Recaps

The Dao Sect forces endured successive sword formations that devastated their ranks, while Fairy Hongxia helped break the Five Elements array and the Spirit Devouring insects drove the survivors toward defeat. As Xiao Hua struggled to survive a dangerous breakthrough inside the Sword Tomb, Lu Ruochang and the trapped cultivators remained locked in a stalemate.

• Fairy Hongxia and Xiang Ming led an assault on the Yin Yang Sword Array’s pillars, but Yang Jiuding and Xiu Jie helped destroy the array and its final sword-light barrage killed thousands.
• Heng Ming’s forces encountered the Rending Blade Five Elements Sword Array, where Liao Que and the five swords unleashed multiplying attacks that slaughtered cultivators.
• Fairy Hongxia flooded the array with Innate True Water, weakening it and scattering its core, though the final sword storm still killed many Dao Sect disciples.
• Li Zongbao reported that only a little over 160,000 Dao Sect disciples remained, and Heng Ming led them toward Sword Burial Mound despite warnings about another formation.
• Qingfeng and Fan Zuiyuan activated the Sword Domain Spirit Devouring Great Formation, whose insects devoured Qi Ming and pursued the Golden Core cultivators.
• Ye Yu betrayed four sword gates, sacrificed their disciples, and used the Gecko Insect while real and mutated Spirit Devouring insects ravaged the Dao Sect forces.
• A breakthrough’s confinement briefly immobilized the insects, but Fan Zuiyuan broke it, and Xiao Hua’s heavenly thunder then weakened Ye Yu’s formation as Xiao Hua struggled to balance his Lightning Cores.
• Xiao Hua devised a new cultivation technique, stabilized his yin and yang forces, and absorbed torrents of sword qi until his sword essence reached Illusion Sword, while Lu Ruochang and the trapped cultivators remained locked in a stalemate.

Xiao Hua survived the Sword Tomb’s destruction and tribulation, formed a Golden Core, and arrived too late to stop the war’s losses. He joined Zhang Qingxiao to investigate Huanghua Ridge, where he learned that his Senior Sister and Jiang Liuer were at the Xi Hua Peak Medicine Garden.

• Xiao Hua formed a Heart Sword, repaired his Sword Pellets, and endured a lightning tribulation that destroyed the Sword Tomb and transformed his Golden Core.
• Xiao Hua emerged from the vanished Sword Tomb and disguised himself as Nameless to save Fairy Hongxia, Xiao Mao, Li Zongbao, and the surviving Dao cultivators from Lu Ruochang’s forces.
• Lu Ruochang received news of the sword cultivators’ gains in Lian Kingdom, while Xiao Hua reunited with Fairy Hongxia and learned that Qian Mo had died protecting the Dao cultivators.
• Xiao Hua shared the Council Hall rewards with Li Zongbao and Xiao Mao, then left after receiving news that a close relative was in danger.
• Xiao Hua met Zhang Qingxiao, discussed Zhang Yuhe and the Spirit Severing Primordial Light, and warned him that the Duojin Mountain Yu Family planned a vast blood sacrifice.
• Ganlei Zi and the Thunder Control Sect leaders reckoned with the loss of tens of thousands of disciples and resolved to let Nameless cultivate undisturbed.
• Zhang Qingxiao brought Xiao Hua through concealed teleportation arrays to Huanghua Ridge, where Xiao Hua confronted Cao Ming about Jiang Fan and his family.
• Zhang Qingxiao killed Fan Zhe despite Xiao Hua’s objection, then opened Huanghua Ridge’s formation, where Xiao Hua learned that his Senior Sister and Jiang Liuer were at the Xi Hua Peak Medicine Garden.

Xiao Hua carried Jiang Liuer away to seek Buddhist help and learned that Zhang Qingxiao faced a demonic threat tied to the Great Universe Shifting Token. After they defeated Ji Peng and Qingxuan, Zhang Qingxiao revealed his Dilo nature and gave Xiao Hua the demon’s memories and jade slips, while the token remained with Xiao Hua.

• Xiao Hua failed to awaken Jiang Liuer, learned of his unusual meditation, and took him from Huanghua Ridge with Zhang Qingxiao to seek help.
• Xiao Hua met Cui Hongshen and Dui Qimeng, learned that Myriad Thunder Valley had prospered and Xue Xue had advanced rapidly, and gave them gifts and battle spoils.
• Zhang Qingxiao warned Xiao Hua that a Demon General’s split spirit was hunting him, then established the Heavenly Demon Sect before taking Xiao Hua to Heaven Pillar Peak.
• Yin Meng revealed that he had manipulated Zhang Qingxiao with false orders and planned to seize the Heavenly Demon Sect and the Great Universe Shifting Token.
• Xiao Hua defeated Qingxuan and Yin Meng, but Ji Peng emerged from the black qi and trapped Xiao Hua and Zhang Qingxiao in Blood Drop Cave Heaven.
• Xiao Hua and Zhang Qingxiao resisted Ji Peng’s possession attempt, and Zhang Qingxiao devoured Ji Peng’s divided spirit while Little Yellow swallowed Qingxuan.
• Zhang Qingxiao emerged from a blood cocoon and revealed that he was a Dilo who had gained abilities by devouring beasts, then explained the Demon Realm’s ranks and Ji Peng’s Blood Drop Cave Heaven.
• Zhang Qingxiao gave Xiao Hua Ji Peng’s memories and demon jade slips, discussed Xiao Hua’s lost Phoenix Dharma Body, and failed to destroy the Great Shifting Heaven and Earth Token before leaving it with Xiao Hua.

Xiao Hua fought Qi Peng and Lian Xiaocao, while Xuntian City’s leaders investigated the war and True Person Du'e pursued a hidden search. Xiao Hua then led Fairy Hongxia, Li Zongbao, and Xiao Mao through the vanished Sword Tomb into Huan Kingdom, where Qi Chengyi approached with a challenge tied to Ling Yunwu and Yu Wan.

• Xiao Hua accepted Zhang Qingxiao’s tokens and watched him return to the Heavenly Demon Sect, then traveled north and encountered Qi Peng, Gao Dazhuang, and Lian Xiaocao, who challenged him under the Sword Domain’s bounty warrant.
• Xiao Hua fought Lian Xiaocao and evaded Qi Peng, then severed Qi Peng’s wing with Spirit Severing Primordial Light but spared his life before fleeing approaching Sword Transformation cultivators.
• Snowy Realm True Person lamented Xuntian City’s losses and discussed the war, the vanished Sword Tomb, and the Heavenly Demon Sect with Fang Liebie, Jin Gang, and True Person Du'e.
• True Person Du'e investigated Li Chengxu’s records and questioned Zhou Yongchang while searching for someone connected to his master’s mission.
• Xiao Hua met Han Zhu outside Xuntian City, who warned him about using Mind Reading and identified Jiang Liuer’s condition as the Heart Extinction Realm, and Xiao Mao then revealed that he had seen his parents’ killer in the city.
• As Xiao Hua and his companions crossed the vanished Sword Tomb toward Huan Kingdom, Sword Transformation Swordsmen recognized them and patrols repeatedly attacked their party.
• Xiao Hua broke through a force of more than a hundred swordsmen with his seals, and he and his companions escaped into Huan Kingdom and traveled northwest across its snowfields.
• Qi Chengyi and the Cheng brothers approached Xiao Hua, offered him a secret artifact-refining art, and proposed a Vanta Great Formation challenge before asking whether he had met Ling Yunwu and Yu Wan at Quanjin Mountain.