Recaps

Li Xian pushed his body and swordsmanship beyond their limits during his battle with Yuan Xing, transforming into the Great Freedom Heavenly Demon Undying Body and gaining the upper hand. He killed Yuan Xing with Passing on the Torch, triggering an urgent high-clearance review by the Great Luo Immortal Sect’s assessment system.

• Li Xian shattered Yuan Xing’s Sword Force and wounded him, stunning Ning Qingshu, Chen Jianghai, and Qin Wuyi.
• As their battle continued, Li Xian’s body transformed into the Great Freedom Heavenly Demon Undying Body, while his swordsmanship began to develop a path of its own.
• Li Xian overwhelmed Yuan Xing with Recreate Heaven and Earth, breaking his defenses and driving him into fear.
• Li Xian unleashed Passing on the Torch, and its sun-like Sword Astral Force tore Yuan Xing apart.
• The Haotian Mirror Spirit’s system reported Li Xian’s improved assessment results, a top-one-thousand ranking, and an urgent high-clearance review.

Li Xian killed Yuan Xing, then defeated Chen Jianghai and Ning Qingshu when they tried to attack him. After sparing Qin Wuyi, he resumed tending to his injuries.

• Li Xian killed Yuan Xing with a sword strike, leaving Ning Qingshu, Chen Jianghai, and Qin Wuyi stunned.
• Li Xian swallowed a Six Harmonies Life-Origin Pill and sat down to heal, but Ning Qingshu moved to attack him while Chen Jianghai blocked Qin Wuyi.
• Chen Jianghai launched a desperate sword strike at Li Xian, who deflected it with one finger and killed him with a sword-finger thrust.
• Ning Qingshu begged Li Xian for mercy, but he hurled Chen Jianghai's sword through her skull and killed her.
• Li Xian nodded to Qin Wuyi, showing he would not hold him accountable, then closed his eyes and returned to healing.

After Li Xian recovered from battle, the Haotian Mirror Spirit revealed that the Red-Scaled Fish Demon and Yuan Xing had been part of a sect assessment, which Li Xian passed with an excellent rating. His place among the sect’s top thousand historical prodigies earned him four special training options, and he chose expanded access to cultivation methods and secret arts.

• Qin Wuyi guarded Li Xian while he regulated his breathing and cleared nearby Fish Demons.
• The Haotian Mirror Spirit introduced itself to Li Xian and explained that the Red-Scaled Fish Demon and Yuan Xing had been stages of an assessment.
• Xuanling revealed that Li Xian had earned an excellent rating and ranked among the top thousand prodigies in the Great Luo Immortal Sect’s history.
• Xuanling presented four training plans: recommendation to Yue Jiuxiao, instruction from a sect elder, a property and Dao protector, or expanded privileges to browse and exchange for resources.
• Li Xian chose expanded privileges so he could study the sect’s cultivation methods and secret arts.

After Xuanling explained the sect’s prodigy rankings and warned that Li Xian’s recognition brought resources rather than special privileges, Li Xian prepared to leave the Cloudmist Swamp Trial. Qi Huo and the Qi Family Elites discovered that he had killed prominent members of the Immortal Light Society, Mysterious Radiance Society, and Taiyi Pavilion, leaving their groups seemingly ruined.

• Xuanling explained the ranks from Crouching Dragon in the Abyss to Shining Across the Heavens and encouraged Li Xian to keep advancing.
• After Xuanling departed, Li Xian recovered and gathered the Magic Artifacts from the battlefield, while Qin Wuyi left and reflected on Li Xian’s strength.
• Li Xian told Qi Huo to appraise and sell the Magic Artifacts, offered her one percent as payment, and headed deeper into the mist to leave the trial.
• Qi Huo and the Qi Family Elites identified the corpses and weapons of Wang Quan, Ning Qingshu, Chen Jianghai, He Jianshan, Zhao Xuantong, and other prominent disciples.
• The Qi Family Elites concluded that the Immortal Light Society, Mysterious Radiance Society, and Taiyi Pavilion had been finished.

Li Xian remained in seclusion while news of his slaughter of the Three Great Forces caused the Immortal Light Society, Mysterious Radiance Society, and Taiyi Pavilion to disband. As his allies discussed a proposed reconciliation with Yan Cailian, Nangong Zhaoying arrived seeking confirmation of a rumor that Li Xian had killed a Dao Foundation cultivator.

• Li Xian ignored the aftermath of the Cloudmist Swamp Trial and immersed himself in the Great Luo Immortal Sect’s cultivation methods and secret arts.
• Yun Tiankuo told Hua Siyu that Li Xian had killed Wang Dao and wiped out the leaders and elites of the three societies after they attacked him, leaving their organizations broken apart.
• Hua Siyu decided to remove herself from the ranking after Yun Tiankuo warned her to keep a low profile.
• Xu Changan demanded that Xiang Yangsheng and the others summon Li Xian, claiming Li Xian should meet with Yan Cailian’s people and apologize to protect Nangong Feixu from political trouble.
• Nangong Zhaoying told Xiang Yangsheng that Li Xian was refusing visitors and asked whether the rumor that he had killed a Dao Foundation cultivator during the trial was true.

After Li Xian confirmed that he had killed a Dao Foundation cultivator from Xingtian Hall, Nangong Zhaoying’s circle pledged to support him, while Xu Changan feared Li Xian’s strength and faced scrutiny for acting without permission. A year later, An Jing visited Li Xian, who remained determined to test whether a legend beyond Shining Across the Heavens could be written.

• Nangong Zhaoying told Xiang Yangsheng and the others that rumors claimed Li Xian had defeated an Entering the Dao expert and killed a Dao Foundation cultivator from Xingtian Hall.
• Xiang Yangsheng messaged Li Xian, who confirmed the rumor with the single word, “Yes.”
• Zhang Yue concluded that Yan Cailian and her allies had sought peace because they feared Li Xian’s potential, and Nangong Zhaoying reprimanded Xu Changan for acting on his own authority.
• Nangong Zhaoying instructed Xiang Yangsheng and the others to follow Li Xian’s directions and protect his seclusion.
• Over the following year, rumors about Li Xian’s feat faded among the sect’s higher ranks, while Yan Cailian, Cheng Wanli, and Wang Xiangdong received no reply to their invitation to Li Xian.
• One year later, An Jing spoke with Li Xian about cultivation and the limits of talent, and Li Xian resolved to pursue a legend beyond Shining Across the Heavens.

After An Jing warned Li Xian about delaying his breakthrough and the dangers facing prodigies, Li Xian reconsidered his scattered cultivation and resolved to forge the Chaos Heavenly Demon Body. As the ranking’s strongest candidates advanced with weaker Dao Foundations to avoid being overshadowed, Li Xian found himself without rivals and received an invitation to Yan Shui Rou’s Dao Foundation celebration.

• An Jing told Li Xian about his assignment to the White Rock Rift Valley and advised him to focus on strength rather than spending too long pursuing a peerless Dao Foundation.
• Li Xian realized that his pursuit of too many physiques and cultivation methods had kept him from sensing the Heavenly Gate, so he decided to unify his physique traits around the Chaos Heavenly Demon Body.
• Li Xian refined the Chaos Heavenly Demon Body over time as the Entering-the-Dao Candidates Ranking changed and its former top candidates advanced with lower-grade Dao Foundations.
• Li Xian discovered that no familiar figures remained in the ranking’s top ten and regretted that his victory had driven potential challengers to break through.
• Xiang Yangsheng brought Li Xian an invitation from Yan Shui Rou to attend her Dao Foundation celebration.

Li Xian accepted Yan Shui Rou’s invitation after learning it might explain Liu Yanran’s past choices, then attended Yan Shui Rou’s Dao Foundation celebration. Yan Shui Rou revealed that she had schemed to bring about Li Xian’s earlier disgrace, leaving their confrontation poised to continue.

• Li Xian initially refused Yan Shui Rou’s invitation but changed his mind after reading her message about Liu Yanran.
• Qi Huo told Li Xian that the sect’s minor tournament would offer a Heavenly Gate Dao-Comprehension Pill as its first-place prize.
• Xiang Yangsheng brought Li Xian to Yan Shui Rou’s celebration, where Qi Liang and Jiang Xiaoyu reacted with surprise and tried to turn him away.
• Yan Shui Rou said she had invited Li Xian to prove she could surpass him and finally put her resentment at ease.
• Li Xian asked whether Yan Shui Rou had been behind his earlier misfortune, and she admitted that she had schemed against him.

Yan Shui Rou publicly accused Li Xian of betraying his loved ones and teachers, then accepted his challenge to kill him. When she attacked with her Dao Foundation Realm strength, Li Xian stopped her sword with one finger, leaving the outcome of the duel unresolved.

• Yan Shui Rou denounced Li Xian before the guests, while Xiang Yangsheng argued that she had exploited her power against an ordinary person.
• Li Xian asked Jiang Xiaoyu whether she was the childhood sweetheart in Yan Shui Rou's story, and Jiang Xiaoyu replied that it did not matter.
• Li Xian challenged Yan Shui Rou to kill him, and she accepted, boasting that she had waited until her Dao Foundation was strong enough to suppress him.
• Yan Shui Rou attacked Li Xian with a powerful sword strike, but Li Xian met it with his Chaos Heavenly Demon Body and Sword Force.
• Li Xian stopped Yan Shui Rou's blade with one finger, absorbing the force and true qi behind her attack.

Li Xian defeated Yan Shui Rou at the Foundation Establishment celebration and destroyed her cultivation after she realized Yan Cailian had used her as a pawn. He refused to kill Yan Shui Rou, but threw her into a lotus pond with shattered meridians and left her to try to crawl out.

• Yan Shui Rou repeatedly attacked Li Xian, but he blocked her sword with one finger and overwhelmed her.
• Li Xian explained that Yan Cailian had used Yan Shui Rou as a pawn, and he charged forward to disarm and seize her.
• Li Xian slammed Yan Shui Rou into the ground until Jiang Xiaoyu pleaded with him to spare her.
• Li Xian said he should be punished too, then destroyed Yan Shui Rou's cultivation and meridians.
• Li Xian dragged Yan Shui Rou to a lotus pond and threw her in, saying he would not kill her if she could crawl out herself.

Li Xian killed Yan Shui Rou after she repeatedly plotted against him, then realized his cultivation arts had merged into a new method called the Primordial Unity Wuji Art. He left with Xiang Yangsheng and met Nangong Feixu, who offered him a cultivation guide, while her vassal state’s unrest remained unresolved.

• Li Xian left Yan Shui Rou to drown in the lotus pond, and Jiang Xiaoyu retrieved her corpse after the guests departed.
• Li Xian sensed the Heavenly Gate, recognized that his integrated cultivation arts had merged, and named the new method the Primordial Unity Wuji Art.
• Li Xian warned Jiang Xiaoyu not to let others use her, then departed with Xiang Yangsheng.
• Nangong Feixu summoned Li Xian to Snow Moon Peak and gave him a booklet documenting the cultivation paths of the sect’s past prodigies.
• Li Xian offered to help resolve the unrest in Nangong Feixu’s vassal state, but she told him to focus on cultivation.

After killing Yan Shui Rou, Li Xian became famous across the sect, while Yan Cailian accepted that their conflict would be settled by strength. Li Xian then broke through the Heavenly Gate and completed his primordial unity Dao foundation.

• News of Li Xian killing Yan Shui Rou spread through the Inner Sect, drawing attention from disciples and elders and leaving Ren Shanhe regretting that he had not invested in him.
• Yan Cailian refused to send Yan Yu to Li Xian, declaring that their feud could only be resolved within the sect’s rules and that she did not fear him despite his talent.
• Li Xian won the year-end minor tournament by default, received a Heavenly Gate Dao-Comprehension Pill, and sent it to Zhong Lingxiu to repay his debt.
• After consolidating his cultivation, Li Xian struck the Heavenly Gate with his gathered spirit and will, shattered it, and drew an unprecedented flood of vital energy into his body.
• Li Xian used the Chaos Heavenly Demon Body and his sword force to reshape himself under the flood of vital energy, completing his primordial unity Dao foundation.

Li Xian forged a peerless Dao foundation, greatly surpassing the limits of the human body. After adapting to his new strength, he learned that his rating remained provisional and received guidance on choosing his next cultivation path.

• Li Xian opened the Heavenly Gate and drew in vital energy, prompting Qi Huo, Qi Xi, Zhao Guihai, and others to secure the area as he established his Dao foundation.
• Li Xian completed the breakthrough smoothly, and Qi Xi declared that his vast reserves indicated a peerless Dao foundation.
• Li Xian experienced his body's dramatic increase in strength, speed, defense, and other abilities, then spent three days adapting to the changes.
• Xuanling explained that Li Xian's rating remained Brilliant Scorching Sun until he proved himself in combat, and advised him to choose his next spell according to his own path.
• Li Xian received core disciple access and an invitation to choose a fief, then found a message from Yan Cailian congratulating him and asking whether he was ready.

Li Xian chose Fuli True Body to complement his Primordial Unity Dao Foundation and began cultivating it, but the slow, costly process drove him to seek more Merit Points. After forging his Dao Foundation, he left to claim a fief, accompanied by Zhao Guihai and congratulated by fellow disciples.

• Li Xian considered the difficulty of killing a core disciple under a sect elder’s watch, then studied the spells and supreme wondrous arts in the Transmission Hall.
• Li Xian chose Fuli True Body because its requirements suited the devouring, chaos, limitlessness, and undying traits of his Primordial Unity Dao Foundation.
• Li Xian spent nearly a month refining adamantine metal and Nine Nether Iron, suffering severe strain while progressing only one-tenth of the first layer.
• Li Xian realized that cultivating Fuli True Body would require vast Merit Points and decided to claim a fief to earn more.
• Li Xian replied to congratulatory messages, prepared to visit the Garrison Hall, and left with Zhao Guihai as Qi Huo, Qi Xi, Xiang Yangsheng, Zhang Yue, Xun Dao, and Nangong Zhaoying congratulated him.

Zhong Lingxiu received a Heavenly Gate Dao-Comprehension Pill from Li Xian and learned he had forged a peerless Dao Foundation, while Zhou Juechen chose to recommend Hongyu to join him. Li Xian selected Jade Dragon Island in the dangerous Falling Star Sea as his fief, and Nangong Feixu offered to accompany him there.

• Tang Yi delivered Zhong Lingxiu a Heavenly Gate Dao-Comprehension Pill from Li Xian and told her Li Xian had already forged a peerless Dao Foundation.
• Tang Yi suggested Zhong Lingxiu and her people join Li Xian to help develop his fief, and Zhou Juechen chose to give Hongyu that opportunity instead of taking it himself.
• Nangong Feixu congratulated Li Xian on his breakthrough and gave him a flying sword.
• Li Xian chose Jade Dragon Island in the Falling Star Sea as his fief despite the danger and high death toll there.
• Nangong Feixu said she had a fief in the Falling Star Sea and offered to travel with Li Xian.

Li Xian spent his Merit Points and traveled with Nangong Feixu aboard a Heavenly Ark toward her Fief in the Falling Star Sea. There, Nangong Feixu planned to confront reports of Sea Serpent Clan members, while an old acquaintance, Shen Zangxing, left after learning she would not travel with him.

• Li Xian calculated the resources he needed to cultivate Magic Power and complete the first level of the Fuli True Body, but found the materials too expensive.
• Nangong Feixu took Li Xian to a Heavenly Ark bound for the Danxia Sword Sect and explained the dangers of the Falling Star Sea.
• Elder Zong Shuo welcomed Nangong Feixu and Li Xian aboard, warning that the route faced attacks from demons, including the Sea Serpent Clan.
• Shen Zangxing caught up with the Heavenly Ark and offered to accompany Nangong Feixu to her Fief after hearing Sea Serpent Clan members had appeared nearby.
• Nangong Feixu declined Shen Zangxing's offer and told him to leave, then returned to her quarters after he departed.

Yan Cailian and Cheng Wanli planned to kill Li Xian, but learned that Nangong Feixu was protecting him and that his fief lay in the Falling Star Sea. Aboard the Heavenly Ark, Li Xian joined Nangong Feixu, Xiao Baichuan, and An Ruyi in a plan to hunt the Nine Fiends of the Nether Sea.

• Yan Cailian rejected Cheng Wanli’s suggestion to use Great Zhou against Great Wei and insisted that Li Xian had to be eliminated.
• After hearing Li Xian was heading to his fief with Nangong Feixu, Yan Cailian decided to act personally, while Cheng Wanli agreed to help restrain Nangong Feixu.
• Yan Zhenxing discovered that Li Xian’s fief was in the Falling Star Sea, and Cheng Wanli recognized that the Heavenly Ark was headed toward his Danxia Sect connections.
• Nangong Feixu introduced Li Xian to Xiao Baichuan and An Ruyi aboard the Heavenly Ark, and they described their hunt for the Nine Fiends of the Nether Sea.
• Xiao Baichuan offered Li Xian and the others shares of the spoils, and Li Xian agreed to join their hunt once they reached the Falling Star Sea.

As Nangong Feixu, Xiao Baichuan, An Ruyi, and Li Xian pursued the Nine Fiends of the Nether Sea, they found ten enemies waiting on an island inside a demonic formation. Li Xian discovered that devouring Ghost Sha rapidly advanced his Fuli True Body and raised his magic power to ten percent, then chased down the weakened cultivator who had attacked him.

• Xiao Baichuan used the Truth-Seeking Compass to locate the Nine Fiends of the Nether Sea, and Nangong Feixu led the group from the Heavenly Ark to approach them underwater.
• An Ruyi sensed ten people on the island, and the group entered the Black Heaven Demonic Balefulness Formation after Xuanyou raised a banner and mistook them for pursuers.
• Li Xian confronted a gaunt middle-aged cultivator, shattered most of his Ghost Sha with a punch, and discovered he could devour the baleful energy.
• Li Xian absorbed the Ghost Sha and an icy magic-power attack, refining them through the Origin-Devouring Technique and increasing his magic power from five to ten percent.
• Li Xian pursued the middle-aged cultivator as he fled and devoured another attack before the man surrendered and begged for his life.

Li Xian killed several Nine Fiends of the Nether Sea cultivators while Nangong Feixu defeated Xuanyou and uncovered a formation tied to the Heavenly Sha Devil Sect. The group gathered at the formation, where Li Xian discovered that its baleful energy could help his cultivation.

• Li Xian saw through a bandit cultivator’s feigned surrender, killed him, then killed a brawny cultivator and a thin Mana Realm cultivator who attacked him.
• Nangong Feixu defeated Xuanyou, and the demonic qi shrouding the island dispersed as Li Xian and the others regrouped.
• The group compared their kills, with Li Xian reporting that he had killed two Mana Realm cultivators and one Dao Foundation Realm cultivator.
• Nangong Feixu showed the others a formation over a deep fissure that drew out baleful energy using netherworld marrow.
• Nangong Feixu identified the formation and Xuanyou’s techniques as connected to the Heavenly Sha Devil Sect, and explained that he had used the formation to temper his Second-Realm Dharma Treasure.
• Li Xian absorbed and refined the escaping baleful energy, then said it could help him cultivate.

Li Xian absorbed the fissure’s baleful energy to cultivate, but it overwhelmed him until Nangong Feixu gave him her Solar True Gold. He consumed it, balanced the energy, and completed the first level of the Fuli True Body, entering the Mana Realm.

• Nangong Feixu activated the Netherworld Baleful Refining Formation and drew Earth Sha from the fissure while Xiao Baichuan and An Ruyi stood guard.
• Li Xian channeled the baleful energy into himself, rapidly refining Fine Gold and increasing his magic power, but the energy froze his body and threatened to overwhelm him.
• Nangong Feixu gave Li Xian her Solar True Gold to dispel the frost, and Li Xian swallowed it before she could finish explaining what it was.
• The accumulated baleful energy began corroding the Solar True Gold, allowing Li Xian’s magic power to surge and his True Qi to convert completely.
• Li Xian entered the Mana Realm, formed dark-gold armor and weapons from his magic power, and completed the first level of the Fuli True Body.

Li Xian cultivated magic power and refined solar true gold into Xiantian metal qi, learning Sun-Chasing Sword Qi. He set out with Nangong Feixu for their fiefs, but his new sword-flight spell exhausted his magic power over the open sea, leaving Nangong Feixu to carry him onward.

• Li Xian entered the Mana Realm and chose Sun-Chasing Sword Qi to refine solar true gold into Xiantian metal qi, enduring the dangerous process until his lungs adapted.
• After a month of cultivation, Li Xian learned from Nangong Feixu that Elder Xiao and Elder An had returned to the sect, then told her he was heading to his fief.
• Nangong Feixu warned Li Xian that he would need four other powerful kinds of Xiantian qi to balance his five elements and offered to look for profitable missions.
• Li Xian updated his Identity Token and considered developing the traits of his Chaos Heavenly Demon Body if he could not afford the other Xiantian qi.
• Nangong Feixu taught Li Xian how to use sword qi for flight, and he outpaced her with Sun-Chasing Sword Qi before running out of magic power over the sea.
• Nangong Feixu laughed and offered to fly Li Xian the rest of the way.

Nangong Feixu and Li Xian reached her fief in the Zhoutian Archipelago and found it under attack by the Sea Serpent Clan. After they saved the harbor, the elders reported escalating raids and asked Nangong Feixu to consider joining a nearby island’s plan to hunt the sea serpents.

• Nangong Feixu explained to Li Xian the cultivation stages of Three Flowers Gather at the Crown and the danger and abilities involved.
• Nangong Feixu and Li Xian arrived at her fief and found thousands of defenders fighting sea serpents at the harbor.
• Li Xian killed three greater demons with Sun-Chasing Sword Qi, and Nangong Feixu used Lunar Realm Mysterious Light to slay the remaining attackers.
• Elder Sun told Nangong Feixu that this was the third Sea Serpent Clan attack that year and that defending the fief was becoming too costly.
• Another elder told Nangong Feixu that Azure Dragon Island had identified a sea serpent group and asked her to consider joining a joint attack.

Nangong Feixu and Li Xian traveled to Azure Dragon Island to hunt sea serpents that had infiltrated the Falling Star Sea. After learning the serpents’ last known location, they left to pursue them, while Elder Yanbing sent news of their mission to the chief True Inheritor.

• Nangong Feixu agreed to hunt the sea serpents with Li Xian and took the stardust sand from the island before they departed.
• After they left, Elder Sun and Elder Cao praised Li Xian’s exceptional talent and speculated that he could become a True Inheritor and forge an immortal Golden Core.
• Nangong Feixu and Li Xian reached Azure Dragon Island, where Elder Yun Chao reported the sea serpents’ strength and marked their last known location on her map.
• Nangong Feixu declined Elder Yanbing’s invitation and left with Li Xian to pursue the sea serpents.
• Elder Yun Chao reasoned that Nangong Feixu’s small party might draw out the serpents, and Elder Yanbing sent word that they were going after them.

Yan Cailian, Cheng Wanli, and Jiang Rufeng plotted to kill Li Xian and disguise his death as an attack by the Sea Serpent Clan. Unaware of the plot, Li Xian and Nangong Feixu fought the sea serpents on a nearby island, where Li Xian turned his attention to a powerful Fourth Realm serpent.

• Yan Cailian met Cheng Wanli and Jiang Rufeng, and they agreed to travel to the Falling Star Sea to kill Li Xian and make his death appear to be the Sea Serpent Clan’s doing.
• Nangong Feixu used Ripple Art to detect sea serpents approaching them, and she and Li Xian retreated to a nearby island to choose the battlefield.
• Li Xian and Nangong Feixu attacked the sea serpents as they came ashore.
• Li Xian overwhelmed and killed a peak Third Realm Six-Armed Sea Serpent, then asked Nangong Feixu to spare a Fourth Realm serpent so he could fight it himself.

Li Xian fought a Fourth Realm Six-Armed Sea Serpent whose starlight crystal let it resist Nangong Feixu’s freezing spell. After Li Xian knocked the crystal away, he drove the unprotected serpent high into the sky and tore it apart with repeated attacks.

• Nangong Feixu warned Li Xian about the risks of damaging his spell, and he charged the Six-Armed Sea Serpent with his sword.
• The sea serpent’s axe strike revealed its Fourth Realm spiritual sense, and it blasted Li Xian backward before he retaliated with a high-speed dive.
• The serpent’s starlight body resisted Nangong Feixu’s Lunar Realm Mysterious Light, while Li Xian’s repeated attacks exposed a deep-blue crystal beneath its scales.
• Li Xian used Sword Refining into Threads to pull the crystal away, leaving the sea serpent without its starlight protection.
• Li Xian repeatedly struck the sea serpent into the sky until his Sun-Chasing Sword Qi pierced and tore its body apart.