Recaps

Li Taibai took control of Leng Qingsong’s body to reunite with Ouyang, and the old friends discussed Ouyang’s plan to let all living beings choose their own paths. After drinking and playfully wrestling, they faced the danger ahead, with Ouyang telling Li Taibai to do his part and leave the rest to him.

• Li Taibai possessed Leng Qingsong and reunited with Ouyang across tens of millions of years.
• Li Taibai and Ouyang teased each other about their reunion and reflected on how they had changed.
• Ouyang said he wanted to give all living beings the chance to choose for themselves, and Li Taibai accepted his idea.
• Ouyang and Li Taibai drank wine, then wrestled playfully after Li Taibai flicked Ouyang’s forehead.
• Li Taibai questioned whether Ouyang had to take on a dangerous, uncertain task, and Ouyang told him to do his part and leave the rest to him.

Li Taibai awakened in Leng Qingsong’s body while Ouyang fell asleep, and he met Liang Zai, the dog-shaped sword scabbard who had once followed him. Liang Zai affirmed his loyalty to Ouyang, and Li Taibai’s curiosity about the dog’s sex left them both blaming Ouyang for their strange behavior.

• Ouyang fell asleep while Li Taibai watched over Leng Qingsong’s body.
• Liang Zai recognized Li Taibai’s aura and asked whether he was his former master.
• Li Taibai recognized Liang Zai as the dog-shaped scabbard of his sword and recalled his resentment toward Ouyezi for making it that way.
• Liang Zai told Li Taibai that he was Ouyang’s dog now, choosing loyalty to his current master.
• Li Taibai lifted Liang Zai and asked whether the dog was male or female, leaving Liang Zai frustrated.

Ouyang woke from a chaotic dream to find Li Taibai inhabiting Leng Qingsong and playing with Liang Zai. Li Taibai reassured Ouyang that he had staked the future on him and that he was not alone, then collapsed as Leng Qingsong returned to himself.

• Ouyang woke and saw Leng Qingsong, controlled by Li Taibai, imitating gunfire with Liang Zai at Little Bie San.
• Li Taibai explained that Liang Zai was his gift to Ouyang, recalling how Ouyang had once mimicked a gun with Li Taibai's sword.
• Ouyang admitted he was unsure whether Li Taibai was using him, and apologized for distrusting him.
• Li Taibai said they were alike in trying to change the future and assured Ouyang that he was staking the future on him.
• Li Taibai urged Ouyang to write a diary, then lost control of Leng Qingsong's body and told Ouyang there was someone behind him.

Ouyang reprimanded Leng Qingsong for risking his life and learned he intended to retrieve Li Taibai’s legacy from the Extreme Eastern Land. After Song Mu’s Sword Dao breakthrough made him the top-ranked young cultivator, Ouyang urged Leng Qingsong to prove his own claim to the foremost Sword Dao.

• Leng Qingsong woke in Ouyang’s arms, and Ouyang scolded him for charging into danger because he trusted his elder brother to save him.
• Leng Qingsong told Ouyang that Li Taibai’s legacy awaited him in the Extreme Eastern Land, though he concealed that it could let him comprehend the pinnacle of the Green Lotus Sword Dao.
• Sword Intent erupted from the Ethereal Pavilion, and Song Mu glimpsed the path of the White Lotus Sword Dao as his cultivation rose to the half-step Great Cultivator realm.
• The young cultivators praised Song Mu and raised him to first place on the Heavenly Ranking, prompting Ouyang to wonder whether Song Mu would surpass Leng Qingsong.
• Leng Qingsong dismissed Song Mu’s breakthrough as luck, and Ouyang tucked paper cranes into his robes and told him to let all Heaven and Earth know he was the foremost Sword Dao practitioner.

Ouyang went fishing at sea with Liang Zai and Little Bie San, while Leng Qingsong kept hearing strange breathing as they traveled east. Ouyang traced the sound to a Sky-Piercing Giant Pillar in the distance.

• Ouyang rode Liang Zai like a surfboard after a huge fish dragged his fishing line, but Little Bie San leaped out of the sea after hurling a whale into the air.
• Little Bie San chased the whale underwater and dragged Ouyang along, until Leng Qingsong cut the whale in two with Sword Qi.
• Ouyang surfaced with Little Bie San and scolded Leng Qingsong for nearly striking them with his Sword Qi.
• Leng Qingsong told Ouyang he had been hearing heavy breathing and seeing countless threads, with the sound growing clearer as they traveled east.
• Ouyang sensed the ragged breathing, formed a giant whale from seawater, and saw that the sound came from a Sky-Piercing Giant Pillar in the distance.

Ouyang realized the Sky-Piercing Giant Pillar was Li Taibai, merged with Heaven and Earth, and pondered the forces behind the Immortal-Slaying War and older calamities. He sent Leng Qingsong toward the pillar and decided to stop unraveling the mysteries and overturn the powers’ plans.

• Ouyang recognized the Heaven and Earth Breathing as coming from the Sky-Piercing Giant Pillar, where Li Taibai had become the backbone of Heaven and Earth.
• Ouyang recalled how the Immortals had forced Li Taibai to support Heaven and Earth, then wondered whether a hidden power had helped him defeat them.
• Ouyang connected the black hand at the Ethereal Pavilion and Tu Yun’s Grand Ancestor to forces from before the Immortal Era, possibly tied to the Dragon-Phoenix First Calamity.
• Ouyang reflected that the Immortal-Slaying War had left its victory and defeat unresolved, with Li Taibai dead and the Immortals fallen into the Mortal World.
• Leng Qingsong sensed challenges and opportunities at the Sky-Piercing Giant Pillar, and Ouyang gave him permission to investigate.
• Ouyang dismissed his unanswered questions and resolved to kick over the chessboard of the powers behind the mysteries.

Leng Qingsong touched the Sky-Piercing Giant Pillar and connected with a strange telephone from the Nine Hells, where Hui Zhi and Fan Rubin spoke with Ouyang. Fan Rubin delivered a message to Leng Qingsong that left him shaken, and Ouyang recognized it as words Fan Rubin had once told him.

• Leng Qingsong resonated with the Sky-Piercing Giant Pillar, affirmed his connection to Li Taibai, and insisted that he would remain himself.
• A ringing telephone fell from the sky, and Ouyang answered it, connecting with Hui Zhi in the Nine Hells.
• Hui Zhi praised Ouyang, while Ouyang realized that his modernization of the city had transformed the old speaking tube into a telephone.
• Fan Rubin took the receiver and asked to speak with Ouyang's younger brother, so Ouyang passed the telephone to Leng Qingsong.
• After Fan Rubin spoke to him, the telephone vanished, and Leng Qingsong said Fan Rubin had repeated words he had once said to Ouyang about chess players and pieces.

Ouyang realized the Grand Ancestor had left the same cryptic words for him and Leng Qingsong, then urged his second brother to investigate the Sky-Piercing Giant Pillars. He left Leng Qingsong to meditate with Liang Zai and a carved warning before departing west with Little Bie San.

• Leng Qingsong mistook Ouyang for a chess player secretly directing him and eagerly waited for orders to fight.
• Ouyang reasoned that the chess players were powerless to act directly once their pieces were on the board.
• Ouyang asked Leng Qingsong about the power Li Taibai had given him, and Leng Qingsong said it contained insights into the later stages of the Green Lotus Sword Dao.
• Ouyang told Leng Qingsong to discover the connection between the Sky-Piercing Giant Pillars in the Nine Hells and the Extreme Eastern Land.
• Ouyang raised a platform from the sea, left Liang Zai with Leng Qingsong, and carved “To know but not act is simply not to know” on a stone stele.
• Ouyang departed west with Little Bie San, and Leng Qingsong opened his eyes to read the words on the stele.

Ouyang returned to the Azure Cloud Sect after a long, leisurely journey and reunited with Dongxu Zi in the Main Hall. He questioned Dongxu Zi about sparing Xiaoyaozi and then asked where his Minor World was.

• Ouyang returned to the Azure Cloud Sect with Little Bie San after nearly half a year on the road.
• Ouyang walked up Azure Cloud Peak, rested on the steps, and was taken by Dongxu Zi to the Main Hall.
• Ouyang complained that Dongxu Zi had let Xiaoyaozi live, then realized Dongxu Zi considered him already doomed.
• Little Bie San slipped away while Ouyang and Dongxu Zi ate fruit and drank fruit wine.
• Ouyang recalled Dongxu Zi slashing the moon and plucking stars, then asked where his Minor World was.

Ouyang questioned Dongxu Zi about the differences between powerful tribulation transcendence cultivators and the existence of Immortal minor worlds, then asked about ancient history. Their conversation ended when Dongxu Zi revealed that Ouyang had mistaken the peak masters’ identities.

• Ouyang deduced that Immortals created minor worlds and asked why Dongxu Zi was far stronger than other ninth-level tribulation transcendence cultivators.
• Dongxu Zi explained that he remained at the ninth level but possessed half of a minor world left by Ouyang's Grand Ancestor, which Ouyang identified as the Pure White Space.
• Ouyang asked Dongxu Zi about the Dragon-Phoenix First Calamity, and Dongxu Zi said the Xiantian Three Clans had opened Heaven and Earth.
• Ouyang offered to explain to Martial Uncle Danyuan Zi why flowers were red if he came to find him.
• Dongxu Zi bound Ouyang's wrist and told him that Danyuan Zi was the Peak Master of Pill Peak and Chunyang Zi was the Peak Master of Questioning Sword Peak.

Dongxu Zi remembered how Hu Yun had brought Ouyang and Leng Qingsong to the Azure Cloud Sect, and why he had tried to keep Ouyang away from Hu Yun. After Hu Yun revealed that Ouyang had sung a song from their other world, Dongxu Zi learned that Ouyang was a fellow countryman.

• Dongxu Zi warned the present-day Ouyang that his cultivation had declined and his dantian was shrinking, prompting Ouyang to hide his wrist.
• Dongxu Zi recalled Hu Yun bringing young Leng Qingsong and Ouyang to the sect, and recognized the immense karma surrounding Leng Qingsong and Ouyang’s unusual, despairing gaze.
• Dongxu Zi tried to reject Ouyang as Hu Yun’s disciple, but Hu Yun insisted on keeping him and sent Ouyang and Leng Qingsong outside before speaking privately with Dongxu Zi.
• Dongxu Zi confronted Hu Yun about taking in an extraterrestrial heavenly demon and blamed himself for their master’s death and the tragedies that followed.
• Hu Yun told Dongxu Zi that Ouyang had been singing a song from their other world, and Dongxu Zi realized Ouyang was Hu Yun’s fellow countryman.

Hu Yun told Dongxu Zi that Ouyang possessed the same power as their master and could become the possibility that their long-laid plans needed. Ouyang left for Little Mountain Peak to recover, warning Dongxu Zi not to give up before the end.

• Hu Yun argued that Ouyang’s unusual insight and potential made him a separate plan for what might follow their thousands-year effort to break free of fate.
• Hu Yun revealed that the same power as their master’s had awakened in Ouyang, leaving Dongxu Zi shaken by the possibility of their master’s reincarnation.
• Dongxu Zi realized their plans might fail because they remained bound by karma, and felt guilty that their actions had burdened Ouyang and contributed to his memory loss.
• Ouyang dismissed Dongxu Zi’s apology, asked him to train Monkey, and said he was returning to Little Mountain Peak to recover.
• Ouyang urged Dongxu Zi not to become one of the few who failed to see things through, then told him to make his eventual death heroic rather than theatrical.

After returning to the Azure Cloud Sect, Ouyang watched Little Bie San study under Dongxu Zi while his worsening memory loss forced him to rely on a notebook and, during lapses, the women who came to care for him. The chapter left Ouyang’s condition growing more serious despite his efforts to remain independent.

• Little Bie San showed exceptional talent studying the Dao under Dongxu Zi, while Zhao Qiansun felt humbled by the monkey’s rapid progress.
• Ouyang visited Azure Cloud Peak to watch the lessons, took notes with cotton in his ears, and repeatedly fell asleep when he listened to the Dao Sounds.
• Ouyang’s memory loss worsened after he spent large amounts of True Essence making Paper Cranes and Paper Butterflies, and he began keeping a notebook to remember important things.
• Dongxu Zi asked Su Xiaoqi, Mu Yunhai, and Su Ling'er to look after Ouyang, though Ouyang refused their help when he was lucid.
• When Ouyang forgot how to care for himself, Su Xiaoqi, Mu Yunhai, and Su Ling'er quietly helped him change, clean up, and eat.

Ouyang’s memory and strength deteriorated over seven years as Little Bie San stayed by his side, until the first snowfall brought a brief return of Ouyang’s clarity. Ouyang watched a brilliant sword strike approach from the east, then tasted blood after holding himself together through its passing.

• Ouyang’s memory worsened over the years, and Little Bie San guarded him while Ouyang mistook him for Chen Changsheng.
• Ouyang looked toward the people he cared about in every direction as Little Bie San remained at his side.
• During the seventh year’s first snowfall, Ouyang regained his clarity, swept the courtyard, and asked Little Bie San how long he had been muddleheaded.
• Ouyang warned that his second junior brother needed to make his decision soon, then watched the east as a powerful sword light tore across the sky.
• The Sword Qi swept away the snow but only lifted the corner of Ouyang’s robe, and Ouyang lowered his eyes after biting his tongue until his mouth filled with blood.

Leng Qingsong inherited Li Taibai’s Sword Dao insights and reached the brink of the No-Dao Realm, but realized that becoming its supreme sword would destroy the world’s freedom. As fear drove him toward suicide, Mu Wu swallowed his sword to stop him.

• Leng Qingsong retraced Li Taibai’s cultivation journey and advanced from the Body Integration Realm to the Tribulation Transcendence Stage, stopping just short of the No-Dao Realm.
• Leng Qingsong understood that Li Taibai’s No-Dao Sword Dao could erase all Immortals and impose a single absolute authority on the world.
• Leng Qingsong abandoned his breakthrough, realized he had been a pawn, and became so terrified that he considered killing himself with his sword.
• Mu Wu coiled around Leng Qingsong’s sword and tried to stop him, but Leng Qingsong’s surging laws threatened to tear the snake away.
• Mu Wu swallowed the sword and held it inside its body as a scabbard, while Liang Zai watched in shock.

Mu Wu’s intervention pulled Leng Qingsong back from the No-Dao Realm, and he understood that Hu Yun’s Red Dust Scheme had been meant to save him from losing himself to the Dao. Rather than follow his inherited fate, Leng Qingsong resolved to find another path, reached the Ninth-Level Tribulation Transcendence Realm, and glimpsed something hidden beyond the sky.

• Mu Wu swallowed Leng Qingsong’s sword and severed his connection to the Dao, drawing him back from the No-Dao Realm.
• Leng Qingsong recognized Mu Wu and realized Hu Yun and his elder brother had arranged the Red Dust Scheme to keep him from becoming a will of heaven and earth.
• Leng Qingsong grasped the sword and rejected the path that would make him cease to be himself, resolving to find another way within the Dao.
• Leng Qingsong’s cultivation rose to the Ninth-Level Tribulation Transcendence Realm as spatial laws gathered around him.
• Leng Qingsong looked beyond the clouds and saw his thirteenth-grade green lotuses bloom, revealing red stamens at their centers.

Leng Qingsong investigated the strange feeling above the sky and saw a real world hanging upside down beyond the false sky. He realized the sky concealed the boundary between two worlds, and feared their collision could destroy both.

• Leng Qingsong raised his head to investigate the anomaly he had sensed after reaching the ninth-level Tribulation Transcendence realm, but the White Snake Flying Sword tried to stop him.
• Leng Qingsong insisted he had nothing left to fear, then glanced upward and collapsed in terror; Liang Zai secretly watched and laughed.
• The sky erupted into thunder and violent weather, while Leng Qingsong trembled at the vision he had witnessed.
• Leng Qingsong saw a barren, blood-red world filled with chaotic power and realized it was a real world hanging upside down above his own.
• Leng Qingsong understood that the blue sky concealed the two worlds and suspected Li Taibai held them apart, then feared their collision could bring about the end of both worlds.

Leng Qingsong realized the Sky-Piercing Giant Pillar was close to breaking and that the two worlds could soon collapse into catastrophe. Determined to save his elder brother and the world, he abandoned the no-Dao path and sent his divine soul toward the sky to investigate the world above.

• Leng Qingsong understood that the cracked Sky-Piercing Giant Pillar was nearing collapse and that its failure would destroy both worlds.
• He struggled to decide whether the no-Dao realm was right, then resolved that his elder brother must survive and that only one world could remain.
• Leng Qingsong accepted his destiny to guide the worlds into merging or bring about the destruction of one of them.
• A giant green lotus carried Leng Qingsong's divine soul toward the sky as a white snake rose behind him to protect him.
• Leng Qingsong set out to discover what existed in the upside-down world above the sky.

Leng Qingsong crossed the sky into the world beyond High Heaven and found himself surrounded by the Devil Race. As he prepared to leave the Demon Realm, its inhabitants unexpectedly knelt and prayed to him.

• Leng Qingsong's green lotus carried his divine soul through the sky and crashed into the blood-colored ground below.
• The impact drew countless black-patterned, scarlet-eyed beings, and Leng Qingsong recognized them as the Devil Race.
• Leng Qingsong concluded that he had entered the Demon Realm and decided its destruction would protect his own world.
• Tens of thousands of Devil Race members gathered around the crater, and Leng Qingsong prepared to depart.
• The Devil Race members prostrated themselves and prayed to Leng Qingsong.

Leng Qingsong discovered that the Devil Race worshipped the green lotus as Father God and wondered whether an ancient wielder of the Green Lotus Sword Dao had preceded Li Taibai. When the Devil Maiden urged the gathered demons to fight for Father God, she concluded that they needed to offer up their hearts to receive an answer.

• Countless members of the Devil Race knelt before Leng Qingsong's green lotus and prayed to him as Father God.
• Leng Qingsong realized they might be worshipping an earlier wielder of the Green Lotus Sword Dao and stayed to learn more.
• Leng Qingsong made the green lotus manifest the principles of Heaven and Earth, prompting the Devil Race to hail him as Father God.
• The Devil Maiden arrived and asked whether Father God wanted his people to fight for him, stirring the Devil Race into a frenzy.
• When the green lotus did not respond, the Devil Maiden declared that the Devil Race needed to offer their hearts to Father God.

Leng Qingsong stopped the Zhuj iu Tribe’s devils from sacrificing themselves and agreed to go with their fanatical leader. As she carried the Green Lotus toward the tribe, he recognized Immortal Script welcoming Father God at their gate.

• The girl urged the devils to offer their hearts to Father God, and Leng Qingsong ordered them to stop before they could sacrifice themselves en masse.
• The girl asked Father God where his enemies were and pledged the Zhuj iu Tribe as his sword, so Leng Qingsong told her to take him with her.
• The girl carried the Green Lotus toward her tribe while the devils prostrated themselves along her path.
• Leng Qingsong saw the Zhuj iu Tribe’s mountain stronghold and recognized the Immortal Script on its gate: “A warm welcome to Lord Father God on his arrival at the Zhuj iu Tribe!”

Leng Qingsong witnessed the memory of Li Taibai saving the Devil Race when an Immortal folded Heaven and Earth, and his Dao Heart became clear as he accepted that the Dao itself could not be wrong. The Green Lotus illuminated the Demon Realm, while Chongming summoned the twelve tribe leaders to the Demon Hall for an urgent deliberation.

• The girl carried the Green Lotus through the Immortal Script gate and lowered it into the Blood Pool before the statue of the crimson serpent.
• Leng Qingsong saw the serpent’s memories and learned that Li Taibai became a Sky-Piercing Giant Pillar to keep the folded Heaven and Earth from crushing the Devil Race.
• Bai Feiyu declared that the Dao could not be wrong, and Leng Qingsong accepted that right and wrong depended on those within the Dao.
• The Green Lotus released brilliant azure light across the Zhuj iu Tribe and the Extreme Western Land, drawing the attention of the Devil Race’s Great Cultivators.
• Zu Yuan watched the light with a strange smile, while Chongming sent word summoning the twelve tribe leaders to the Demon Hall and warned that latecomers would die.

Leng Qingsong completed his Dao and vanished from the Zhuj iu Tribe as eleven other great devil cultivators awakened to answer Demon Venerable Chongming. The Zhuj iu witch convinced her tribe that their unmoving totem, Zhuyin, had been taken away by the Father God to marry him, and the tribe embraced the secret.

• Leng Qingsong achieved the No-Dao Realm, and the Green Lotus vanished beneath the Zhuj iu Tribe's eyes.
• Eleven great devil cultivators awakened across the Demon Realm and answered Demon Venerable Chongming's call.
• The Zhuj iu tribespeople panicked when their totem, Zhuyin, remained motionless, and the witch feared she was not a real witch.
• The witch claimed the Father God had taken Zhuyin away to marry her, and the tribespeople accepted the explanation as truth.
• The Zhuj iu Tribe vowed to keep the supposed romance secret, while a fine crack appeared in Zhuyin's statue and Leng Qingsong sneezed at the Sky-Piercing Giant Pillar.

Leng Qingsong reached the realm beyond No-Dao but rejected a path that would make him impose his will on all living beings. After understanding Ouyang’s sacrifice and choosing to open a path for everyone, he struck toward the sky and began transforming into an Immortal.

• Leng Qingsong entered a mysterious realm beyond No-Dao and realized that embracing all living beings with Great Love did not suit him.
• Paper Cranes carried Ouyang’s True Essence into Leng Qingsong, revealing that Ouyang had scattered himself throughout Heaven and Earth to support Leng Qingsong’s Dao.
• Leng Qingsong understood his elder brother’s sacrifice and decided to let all living beings choose their own fate rather than dictate it for them.
• Leng Qingsong drew the White Snake Flying Sword and unleashed a strike to open Heaven, while a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon rose from the sea and joined him.
• Leng Qingsong’s sword opened the Great Dao, his Divine Soul began transforming into an Immortal’s True Spirit, and he was swept into Heaven and Earth’s River of Time.

Leng Qingsong’s sword opened the Heavenly Gate but failed to break the False Heaven, leaving the Immortals confident that he would have to join them. Bai Feiyu discovered that the Immortals had taken control of the Mortal Worlds’ reincarnation and prepared to oppose his Second Senior Brother if their paths clashed.

• Leng Qingsong struck at the false curtain over Heaven and Earth, but found that his sword could not fully cleave it apart.
• The Immortals believed Leng Qingsong would need their help to straighten out the folded Heaven and Earth, and expected him to ascend alongside them.
• The thirty-six Mortal Worlds trembled in response to Leng Qingsong’s strike, but Bai Feiyu stilled them with the white Jade Ruler.
• Bai Feiyu realized the Immortals had occupied the Mortal Worlds’ reincarnation, making the worlds vulnerable if they were killed or sealed.
• Bai Feiyu resolved to fight Leng Qingsong if his Second Senior Brother chose to ascend with the Immortals, then continued his God-Sealing mission.