Recaps

On Heavenly God Mountain, Yun Ying attempted to open her tenth heavenly grotto while Yun Xi watched in alarm. As the Heavenly Dao struck Yun Ying with purple lightning, Yun Canghai arrived and said the attempt could not be stopped.

• Yun Xi visited her younger twin sister, Yun Ying, and asked about her cultivation and her chances of reaching the tenth heavenly grotto.
• Yun Ying told Yun Xi to watch as she declared her sword path and summoned nine heavenly grottoes.
• Yun Ying began opening her tenth heavenly grotto, drawing a warning from the Heavenly Dao before purple lightning struck her.
• Yun Xi begged Yun Canghai to save Yun Ying, but he said the attempt could only end in success or failure.

Yun Ying endured the heavenly tribulation and successfully opened the tenth cave heaven, reaching the ultimate limit of the Cave Heaven Realm. After Yun Canghai warned her to keep the achievement secret, Yun Ying asked Yun Xi about events outside and heard of a Bear Child who had broken the Double-Pupiled One’s record.

• Yun Canghai reproached Yun Ying for attempting to open the tenth cave heaven without preparation, while Yun Xi explained that her sister had started unexpectedly.
• Yun Ying endured forty-nine lightning strikes as her Purple Bamboo Sword drew the tenth cave heaven into reality.
• Yun Ying completed the breakthrough, healed her injuries, and manifested all ten cave heavens.
• Yun Canghai congratulated Yun Ying and told her to keep her achievement secret while she stabilized her cultivation.
• Yun Ying asked Yun Xi for news, and Yun Xi told her about the Bear Child’s record-breaking feat and praised Yun Ying’s greater achievement.

Yun Xi told Yun Ying that the Heaven Mending Pavilion was accepting disciples despite its Sacrificial Spirit nearing death, then asked her to join a trip to the Hundred Broken Mountains for a treasure marked on her map. Months later, Yun Ying entered the Spirit Transformation Realm and began tempering her body with Sword Dao Runes.

• Yun Xi and Yun Ying discussed the Heaven Mending Pavilion's vulnerable Sacrificial Spirit and the dangers facing the ancient legacy.
• Yun Ying played the Purple Zither for Yun Xi, conjuring vivid scenes of green earth and a starry sky through her music.
• Yun Xi revealed that her Treasure Map pointed to the Hundred Broken Mountains, and Yun Ying agreed to accompany her.
• Yun Ying reflected on her past life as a man devoted to swordsmanship and her desire to pursue the true Sword Dao in this life.
• After several months of refining her ten Cave Heavens, Yun Ying entered the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Yun Ying summoned Sword Dao Runes, which struck and branded her body as they tempered her flesh.

Yun Ying completed the tempering of her body with Sword Dao Runes and traveled with Yun Xi to Broken Void City for the opening of the Hundred Broken Mountains. They entered through the gateway and found glowing passages leading to different regions inside.

• Yun Ying fused Sword Dao Runes into her flesh, bones, and organs, beginning to forge a sword body.
• Yun Xi arrived to take Yun Ying to the Hundred Broken Mountains, and the two set out with Yun Canghai’s Golden Beasts.
• Yun Ying and Yun Xi waited in Broken Void City until the Hundred Broken Mountains opened, then rode the Little Golden Beast toward the entrance.
• Yun Ying asked Yun Xi to act separately, and the Golden Beast carried them through the gateway past the crowded entrance.
• Yun Ying and Yun Xi saw glowing passages inside the gateway, each leading to a different region of the Hundred Broken Mountains.

Yun Ying entered the Hundred Broken Mountains and discovered a palace left behind by an ancient god. After accepting the god’s trial, she began trying to comprehend a god-level rune to earn its special legacy.

• Yun Ying entered a passageway and emerged in a wild forest, where she spotted mysterious radiance rising from a mountain.
• Yun Ying raced toward the mountain and killed a Spirit Transformation Realm savage bird with a streak of sword energy without slowing down.
• Yun Ying reached the summit and found a radiant palace guarded by two stone beasts, which transported her into a vast white space.
• An ancient god’s spirit appeared and explained that Yun Ying’s powerful bloodline qualified her to attempt the palace’s trial for a special legacy.
• Yun Ying accepted the trial without hesitation and sat down to study the god-level rune the ancient god inscribed.

Yun Ying passed the old man’s trial, received the Star Art and a bloodline-refinement method, and used the divine blood in the palace to refine her bloodline. After claiming two divine bells, she left to find out how Yun Xi was faring in the Hundred Herb Garden.

• Yun Ying comprehended the old man’s Star Art and Star Wings, which transformed into sword-shaped runes and displayed her exceptional Sword Dao talent.
• The old man gave Yun Ying the complete Star Art and sent her into the palace to claim its special inheritance.
• Yun Ying found a bloodline-refinement method and entered the divine blood pool, where she cultivated inside a cocoon for half a month.
• Yun Ying emerged from the cocoon with her bloodline refined and took the two pale blue bells forged from heavenly star stone.
• Yun Ying left the palace and headed toward the passage, wondering how Yun Xi was doing in the Hundred Herb Garden.

Yun Ying entered the Hundred Herb Garden and found the Ageless Divine Spring already drained. There she encountered a human boy who mistook her for Yun Xi, before he fled from the Chi Dragon, Zhujian, and their companions.

• Yun Ying crossed the battlefield, silencing a fight between human prodigies without attacking them.
• Yun Ying entered the Hundred Herb Garden and endured its growing pressure as she explored the medicinal fields.
• Yun Ying found the Ageless Divine Spring drained and noticed traces of battle left behind by Yun Xi and others.
• A human boy mistook Yun Ying for Yun Xi and tried to capture her, while his golden stone companion questioned whether he had injured her earlier.
• The Chi Dragon, Zhujian, and their companions arrived and chased the human boy away, and Yun Xi told Yun Ying that he had threatened to make pure-blooded creatures guard his village entrance.

Yun Ying gave Yun Xi a Divine Artifact bell and a bloodline-refining secret technique before leaving to explore the Hundred Broken Mountains. As the regions merged and powerful native beasts emerged, a Jade-Eyed Golden-Pupiled Beast attacked Yun Ying and prepared to devour her.

• Yun Xi urged Yun Ying to seize the Immortality Divine Spring from the human youth, but Yun Ying refused and gave Yun Xi a Divine Artifact bell and a bloodline-refining secret technique instead.
• Yun Ying passed the Star Art to Yun Xi, who refined the bell while Yun Ying stood guard.
• After Yun Xi finished refining the bell, Yun Ying left to explore another region, while Yun Xi departed and vowed that her conflict with the little thief was not over.
• Yun Ying gathered medicinal plants and spirit herbs until the regions of the Hundred Broken Mountains began merging and their powerful native inhabitants emerged.
• A Jade-Eyed Golden-Pupiled Beast attacked Yun Ying with waves of runes, but the waves parted before reaching her.
• The Jade-Eyed Golden-Pupiled Beast recognized Yun Ying as a human prodigy and gathered its power, intending to devour her and advance.

Yun Ying fought the emerald-eyed, golden-pupiled beast, overwhelming its attacks with runic mastery and the Purple Bamboo Sword. After cutting and badly wounding the beast, she forced it to realize that it could not defeat her, leaving it afraid for its life.

• Yun Ying summoned falling stars that destroyed the beast’s blue waves and forced it to defend itself with runes.
• The emerald-eyed, golden-pupiled beast attacked Yun Ying, but she met its claw with the Purple Bamboo Sword.
• Yun Ying cut off one of the beast’s claws and fought its enraged counterattack.
• Yun Ying struck at the beast’s weaknesses, tearing open its body and severely injuring a forelimb.
• The emerald-eyed, golden-pupiled beast recognized Yun Ying’s superiority and feared that continuing the battle would cost it its life.

Yun Ying forced the Jade-Eyed Golden-Pupiled Beast to surrender azure water divine gold before heading to the Hundred Broken Mountains’ center to meet Yun Xi. The two assessed the guarded quasi-sacred medicine, while a hidden group on a Divine Carpet narrowly avoided Yun Ying’s notice.

• The Jade-Eyed Golden-Pupiled Beast conceded defeat and gave Yun Ying his azure water divine gold in exchange for being allowed to leave.
• Yun Ying traveled through the beast tide to the Central Region, where she reunited with Yun Xi and noticed Yun Xi was missing a Heart-Link Pendant.
• Yun Xi told Yun Ying that a Divine Monkey King and thousands of golden monkeys guarded a lake and four stalks of quasi-sacred medicine.
• Yun Ying sensed someone watching them, but she and Yun Xi dismissed the feeling and turned their attention back to the treasure ground.
• A hidden group of humans and primordial remnants aboard a Divine Carpet realized Yun Ying had nearly detected them.

Yun Ying and Yun Xi entered the monkey-occupied forest to reach the lake and its four stalks of quasi-sacred medicine. Yun Ying carved through the troop and faced its chiefs while Yun Xi continued breaking the restrictions.

• Huo Ling'er and the others warned the Human Youth not to provoke Yun Xi and Yun Ying, but he boasted that he would capture the twins.
• The Divine Monkey King charged into battle, drawing powerful Beast Kings into a clash and giving others a chance to enter the forest.
• Yun Ying told Yun Xi she would clear the way, then cut down dozens of monkeys with her Purple Bamboo Sword as Yun Xi broke the restrictions.
• Shi Yi noticed Yun Ying's attack while she continued fighting her way through the monkey troop.
• Several monkey chiefs surrounded Yun Ying, but she blocked their attacks and sliced one of them in half while Yun Xi pressed on toward the lake.

Yun Xi and the others fought to seize the four stalks of Quasi-Sacred Medicine at the Spirit Lake as the Divine Monkey King and hidden Beast Kings joined the battle. Yun Xi escaped with one stalk thanks to Yun Ying, who blocked the Divine Monkey King's attack before preparing to evade his next strike with her Star Sword Wings.

• Yun Ying killed the monkey chiefs while Yun Xi disabled the restrictions around the Spirit Lake and tried to uproot a stalk of Quasi-Sacred Medicine.
• Shi Yi and the other arrivals contested the medicine, but a Human Youth used a Heaven and Earth Bag to try to take all four stalks before an old wolf and other supreme Beast Kings disrupted him.
• The Divine Monkey King sealed the battlefield and attacked the gathered fighters, while Yun Xi broke his runes with her golden horn and seized a stalk of Quasi-Sacred Medicine.
• Yun Ying blocked the Divine Monkey King's golden beams with a sword blossom and sent Yun Xi away inside it with the medicine.
• The enraged Divine Monkey King attacked Yun Ying with an enormous hand, and she unfurled her Star Sword Wings to evade him.

Yun Ying escaped the Divine Monkey King, stole two silver peaches from a quasi-sacred medicine tree, and reunited with Yun Xi while the battle for the remaining medicine continued. As the exit awaited, the Divine Monkey King pursued the stolen plants, and Yun Ying cultivated in a cave, revealing a powerful, radiant core at her brow.

• Yun Ying evaded the Divine Monkey King's strike, while Old Wolf and the Beast Kings engaged him in battle.
• Yun Ying returned to the quasi-sacred medicine and plucked two silver peaches before escaping the monkeys and other attackers.
• Huo Ling'er and her companions marveled at Yun Ying's strength as she flew away and reunited with Yun Xi.
• Yun Ying gave Yun Xi one of the peaches, and the two hid while waiting for the exit to open.
• The remaining quasi-sacred medicine was divided or stolen, leaving the Divine Monkey King with only one plant, and he rampaged in pursuit of the others.
• Yun Ying sat cultivating in a cave as a brilliant, powerful core shone at her brow.

Yun Ying completed the first two stages of the Spirit Transformation Realm and returned from the Hundred Broken Mountains with Yun Xi after the Fire Kingdom Human Emperor drove off the Divine Monkey King. At Heavenly God Mountain, Yun Xi revealed that Yun Ying had helped them seize a quasi-sacred medicine.

• Yun Ying formed her Sword Body and Sword Soul, completing the first two stages of the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• The Divine Monkey King blocked the Hundred Broken Mountains exit, but the Fire Kingdom Human Emperor intervened and forced him to flee.
• Yun Ying and Yun Xi passed through the gateway, and the injured Little Golden Beast told them that Bear Child had defeated him.
• News spread that Yun Ying and Yun Xi had seized a quasi-sacred medicine and that Bear Child had taken the Immortality Spring's divine sand.
• Yun Xi told Heavenly God Mountain's clanspeople that she had failed to obtain the Immortality Divine Spring but had seized a quasi-sacred medicine with Yun Ying's help.

Yun Xi gave Yun Canghai the quasi-sacred medicine and the hide scroll Yun Ying had found, and he warned them to keep the powerful inheritance secret as the Desolate Region neared a great calamity. The Heaven Mending Pavilion was soon destroyed, and Yun Ying questioned Yun Xi about a treasure she had found in the Hundred Broken Mountains.

• Yun Ying left Yun Xi to present their quasi-sacred medicine and the hide scroll to Yun Canghai.
• Yun Canghai recognized the scroll as a dangerous God's inheritance and ordered Yun Xi to keep it secret, allowing only her and Yun Ying to cultivate it.
• Yun Canghai warned Yun Xi that a great calamity would soon engulf the Desolate Region and urged her to grow stronger and seek Yun Ying's guidance.
• News spread that the Heaven Mending Pavilion had been destroyed after its sacrificial spirit passed away during the battle against its enemies.
• Yun Ying asked Yun Xi whether she had found a treasure in the Hundred Broken Mountains, and Yun Xi nervously denied it.

Yun Ying agreed to fight Bear Child after he captured the Chi Dragon and refused to release him without a challenge. The chapter ended as Bear Child and Yun Ying exchanged their first attacks.

• Yun Ying gave Yun Xi half of the azure water divine gold she had found in the Hundred Broken Mountains.
• Yun Canghai told Yun Ying and Yun Xi that Bear Child had captured the Chi Dragon and intended to boil him.
• Yun Ying and Yun Xi entered the Void God Realm and found Bear Child preparing soup while sitting atop the captive Chi Dragon.
• Yun Ying offered to negotiate for the Chi Dragon's release, but Bear Child demanded that she defeat him first.
• Yun Ying accepted Bear Child's challenge, and they launched punches at each other amid a flood of golden symbols and runes.

Yun Ying fought Bear Child, then traded information about the Kun Peng Precious Technique and a human couple for the Chi Dragon’s release. After freeing the Chi Dragon, Yun Ying returned to Yun Xi, while Bear Child stayed behind to eat.

• Yun Ying and Bear Child fought fiercely, and Yun Ying showed her sword qi technique before offering a deal.
• Yun Ying told Bear Child that the Northern Sea Kunpeng Nest had appeared in exchange for his promise to release the Chi Dragon.
• Bear Child asked Yun Ying to investigate a man and woman, and she agreed to inquire after returning to the Primordial Sacred Mountain.
• Bear Child released the Chi Dragon, who fled, and invited Yun Ying to share the cooked meat.
• Yun Ying returned to Yun Xi, and the Golden Beast thanked her for helping them.

Yun Ying fulfilled her promise to Bear Child by finding news of the human couple, then learned that the Kunpeng Nest had emerged in the North Sea and joined the sacred mountains' young experts setting out to claim the Kun Peng Precious Technique. The group prepared to enter the sea under cultivation-suppressing restrictions, where Yun Ying reunited with Yin Xue and Lian'er.

• Yun Ying told Yun Canghai that Bear Child had opened his tenth Cave Heaven and asked him to investigate the human couple whose portraits Bear Child had provided.
• Yun Ying and Yun Xi returned to the Void God Realm and told Bear Child that the couple had left the Desolate Region for the Outer Region after seeking the Sacred Medicine.
• Bear Child taunted Yun Xi about capturing her and other ferocious beasts, then ran off before she could retaliate.
• News spread that the Kunpeng Nest had emerged in the North Sea, and the sacred mountains agreed that their young experts would compete for the Kun Peng Precious Technique under the Nest's cultivation restrictions.
• Yun Ying joined the departing forces and greeted Yin Xue and Lian'er, while Yun Xi noted that few people dared to joke comfortably with Yun Ying.

Yun Ying and her companions traveled through perilous waters toward the Kunpeng Nest, surviving attacks and discovering that the Forbidden Sea’s seal had begun to fluctuate. They continued onward amid signs of powerful arrivals and ominous ghost ships.

• The elders opened a Five-Colored Passage and sent Yun Ying and six or seven hundred others to the North Sea.
• The Red-Haired Boy summoned a treasure ship, and Yun Ying advised flying above the sea to avoid its creatures.
• More than a thousand sea demons attacked the ship, but the Divine Servants sped through their runes and broke free of a seabed killing formation.
• Yun Ying and her companions crossed into the Forbidden Sea, where the Divine Servants discovered that the seal intermittently stopped suppressing their cultivation.
• The group saw many races heading toward the Kunpeng Nest and steered clear of eerie black paper ghost ships.

Yun Ying and her companions crossed the perilous sea and reached the true Kunpeng Nest, where cultivators battled under the Nest’s power-suppressing ripples. After arriving at the Nest’s island, Yun Ying urged Yun Xi and the others not to rush, warning that Kun Peng’s legacy would choose its own inheritor.

• Yun Ying and her companions approached the Kunpeng Nest as its golden ripples suppressed powerful cultivators and the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow fought the Flood Dragon Venerable.
• Yun Ying’s group endured weeks of travel and battles before reaching the stone cliff, where the ripples permanently suppressed cultivators above the spirit transformation realm.
• Yun Ying, Yun Xi, and the others entered a formation that transported them to a realm of islands surrounding the true Kunpeng Nest.
• The red-haired youth and blue-haired youth charged toward the Nest, while Yun Ying stopped Yun Xi and the others and warned that Kun Peng’s legacy would not be obtained easily.

Yun Ying parted from Yun Xi’s group and went alone to the Kunpeng Nest, where she found a mysterious gateway containing a Kun Wood Branch and intact leaf. As Mo Shang arrived and claimed the area, Yun Ying formed a lifelike carp from Sword Dao Runes near the gateway.

• Yun Ying separated from Yun Xi and the others, then headed alone toward the island reef.
• Yun Ying examined the blazing gateway and its river of spiritual essence while Bear Child taunted her.
• Cultivators spotted a radiant Kun Wood Branch with an intact leaf inside the gateway, and many rushed to seize it, only to die upon entering.
• Bear Child warned Yun Ying not to approach the gateway, but Yun Ying said she had her own way.
• Mo Shang arrived, blasted cultivators aside, and claimed the gateway area as he sought the Kun Wood.
• Yun Ying raised her hand and transformed a wisp of Sword Dao Runes into a lifelike crystal carp.

Yun Ying used runes to turn a carp into a fish dragon that passed through the gateway and retrieved the kun wood. When Mo Shang attacked to claim it, Yun Ying blocked his trident and sent him flying with a sword strike.

• Yun Ying guided a rune-formed carp through the gateway’s barrier, transforming it into a fish dragon that seized the kun wood and returned to her.
• The fish dragon dissolved into runes before Yun Ying, revealing that she had created it, while the crowd and Mo Shang rushed to claim the kun wood.
• Mo Shang charged Yun Ying with his trident, and she met his blow with the Purple Bamboo Sword.
• Yun Ying’s sword energy struck Mo Shang’s trident and sent him flying, shocking the gathered fighters.

Yun Ying defeated the Sea God's descendant and kept the Kun Wood she had obtained, while the Red-Haired Boy intervened to fight the descendant. After exploring the Kunpeng Nest without finding its inheritance, Yun Ying reunited with Yun Xi and revealed how Kun Wood had transformed her Purple Bamboo Sword.

• Yun Ying wounded the Sea God's descendant with the Purple Bamboo Sword and declared that he was no match for her.
• The Red-Haired Boy attacked the Sea God's descendant, drawing Yun Ying's attention away from their fight.
• Yun Ying returned to the Kunpeng Nest and learned that Yun Xi and the others had entered, but she chose to wait outside.
• Half a month later, Yun Xi and the others emerged without finding the Kun Peng Precious Technique or reaching the nest's central cultivation grounds.
• Yun Ying told Yun Xi that she had refined the surviving heartwood of the Kun Wood into the Purple Bamboo Sword, which had become as powerful as a sacred artifact.

Yun Xi accepted Yun Ying’s Kun Wood leaf and set out to cultivate in the Yang Extreme Cave and Mystic Ice Abyss, while Yun Ying meditated atop the Kunpeng Nest with her transformed sword. After Bear Child and a black-clad girl attacked the Sea God’s descendant, they later approached Yun Ying, intending to take her Kun Wood.

• Yun Ying gave Yun Xi the Kun Wood leaf and advised her to cultivate in the Yang Extreme Cave and Mystic Ice Abyss, then left with the Purple Bamboo Sword.
• Yun Xi chose to visit the caves with her Divine Servants, while Yin Xue and Lian'er declined and went to consult Qing Yun and the others.
• Yun Ying meditated atop the Kunpeng Nest, drawing on the transformed sword’s Kun Wood power to contemplate the Dao.
• Bear Child struck the Sea God’s descendant with the God-Striking Stone and escaped with a black-clad girl as Yun Ying watched and recognized the stone.
• Days later, Bear Child and the black-clad girl sneaked onto the nest and discussed taking Yun Ying’s Kun Wood, though the girl worried about provoking someone so powerful.

Bear Child and the Black-Clothed Girl failed to rob Yun Ying, then became notorious bandits as the North Sea Kunpeng Nest drew powerful forces. Two years later, Yun Ying had defeated every group that came after her for the kun wood and was left undisturbed near the Nest.

• Bear Child hurled the God-Striking Stone at Yun Ying, but her sword energy knocked it away and sent it back to him in pain.
• Yun Ying woke and noticed Bear Child and the Black-Clothed Girl, who fled before she could confront them.
• Bear Child admitted the kun wood was his excuse for provoking Yun Ying, while the Black-Clothed Girl guessed he wanted her attention.
• Bear Child and the Black-Clothed Girl became bandits, even robbing the Flood Dragon Venerable's spirit body, as experts gathered outside the Kunpeng Nest.
• Over two years, Yun Ying killed those who sought her kun wood and once wiped out tens of thousands of attackers with a zither melody, frightening others away.