Recaps

Chu Kuangren defeated the Fallen Feather Clan’s Third Elder just as an imperial presence emerged from the Demon Well. He exposed the newcomer as an avatar of the Arrogant Demon Emperor and stepped forward to face him, unaffected by his imperial pressure.

• Chu Kuangren tore off the Third Elder’s wing and left him badly wounded while the Fallen Feather Clan Chief remained occupied fighting the Featherfolk Chief.
• The Arrogant Demon Emperor emerged from the Demon Well and attacked Lan Yu, but the Seventh Ancestor blocked his strike with Sword Qi.
• Chu Kuangren identified the newcomer as an avatar of the Arrogant Demon Emperor and told Lan Yu to continue operating the altar’s Formation.
• The Arrogant Demon Emperor suppressed the Seventh Ancestor’s Daoist Laws, but Chu Kuangren stepped forward and said the avatar’s imperial pressure was too weak to affect him.

Chu Kuangren destroyed the Arrogant Demon Emperor's avatar with a hidden Saint's strike, then helped the Featherfolk wipe out the Fallen Feather Clan and close the Demon Well. The next day, Featherfolk elders tried to persuade Lan Yu to stay, but she reaffirmed that she would follow Chu Kuangren.

• The Arrogant Demon Emperor attacked Chu Kuangren, but Chu Kuangren unleashed a Saint's strike that shattered the avatar and killed many Fallen Feather Clan members.
• Lan Yu restored the altar's Formation, sealing the Demon Well, while Chu Kuangren killed the Third Elder.
• The Featherfolk and their allies wiped out the Fallen Feather Clan, including its chief, and the Featherfolk chief thanked Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren agreed to stay in the city for a few days before leaving with Lan Yu.
• Jue Tianlan and several Featherfolk elders urged Lan Yu to remain with her clan and pursue the Emperor Road, but she said she only wished to follow Chu Kuangren.

Lan Yu refused to stay with the Featherfolk, so Jue Tianlan and several elders tried to take the Staff of Light from her by force. Chu Kuangren arrived, killed Jue Tianlan and an attacking elder, and the clan leader punished the surviving conspirators rather than risk a fight with him.

• Lan Yu rejected the Featherfolk elders' pleas to stay and said she would follow her master, Chu Kuangren.
• Jue Tianlan demanded that Lan Yu leave the Staff of Light behind, then attacked with the elders when she refused.
• Jue Tianlan wounded Lan Yu, but Chu Kuangren's Battle King Domain suppressed him, and Chu Kuangren killed him with the Human Mountain Seal Art.
• Chu Kuangren killed a Featherfolk elder who attacked him, then told the arriving clan leader that the elders had injured Lan Yu.
• Lan Yu explained that Jue Tianlan and the elders had tried to seize the Staff of Light, and the clan leader ordered the surviving accomplices to repent for ten years and barred them from leaving the city.

Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu left the Featherfolk tribe and traveled aboard an Immortal Boat, where Chu Kuangren rescued cultivators from Black-Feathered Demon Birds. The survivors recognized him as the legendary Heavenly Pride, and Yun Feiyang introduced himself as a longtime admirer.

• The Featherfolk chief gave Lan Yu Jue Tianlan's Xuanhuang Emperor Qi and said she would always be welcome among the Featherfolk.
• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu left the tribe, and Lan Yu assimilated the emperor qi aboard their Immortal Boat.
• Lan Yu spotted Black-Feathered Demon Birds attacking another Immortal Boat and its cultivators.
• Chu Kuangren killed the attacking birds with his Battle King Domain and Human Mountain Seal Art, then introduced himself to the survivors.
• A Nascent Soul elder recognized Chu Kuangren, and Yun Feiyang excitedly told him he had long wanted to meet him for saving Northern Ridge Dao Province.

Chu Kuangren traveled with Yun Feiyang to Sword-Worshipping City, where the upcoming Sword-Seizing Tournament drew crowds of sword cultivators. After settling in, Chu Kuangren came across a rough-stone gambling stall and chose a stone for fun.

• Chu Kuangren asked Yun Feiyang about Northern Ridge Dao Province and agreed to travel with him to Sword-Worshipping City.
• Yun Feiyang explained the city's swordsmithing history and the Centennial Famous Swords, while the Seventh Ancestor told Chu Kuangren how weapons could grow in power and grade.
• Chu Kuangren and his companions arrived in Sword-Worshipping City, where he felt especially attuned to the Sword Dao, then parted ways with Yun Feiyang.
• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu found lodging and later visited a busy night market.
• Chu Kuangren recognized a crowd's activity as rough-stone gambling and picked a pitch-black stone from the stall.

Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu tried stone gambling and uncovered two extraordinarily valuable minerals by chance. Their astonishing luck left the stall owner and experienced stone gamblers stunned.

• Chu Kuangren bought a rough stone at random despite warnings that it looked worthless.
• The stone cutter revealed Phoenix Blood Stone, a Quasi-Saint-grade mineral, and onlookers estimated it could sell for millions of spirit stones.
• Chu Kuangren invited Lan Yu to choose a rough stone, and she picked one because it looked prettier.
• Lan Yu's stone yielded an Earth Spirit Crystal, a Supreme Being-grade mineral containing Earth Spirit Marrow.
• The stall owner questioned whether this was really Chu Kuangren's first time gambling on stones, while the old man struggled to accept that he had missed both treasures.

Chu Kuangren won an Undying Divine Phoenix egg in his daily draw, but discovered that feeding it spiritual power drained him before it could hatch. After putting the egg away to recover, he and Lan Yu went out into Sword-Worshipping City, where sword cultivators were gathering for the tournament.

• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu left the night market with the phoenix blood stone and earth spirit crystal, prompting a crowd to buy the stall owner's remaining rough stones and lose money.
• News of Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu's lucky finds spread throughout Sword-Worshipping City.
• Chu Kuangren drew the Undying Divine Phoenix as a God-Level Pet and retrieved its egg, whose Daoist Rhyme drew powerful cultivators' attention until the Seventh Ancestor and two others blocked their Spirit Thought.
• Chu Kuangren tried to feed the Divine Phoenix Egg spiritual power, but stopped when it drained most of his reserves without hatching.
• Chu Kuangren soothed the hungry egg, put it in his Heaven and Earth Ring, replenished his spiritual power, and went out with Lan Yu.
• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu saw seven or eight sword duels as sword cultivators arrived for the Sword-Seizing Tournament.

Sword Greed defeated Snow Sword Venerable to take his famous sword, then sensed the Sacred Sword Kunwu inside Chu Kuangren and demanded it. After Chu Kuangren refused to trade, Sword Greed attacked him, and the two clashed in Sword-Worshipping City.

• Chu Kuangren watched Sword Greed defeat Snow Sword Venerable, sever his sword hand, and claim the famous sword Snow Drink.
• Sword Greed sensed an exceptionally fine sword within Chu Kuangren and demanded to see it.
• Chu Kuangren refused to hand over his sword, and Sword Greed offered the swords in his case as a trade.
• Chu Kuangren touched Sword Greed's mysterious sword case, causing it to tremble and release a profound Daoist Rhyme that made swords nearby respond.
• Sword Greed attacked after Chu Kuangren refused to trade, and Chu Kuangren countered with Human Mountain Seal Art, driving them both back.

Chu Kuangren confronted Sword Greed, who tried to take the Saint Sword he sensed within him. Chu Kuangren defeated him with Kunwu, seized control of his sword formation and sword case, and left Sword Greed fleeing.

• Sword Greed recognized Chu Kuangren as a powerful opponent, learned his identity, and gave up on taking his Saint Sword.
• When Sword Greed tried to leave, Chu Kuangren blocked him and defeated his Wolf Devour attack with the Kunwu Saint Sword.
• Sword Greed launched his Thousand-Army Sword Formation, but Chu Kuangren halted the swords with his nine-orifice exquisite sword heart and drew them to himself.
• Chu Kuangren made Sword Greed's sword case fly to him and wounded Sword Greed when he resisted.
• Sword Greed unleashed Sword Qi to cover his escape, and Chu Kuangren called the Seven Sword Dao Heroes disappointing.

After defeating Sword Greed, Chu Kuangren visited the Feng Family, returned Snow Drink to Snow Sword Venerable, and reunited with Li Xingchen. He learned that the Feng brothers planned to reveal a register ranking the world’s famous swords.

• Chu Kuangren defeated Sword Greed, then accepted Feng Ming’s invitation to stay with the Feng Family and returned Snow Drink to Snow Sword Venerable.
• Feng Ming brought Chu Kuangren to the Feng Residence, where he reunited with Li Xingchen and met the Feng Family head, Feng Xuanzi, and master artificer Feng Huzi.
• Feng Xuanzi examined Chu Kuangren’s Kunwu Sword and welcomed him as a guest.
• Li Xingchen told Chu Kuangren that Feng Xuanzi and Feng Huzi were preparing to unveil the Hundred Swords Register, a ranking of famous swords and their masters.

Chu Kuangren discovered that the Divine Phoenix Egg had drained millions of spirit stones and other treasures, then learned that the sword box he took from Sword Greed was the Emperor Weapon Azure Spirit Sword Box. He had the box accept him as its master and began using it to nurture the Kunwu Saint Sword, while Sword Greed vowed revenge and prepared to pursue the sword soul with his Fierce Sword Pojun.

• Li Xingchen’s teacher warned him that Chu Kuangren was unusually dangerous and might be able to sense the hidden Saint King remnant spirit.
• Chu Kuangren found that the Divine Phoenix Egg had consumed the spiritual energy in his spirit stones, medicines, and rare materials, then fed it more spiritual power despite its appetite.
• Chu Kuangren activated Sword Greed’s sword box, which entered his Spirit Ruins and revealed itself as the Emperor Weapon Azure Spirit Sword Box.
• The Azure Spirit Sword Box acknowledged Chu Kuangren as its master, and he placed the Kunwu Saint Sword inside so it could nurture the weapon.
• Sword Greed lamented losing his swords and sword box, then vowed revenge and relied on his Fierce Sword Pojun for his plan to fight for the sword soul.

The Sword-Seizing Tournament began in Sword-Worshipping City, where Li Xingchen demonstrated his strength while Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu watched. As the tournament continued, masked cultivators stormed Skyfire Valley, and the swordsmiths realized they were under attack.

• Feng Ming introduced the Centennial Famous Sword Tiangang and opened the tournament, where swordsmen fought for the right to claim it.
• Chu Kuangren explained to Lan Yu how the Feng Family profited from the tournament through business, reputation, and connections.
• Li Xingchen defeated a Heavenly Pride in the arena and challenged other swordsmen to test his strength.
• In Skyfire Valley, swordsmiths discussed the tournament as masked cultivators rushed into the valley.
• The black-haired burly man spotted the intruders and warned the swordsmiths that enemies had arrived.

At the Sword-Seizing Tournament, Bai Qianjun defeated Li Xingchen in three strikes and challenged Chu Kuangren, who sensed a mysterious resonance and ignored him. After Bai Qianjun taunted Chu Kuangren, Lan Yu attacked, and Chu Kuangren answered with a palm strike that drove Bai Qianjun into the arena.

• Bai Qianjun arrived at the tournament and defeated Li Xingchen in three sword strikes, knocking him out of the arena.
• Bai Qianjun challenged Chu Kuangren to fight and taunted him when he did not appear.
• Chu Kuangren sensed an inexplicable resonance in the distance while ignoring Bai Qianjun's challenge.
• Lan Yu rushed to the arena and attacked Bai Qianjun after he insulted Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren struck Bai Qianjun with a powerful palm, smashing the arena and burying him in a fissure.

Chu Kuangren soundly defeated Bai Qianjun, took his Heaven and Earth Ring, and deterred Bai’s Dao Protector from intervening. As Chu left, the swords around Bai and Tiangang began trembling.

• Chu Kuangren emerged from the restaurant after sending Bai Qianjun crashing into the arena platform with a palm strike.
• Bai Qianjun challenged Chu Kuangren to fight head-on, but Chu shattered his sword shadow with the Human Mountain Seal Art and severely wounded him.
• Chu Kuangren took Bai Qianjun’s Heaven and Earth Ring, while Elder Liu refused to fight him and acknowledged that the Wanfa Sect could not risk the battle.
• Chu Kuangren left, and Bai Qianjun and Elder Liu lamented his overwhelming strength.
• Bai Qianjun’s sword, the nearby swords, and Tiangang began humming and trembling.

A rare Sword Soul escaped a formation and flew to the Sword-Seizing Tournament, where sword cultivators and the Feng Family fought fiercely to claim it. As more swordsmen approached, Chu Kuangren invoked his three Sword Dao phenomena, and the Sword Soul flew toward him.

• A crystal Sword Soul escaped from Skyfire Valley, broke through the formation laid by black-clad cultivators, and headed for the Sword-Seizing Tournament.
• The Sword Soul stirred every sword in Sword-Worshipping City, and sword cultivators fought over the chance to claim it.
• Feng Xuanzi led the Feng Family into the battle, clashing with Sword Venerables who refused to accept the Feng Family's claim.
• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu stayed out of the fight as Chu Kuangren sensed more swordsmen approaching and suspected they were connected to the Sword Soul's escape.
• Chu Kuangren manifested the Heavenly Dao Sword, the Sword Qi Azure Lotus, and twelve Sword Qi pillars, and the Sword Soul flew toward him.

Chu Kuangren claimed the sword soul, which transformed Kunwu into a Saint King Artifact, as masked sword cultivators surrounded the Sword-Seizing Tournament to seize it. Chu identified three of the Seven Sword Dao Heroes among the intruders, setting the stage for a confrontation.

• The sword soul flew to Chu Kuangren, and he suppressed the sword cultivators who tried to intercept it.
• The sword soul entered Kunwu, transforming it into a Saint King Artifact and giving Chu Kuangren a source of Sword Dao insight.
• Feng Xuanzi realized that someone had broken into Skyfire Valley, and masked sword cultivators surrounded the tournament demanding the sword soul.
• Chu Kuangren refused to surrender Kunwu and identified the North Sea Sword Pavilion and Iron Sword Sect behind the masked group.
• The North Sea Sword Venerable and Iron Sword Venerable revealed themselves, and Chu Kuangren exposed Sword Greed as the third of the Seven Sword Dao Heroes present.

North Sea Sword Venerable revealed his Supreme Supreme strength and fought the Seventh Ancestor while Sword Greed and Iron Sword Venerable attacked Chu Kuangren for the Sword Soul. Chu Kuangren disarmed Sword Greed and claimed Pojun, but Iron Sword Venerable then launched a devastating strike at him.

• North Sea Sword Venerable refused to retreat and challenged the Seventh Ancestor, while Sword Greed and Iron Sword Venerable moved to attack Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren intercepted the two sword cultivators himself and forced them back with a single slash.
• Chu Kuangren used the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Art to knock Pojun from Sword Greed's grasp and take the fierce sword.
• Pojun submitted to Chu Kuangren's Nine-Orifice Exquisite Sword Heart, leaving Sword Greed enraged and unable to summon it back.
• Iron Sword Venerable warned Sword Greed to move aside and brought a gigantic sword shadow down on Chu Kuangren.

Chu Kuangren defeated the Iron Sword Venerable and killed Sword Greed after the sword cultivators recoiled from his strength. With Qinglan Supreme Being and Granny Meng blocking the Iron Sword Venerable’s escape, Chu Kuangren captured him in Taotie Space.

• Chu Kuangren’s Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Art overwhelmed the Iron Sword Venerable and left him badly wounded.
• Sword Greed urged the surrounding sword cultivators to wear Chu Kuangren down, but they remembered his slaughter of a hundred thousand demonic cultivators and refused to attack.
• Sword Greed tried to flee, but Chu Kuangren caught him, pinned him down with Po Jun, and killed him.
• The Iron Sword Venerable fled, but Qinglan Supreme Being and Granny Meng blocked his path and Qinglan Supreme Being blasted him back.
• Chu Kuangren reached the Iron Sword Venerable and absorbed him into Taotie Space.

Chu Kuangren defeated the Sword Dao attackers at the Sword-Seizing Tournament, killing three Supreme Beings and forcing the remaining sword cultivators to surrender their Heaven and Earth Rings and flee. Feng Xuanzi explained the Sword Soul’s origins and accepted that it had chosen Chu Kuangren.

• Chu Kuangren’s slaying of Sword Greed and Iron Sword Venerable shocked the crowd, while North Sea Sword Venerable lost an arm fighting the Seventh Ancestor.
• North Sea Sword Venerable declared that he would fight for the chance to become an Emperor, but Chu Kuangren crushed and killed him with a Primordial Divine Mountain.
• Chu Kuangren ordered the surviving sword cultivators to leave their Heaven and Earth Rings and go; he killed one who tried to keep his ring, and the rest surrendered their possessions and fled.
• Lan Yu asked why Chu Kuangren had let the sword cultivators go, and he said their Daoist hearts had crumbled and they would revere him as a god.
• Feng Xuanzi congratulated Chu Kuangren on obtaining the Sword Soul, explained that the North Sea Sword Pavilion and Iron Sword Sect had attacked Skyfire Valley, and described the Sword Soul’s history and its bond with the Kunwu Sword.

After obtaining the famous swords at the Sword-Seizing Tournament, Chu Kuangren decided to melt down the Heavenly Desolate Demon Spear to make a scabbard for Kunwu. As Feng Xuanzi began forging it, sword cultivators gathered in Sword-Worshipping City for the unveiling of the Hundred Swords Register.

• Chu Kuangren kept Tiangang and the other famous swords he had won, bringing his collection to seventeen.
• Feng Xuanzi announced that Sword-Worshipping City would unveil the Hundred Swords Register in three days and update it every ten years.
• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu counted his spoils, and Chu Kuangren fed most of the spirit stones and treasures to the Divine Phoenix Egg.
• Chu Kuangren realized Kunwu needed a scabbard and asked Feng Xuanzi to forge one, but Feng Xuanzi said it required exceptional materials.
• Chu Kuangren offered the Heavenly Desolate Demon Spear as material for Kunwu's scabbard, and Feng Xuanzi began melting it down.
• Feng Huzi oversaw the Hundred Swords Register preparations as a crowd gathered in Sword-Worshipping City for its unveiling.

The Hundred Swords Register ranked Chu Kuangren’s Kunwu Sword first, and Feng Xuanzi delivered a perfectly fitted scabbard for it. News then spread that Whitebrow Saint would preach the Dao in seven days, prompting Chu Kuangren to set out for the opportunity.

• The Feng Family unveiled the Hundred Swords Register, naming Chu Kuangren and Kunwu its top entry, while Murong Feng and Venerable Xuanqi took second and third.
• Sword cultivators questioned Chu Kuangren’s first-place ranking, but a Feng Family disciple explained that Kunwu was the only known famed sword fused with a Sword Soul.
• Chu Kuangren saw that only Qianming Sword Venerable among the Seven Sword Dao Heroes ranked in the top thirty, and he remained unconcerned by the controversy over his own placement.
• Feng Xuanzi gave Chu Kuangren Kunwu’s white scabbard, which perfectly contained the sword’s growing sharp aura.
• Whitebrow Saint announced that he would preach the Dao in seven days, and Feng Xuanzi told Chu Kuangren that the Saint periodically taught and blessed cultivators.
• Chu Kuangren decided to seek Whitebrow Saint’s guidance, and cultivators across the world hurried toward the Saint’s Dao grounds.

Chu Kuangren drew the Rock-Solid Dao Heart attribute and learned about Whitebrow Saint before arriving at Whitebrow Mountain for the Saint’s preaching. There, Lei Mingtian injured Wuchenzi with one punch and insulted the assembled Young Emperors, leaving them furious but unable to challenge his strength.

• Chu Kuangren drew the legendary Rock-Solid Dao Heart attribute, which made a cultivator’s Dao heart impossible to shake.
• The Seventh Ancestor told Chu Kuangren that Whitebrow Saint preached regularly and had accumulated considerable merit.
• Cultivators and several Young Emperors, including Ao Cang, Gu Changge, Yuan Hong, and Lin Batian, gathered at Whitebrow Mountain to hear the Saint preach.
• Lei Mingtian and Xue Lingzi confronted each other, but Wuchenzi urged them to restrain themselves because they were at a Saint’s residence.
• Lei Mingtian attacked Wuchenzi and blasted him back dozens of meters, then mocked the other Young Emperors and claimed their Xuanhuang Emperor Qi was wasted on them.

Chu Kuangren arrived at Whitebrow Mountain and quickly confronted Lei Mingtian, who demanded that he pay for killing a Thunder Falcon Clan Young Emperor. Chu Kuangren overwhelmed Lei Mingtian without drawing his sword, leaving him crushed beneath a Primordial Divine Mountain.

• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu arrived at Whitebrow Mountain, where the gathered cultivators welcomed Chu Kuangren and the Young Emperors watched him warily.
• Lei Mingtian accused Chu Kuangren of killing a Thunder Falcon Clan Young Emperor and demanded compensation.
• Chu Kuangren insulted Lei Mingtian and the Thunder Falcon Clan, prompting Lei Mingtian to attack him at lightning speed.
• Chu Kuangren evaded Lei Mingtian and defeated him in their rapid exchange, knocking him into a crater.
• Lei Mingtian unleashed a pillar of lightning, but Chu Kuangren shattered it and summoned a Primordial Divine Mountain that crushed him against the ground.

Chu Kuangren defeated Lei Mingtian and followed a little Daoist boy into Whitebrow Mountain, where the Saint’s Thousand Mountains Formation tested the gathered cultivators. Fewer than five thousand reached the Saint’s palace, while the boy offered Chu Kuangren help through the formation.

• Chu Kuangren grievously wounded Lei Mingtian in a few moves, leaving Lei Mingtian’s Dao Protector wary of him.
• A little Daoist boy arrived to escort the cultivators to his teacher, the Saint, and the group followed him into Whitebrow Mountain.
• The cultivators entered the Thousand Mountains Formation, whose increasing pressure drained their spiritual power and halted the weakest among them.
• The little Daoist boy chased a Phoenix-Tail Butterfly, which landed on Chu Kuangren’s finger, and then offered to let him hold his hand to bypass the formation’s effects.
• The boy led the group onward, and fewer than five thousand cultivators crossed the formation and reached the Saint’s palace.

Chu Kuangren and the other cultivators faced the Heart Ladder, a dangerous trial of their Dao hearts, before entering the Saint's palace. Lan Yu completed the ladder, and Chu Kuangren followed, passing every illusion without slowing and arriving beside her.

• The young Daoist boy explained that the Heart Ladder could trap those with weak Dao hearts and showed the cultivators the bones of those who had died on it.
• Lan Yu climbed the ladder and reached its final step, inspiring other cultivators to attempt the trial as well.
• Ao Cang, Gu Changge, Lin Batian, the Supreme Beings, and many other cultivators faced illusions on the Heart Ladder while Chu Kuangren waited for Lan Yu.
• Chu Kuangren stepped onto the ladder and endured illusions of danger, pleasure, power, and poverty without faltering.
• Chu Kuangren passed everyone on the ladder and reached Lan Yu, leaving the onlookers stunned.