortals revealed that they had exterminated the Yinglong Clan, forcing the Demon Immortals to flee while Li Yang continued defeating Chen Geng. Chen Geng summoned the Ink Qilin, whose voice identified him as a true immortal from the Upper Realm.

• Ancestor Canyang announced that the Nine Provinces' sword immortals had wiped out the Yinglong Clan, and Ancestor Rising Sun threatened the Demon Savage Continent with further destruction.
• The young Sword Chief explained that the Nine Provinces knew about the demons' plan to seize the territory and declared that the Nine Provinces had won.
• The three Demon Immortals fled after the young Sword Chief released the sword formation, leaving Chen Geng imprisoned with Li Yang.
• Li Yang continued wounding Chen Geng, who summoned a black Ink Qilin sculpture and begged his lord to kill Li Yang.
• The Ink Qilin came to life, released a supreme aura, and spoke as a true immortal from the Upper Realm.

Li Yang killed Yinglong in the Black Tortoise Battlefield after the ink-black qilin abandoned the dragon, securing victory for the Nine Provinces. Ning Qingfeng claimed the battlefield treasure, announced the victory, and prepared to honor the fallen and reward the survivors.

• Li Yang mocked Yinglong for begging the ink-black qilin for help, while Ancestor Rising Sun warned the qilin against harming him.
• The ink-black qilin disowned Yinglong and exploded, sending the dragon flying without threatening Li Yang.
• Li Yang used a Spatial-Shift Talisman and the empowered Qianyang Core Sword to split Yinglong's head and kill him.
• Li Yang brought Xuanyou out of the Black Tortoise Battlefield, and Ning Qingfeng collected the treasure.
• Ning Qingfeng proclaimed the Nine Provinces' victory, praised Li Yang and the fallen, and promised compensation for their families.
• Ancestor Rising Sun, the White Phoenix Ancestor, and the young Sword Chief departed, while the remaining Kun Province leaders and prodigies entered the Ning Lineage.

Li Yang rejected Xuanyou’s offer to become his Beast Companion until Xuanyou revealed the Black Tortoise’s innate space and time-manipulation abilities. Li Yang agreed to keep him in his Minor World Magic Treasure, where Xuanyou would remain unless summoned.

• Xuanyou complained that the Nine Provinces had overwhelmed the Demon Savage Continent, and Li Yang explained that the Nine Provinces had been stronger and the Yinglong had crossed the Dao Alliance’s bottom line.
• Li Yang offered to return Xuanyou’s soul blood and said he would protect him until his clansmen arrived, but Xuanyou refused to leave and argued that becoming Li Yang’s Beast Companion was a fortuitous opportunity.
• Xuanyou revealed his Black Tortoise innate space, where Li Yang could recover among powerful spirit herbs, and marked him with a totem that let him enter and leave.
• Xuanyou demonstrated that time passed ten times faster inside his space, convincing Li Yang to keep him on the condition that he stay in the Minor World Magic Treasure unless summoned.
• Xuanyou entered the Black Tortoise Totem, and Li Yang imagined using the space to recover quickly during battles.

At the victory banquet, Li Yang struck Saintess Su Yao for directing killing intent at him and drew the admiration of the Sword Cultivators. After the banquet, Ning Qingfeng took him to her cultivation retreat, where the Ning Lineage watched them leave hand in hand.

• Li Yang sensed Saintess Su Yao's killing intent, slapped her into a mountain, and warned her not to target him again.
• Mu Yao confronted Chu Feng about his past abuse and rejected becoming his Dao Companion, while Chu Feng threatened to claim her and Feng Wangshu by force.
• Wang Dabao presented Li Yang with spiritual cuisine made from Chen Geng's corpse, and Li Yang stored it as a gift for Ning Qingfeng.
• Palace Master Yin offered disciples to encourage ties with Li Yang, but Ning Qingfeng challenged her motives and the two exchanged barbed remarks.
• Ning Qingfeng invited Li Yang to stay with the Ning Lineage and led him to her cultivation retreat while they held hands; an elder joked that their lineage head would soon be born.

Li Yang and Ning Qingfeng shared a meal above Volcano and discussed the coming convergence, Ning Xinyao’s recovery, and the danger posed by Chu Mu. Their conversation turned intimate as Li Yang’s desire intensified, leaving him telling Ning Qingfeng that he was burning up.

• Li Yang and Ning Qingfeng ate Yinglong dishes and wine while discussing their feelings and the convergence of the Nine Provinces.
• Ning Qingfeng explained that the realms would converge within a month and that Demon Immortals had supported the Demon Race prodigies.
• Ning Qingfeng told Li Yang that Ning Xinyao had gone with Ancestor Feihua to undergo nirvana and might return at the Nascent Soul stage.
• Li Yang revealed that Chu Feng was the demonic sovereign Chu Mu and asked Ning Qingfeng to investigate Vice Holy Lord Leng Xi, whom Chu Mu had approached through dual cultivation.
• Ning Qingfeng questioned why Li Yang had told Chu Mu he had no Dao Companion, and Li Yang began burning with desire after eating Yinglong dragon meat.

After becoming intimate, Li Yang reassured Ning Qingfeng that he would wait for her if their cultivation paths diverged. They then helped Leng Xi escape Chu Feng’s control and prepared to use her as part of a plan to capture him.

• Li Yang and Ning Qingfeng became intimate, and Li Yang told her that their relationship was not based on obligation and that she should call for him if he ever went too far ahead.
• Ning Qingfeng summoned Leng Xi and revealed that Chu Feng was the reborn Chu Mu, who had cursed and enslaved her using her refined soul blood.
• Ancestor Xuanyu performed a modified nirvana for Leng Xi, removed the curse, and made a clone to keep Chu Feng from suspecting anything.
• Ning Qingfeng told Leng Xi to return without alerting Chu Feng and wait for the plan to capture him.
• Li Yang warned Leng Xi not to confuse her abuser with her hope of survival, and Leng Xi vowed to devote herself to destroying evil fiends.

Ning Qingfeng brought Li Yang and the other demon slayers to the Dao Alliance headquarters to claim treasury rewards. After Chongyang gifted Li Yang Solar True Fire, they reached the treasury, where Elder Xuanshu recognized the Black Tortoise totem on Li Yang’s wrist and condemned him for becoming a beast companion.

• Ning Qingfeng explained the history of Immortal Relic Province to Li Yang and led the group through a teleportation formation to the Dao Alliance headquarters.
• Ning Qingfeng introduced Li Yang to Chongyang, the Demon Court Lord of Xun Province, who offered to trade Solar True Fire for one of Li Yang’s treasure selections.
• Chongyang gave Ning Qingfeng a flame of Solar True Fire for Li Yang, and Li Yang accepted it after deciding it would not make him compromise his principles.
• Ning Qingfeng collected fifty-three jade talismans for the group, including thirty-four for Li Yang, based on their kills of Ancestor-Blood Rank prodigies.
• At the treasury, Elder Xuanshu saw the Black Tortoise totem on Li Yang’s wrist and criticized him for becoming another creature’s beast companion.

Xuanyou awoke long enough to meet Elder Xuanshu, and Li Yang entered the Dao Alliance Treasury to spend his jade tokens on supreme treasures. With twenty tokens remaining, he followed Ning Qingfeng to the second level to search for a Sword Dao divine ability, where a cracked sword caught his attention.

• Xuanyou woke when Elder Xuanshu scolded Li Yang, then knelt to greet his clan ancestor.
• Elder Xuanshu questioned Li Yang's thirty-four jade tokens until Ning Qingfeng relayed the alliance leader's permission and explained Li Yang's feat against thirty-three invading prodigies.
• Ning Qingfeng guided Li Yang through the first level, where he chose fourteen supreme treasures, including items for Xuanyou.
• Ning Qingfeng found no Sword Dao divine ability on the first level that suited Li Yang, so she took him to the second level to keep searching.
• Li Yang stopped in the cultivation manual section before a cracked sword and could not move on.

Li Yang comprehended a sword immortal’s Stunning Sword Strike in the Dao Alliance Treasury and chose a Six-Winged Heavenly Cicada’s shell to aid his mastery of spatial power. After returning to Youli Peak, he discovered that the treasures and resources stored in his Minor World had vanished.

• Ning Qingfeng unlocked the restrictions on the broken sword, allowing Li Yang to witness and comprehend the sword immortal’s Stunning Sword Strike.
• Li Yang said the technique required at least Nascent Soul cultivation, and Ning Qingfeng showed him a Six-Winged Heavenly Cicada’s shell that could help him wield spatial power.
• Xuanyou drank the Evergreen Wood Longevity Liquid, returned to sleep as a totem on Li Yang’s wrist, and urged him to visit the Black Tortoise clan.
• Ning Qingfeng escorted Li Yang back to the Moonlit Holy Land, reminded him that the realms would fully meet in twenty days, and kissed him after he hesitantly sought her affection.
• Li Yang returned to Youli Peak and found that the treasures, pills, and other resources in his Minor World had disappeared.

Li Yang discovered that the newly hatched Black Serpent had devoured his spirit stones and many resources, then bound it as a beast companion after learning about its concealment and treasure-finding abilities. He refined several treasures, mastering the Pseudo-Incomplete Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation and awakening the broken sword’s power to slay immortals, though part of its blade was missing.

• Li Yang found the Black Serpent had eaten his spirit stones, pills, and spirit veins, and Xuanyou identified it as an extinct species with a powerful bloodline.
• Li Yang bound the Black Serpent with a master-servant contract and learned it could erase its aura, camouflage itself, and locate hidden treasures.
• The Black Serpent led Li Yang to a concealed valley treasure trove inside the minor world, and Li Yang moved the serpent to his wrist as a totem.
• Li Yang refined the solar true fire into the Qianyang Core Sword but made little progress refining the Six-Winged Heavenly Cicada's shed shell.
• Li Yang mastered the Pseudo-Incomplete Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation and found that his broken sword retained an intent capable of slaying immortals, though part of its blade was missing.

Li Yang interrupted Chu Feng as he pressured Leng Xi to use her Mysterious Yin Pure Spirit Body to help him form a Nascent Soul, then struck him and drove him from Youli Peak. Leng Xi confirmed Chu Feng planned to grow stronger and was heading to the Bordering Lands, while the sect prepared to depart for the Ning Lineage.

• Li Yang abandoned his attempt to refine the Six-Winged Heavenly Cicada's shell and left the Black Tortoise Space after sensing a dispute in Leng Xi's hall.
• Chu Feng demanded that Leng Xi help him cultivate, and Mu Yao accused him of wanting to consume Leng Xi's body's essence to form his Nascent Soul.
• Li Yang confronted Chu Feng, slapped him, and dismissed his threat to report the assault to the Sword Alliance.
• Leng Xi told Li Yang that Chu Feng wanted to form his Nascent Soul so he could find a chance to kill him, and confirmed Mu Yao had no restrictions on her body.
• Li Yang told Leng Xi that the Sword Alliance was working to eliminate Chu Feng's revival methods, and learned that Chu Feng planned to go to the Bordering Lands.
• The Moonlit Holy Lord announced that the sect would depart for the Ning Lineage to witness history.

As cultivators gathered at the Ning Lineage ahead of the Joining, Xuanyuan visitors learned that Li Yang was Ning Qingfeng’s intended, while Lu Qingqiu discovered Wang Dabao was cooking there. Li Yang arrived to sample Wang Dabao’s new cake, and the chapter ended before he gave his verdict.

• Cultivators discussed the approaching Joining and watched the Xuanyuan Sword Sect enter the Ning Lineage, where they learned Ning Qingfeng’s partner was the Golden Core disciple Li Yang.
• Lu Qingqiu sampled the Ning Lineage’s osmanthus cakes, then went looking for the Spiritual Chef who had made them.
• Lu Qingqiu spotted Wang Dabao cooking and recognized him from the Heavenly Pride Battle broadcast.
• Li Yang arrived, greeted Lu Qingqiu, and went straight to see Wang Dabao, receiving a warmer welcome than she had.
• Wang Dabao offered Li Yang his Iceheart Flame Bean Cake and eagerly asked what he thought of it.

Li Yang joined the Xuanyuan Sword Sect’s meeting, where Lu Jun explained the coming contest for opportunities in the collapsing boundary between the Nine Provinces and the Demon Savage Continent. The chapter ended with Lu Jun entrusting Li Yang with the sect master’s token and authority over all Xuanyuan sword cultivators.

• Li Yang and Lu Qingqiu shared Wang Dabao’s spiritual cuisine before their elders summoned them to the Xuanyuan Sword Sect’s gathering.
• Lu Feng praised Li Yang’s rise to Golden Core, while Yun Qingxuan rebuked Lu Feng for neglecting his duties.
• Lu Jun revealed that the Dao Alliance had disclosed a future convergence between the Nine Provinces and the Demon Savage Continent, and made everyone swear to keep the information secret.
• Lu Jun outlined the grotto heaven, innate sword vein, and other opportunities the Xuanyuan Sword Sect planned to pursue as the two domains collided.
• Lu Jun explained that seniors in the Upper Realm would send blessings and inheritances to their lineages, while Demon Race seniors would do the same for their own.
• Lu Jun gave Li Yang the Xuanyuan Sword Sect master’s identity token and ordered all Xuanyuan sword cultivators to obey him.

Li Yang declined to lead the Xuanyuan Sword Sect but accepted a Dijiang origin blood essence opportunity and the Ning Lineage’s leadership token and protections. The Sword Chief then assigned him to hunt wicked immortals hiding in the Great World of Ten Thousand Immortals, a mission Li Yang eagerly accepted.

• Li Yang refused the Xuanyuan Sword Sect’s sect master token, but accepted guidance to seek Dijiang origin blood essence.
• Ning Qingfeng asked Li Yang to lead the Ning Lineage’s people and safeguard their ancestral blessings, and gave him the Nirvana Seal and a Ten-Pattern Nascent Soul Condensation Pill.
• The Sword Chief assigned Li Yang to hunt fugitives from the Upper Realm who were hiding in the Great World of Ten Thousand Immortals.
• Li Yang eagerly accepted the mission, and the Sword Chief promised him a treasury treasure for each wicked immortal he killed and gave him authority over the Sword Envoys.