Recaps

Yun Ying effortlessly suppressed and shattered Immortal Mountain’s Five Elements Ring, while Shi Hao killed the kings of the Flame Python Clan and the Black Cloud Clan. He then pursued the fleeing Immortal Mountain group and slaughtered them all, leaving his conflict with Immortal Mountain beyond repair.

• Yun Ying trapped Qin Shoucheng’s Five Elements Ring in her hand and shattered it, destroying the divine sense inside.
• The crowd marveled at Yun Ying’s strength, while Shi Hao reflected on how her Sword Dao differed from the technique he had learned.
• Shi Hao killed the kings of the Flame Python Clan and the Black Cloud Clan after they tried to flee.
• Shi Hao confronted the Immortal Mountain group, and Qin Shoucheng fled with Qin Chao while the others ran.
• Shi Hao pursued the Immortal Mountain group with the Kun Peng Precious Technique and killed every one of them.

Yun Xi and Yun Ying told Shi Hao that their clan needed the peacock egg, Baldy, to survive an approaching calamity, and offered to help him and his clansmen escape to the Upper Realm. Shi Hao agreed to let them speak with Baldy at his village, leaving his companions to tease him over his apparent intentions toward the two women.

• After the battle, Yun Ying reminded Shi Hao that he owed her a favor, and Yun Xi asked him to return Baldy, the peacock egg from the Hundred Broken Mountains.
• Yun Xi explained in a soundproofed formation that a great calamity threatened beings below the Venerable Realm and revealed that the Eight Regions were the lower realm beneath the Upper Realm.
• Yun Xi offered to help Shi Hao and his clansmen escape, and Shi Hao said she and Yun Ying could try to persuade Baldy themselves at his village.
• Yun Xi and Yun Ying left to trade for materials, while the others teased Shi Hao for supposedly luring them home to guard his village.
• Shi Hao shouted after the women, asking Yun Ying to answer the question he had asked her earlier in the Void God Realm.

Shi Hao joked about pursuing Yun Ying, angering Yun Xi, while the twins reunited with the Golden-Winged Roc brothers during a trade for artifact-forging materials. Yun Ying accepted Jin Yunxiao’s offer to brew tea after they returned to the sacred mountain, while Jin Yunteng remained unable to get closer to Yun Xi.

• Shi Hao hinted that he wanted to pursue Yun Ying, and Yun Xi angrily pulled her sister away from him.
• Yun Xi warned Yun Ying that Shi Hao was interested in her, but Yun Ying dismissed his teasing and agreed to listen to her sister.
• Yun Xi and Yun Ying traded with Jin Yunteng and Jin Yunxiao, who offered them rare artifact-forging materials.
• Jin Yunxiao invited Yun Ying to drink tea, and she agreed to let him invite her after they returned to the sacred mountain.
• Jin Yunteng watched his brother succeed in inviting Yun Ying while Yun Xi continued to keep her distance from him.

Shi Hao bought spirit medicines in Medicine Capital and refined them to advance his cultivation, but a supreme elder of the Divine Medicine Sect arrived to seize his golden pills. The chapter ended as Lin Kun attacked Shi Hao, reaching for both pills.

• Yun Ying and her companions finished trading medicines and sent their clansmen back to Heavenly God Mountain while she, Yun Xi, and Shi Hao went to Medicine Capital.
• Shi Hao asked the Nine-Headed Lion and the others to buy spirit medicines for him, and Yun Ying revealed that she had reached the late stage of the Array Formation Realm.
• After nearly a full day of purchases, Shi Hao rented a courtyard, tempered himself in a Medicine Cauldron, and advanced to the middle stage of the Array Formation Realm.
• Shi Hao refined two golden pills from the remaining medicinal potency and offered them to Yun Ying and the others, who refused them.
• Lin Kun, a supreme elder of the Divine Medicine Sect, demanded one pill as compensation and then conjured a huge earthen-yellow hand to take both pills.

Shi Hao shattered Lin Kun’s hand, but a mysterious inscription made the Divine Medicine Sect elder invulnerable, and the Gray-Clad Woman summoned Shi Hao away after recognizing the black broken sword. Yun Ying and the others waited at the hill’s foot while Lin Kun, realizing Shi Hao might return alive, begged Yun Ying to help save him.

• Shi Hao punched apart Lin Kun’s enormous hand, and Lin Kun apologized before returning with protection from a powerful written character.
• Shi Hao drew the black broken sword, which brought the Gray-Clad Woman; she summoned him to a low hill on a golden road of light.
• Yun Ying sensed that the Gray-Clad Woman had grown weary, while Lin Kun mocked Yun Ying until the others identified her as the Sword Immortal Maiden.
• Yun Ying explained to Yun Xi, Huo Ling'er, and the others that the Gray-Clad Woman’s long life had likely made her weary as they went to wait below the hill.
• Lin Kun rushed to Yun Ying and begged her to persuade Shi Hao to spare his life when he returned.

Yun Ying arranged for Lin Kun to compensate Shi Hao, who received four Strange Medicines and clues to an Imperial Butterfly. Shi Hao obtained the butterfly larva and left with Yun Ying and the others for Stone Village after provoking Yun Xi and Huo Ling'er.

• Yun Ying stopped Lin Kun from kneeling and persuaded Shi Hao to accept compensation for Lin Kun's offense.
• Lin Kun gave Shi Hao four Strange Medicines and clues to the Imperial Butterfly in exchange for sparing him.
• Yun Ying and the others found the Imperial Butterfly larva sealed in a Divine Ice Jar beneath the Gray-Clad Woman's mountain, and Shi Hao took it.
• Shi Hao tried to persuade Yun Ying and Yun Xi to help raise the larva, then angered Yun Xi and Huo Ling'er with his teasing.
• Shi Hao led Yun Ying and the others toward Stone Village.

Shi Hao brought Yun Ying and the others to Stone Village, where Yun Ying recognized a kindred spirit in the Willow Deity. After they shared a vision of their Dao and learned about each other, they parted with mutual understanding.

• Shi Hao led Yun Ying and the others to Stone Village and introduced its sacred willow as the Sacrificial Spirit.
• Shi Hao carried Huo Ling'er and Yun Xi into the village while Yun Ying stayed behind to gaze at the willow.
• Yun Ying and the Willow Deity sensed that they shared a familiar aura and sat down to meet face-to-face.
• Yun Ying and the Willow Deity exchanged Great Dao symbols, manifesting as a towering willow and an unrivaled immortal sword.
• Yun Ying revealed that she had been a man in her previous mortal life, and the Willow Deity recognized her exceptional state of mind and shared pursuit of the Dao.

Yun Ying and the Willow Deity shared a heartfelt conversation about the Dao before Yun Ying played a zither melody that moved the villagers and helped them comprehend the Great Dao. After the performance, Baldy arrived and told Yun Xi and Yun Ying to stay and become someone’s wives.

• Yun Ying and the Willow Deity praised each other’s paths and lamented that the coming calamity might keep them apart.
• Yun Ying played the Willow Deity a melody on her purple zither, and Great Dao Symbols appeared as the music resonated through the village.
• Yun Xi, Shi Hao, the Nine-Headed Lion, and the villagers listened to Yun Ying’s music and gained insights into the Dao.
• The villagers mistook Yun Ying for another woman involved with Shi Hao, prompting Huo Ling'er and Yun Xi to glare at him.
• Baldy arrived, rejected Yun Xi’s request to return to Heavenly God Mountain, and told Yun Xi and Yun Ying to stay and become someone’s wives.