Recaps

Jing Jiu arranged for Gu Qing to teach Jing Yao before entering the Demon-Suppressing Prison to learn Soul Fire Control from the Nether Emperor. After three years, he left with the Netherworld Immortal Sword method but became trapped in a battle with the Azure Dragon.

• Jing Jiu chose Gu Qing to teach Jing Yao and entered the Demon-Suppressing Prison beneath the Court of Imperial Sacrifices.
• Jing Jiu reached the Nether Emperor in Taichang Prison and negotiated for Soul Fire Control by promising to capture or kill Taiping and help the emperor’s successor inherit the throne.
• Jing Jiu drove away the Nether Emperor’s tormenting mosquitoes with lightning, and the Nether Emperor helped him adapt Soul Fire Control for his Sword Ghost.
• Gu Qing taught Jing Yao while the Never-Old Forest used evidence of Jing Xin’s involvement in the ambush on Zhao Layue to demand his help sending a messenger into the prison.
• Jing Jiu completed three years of cultivation, learned that the mosquitoes had drained the Nether Emperor’s soul fire, and departed with the method named the Netherworld Immortal Sword.
• Yin San sent a warning about a ghost into the prison to provoke the Azure Dragon into swallowing Jing Jiu and create a chance for the Nether Emperor to emerge.
• The Azure Dragon attacked Jing Jiu, who used the Netherworld Immortal Sword to evade him while adapting to his changed body.
• Jing Jiu injured the Azure Dragon through the prison’s living walls with his poisoned Iron Sword, but the Azure Dragon struck him down and prepared another lightning attack while he could not rise.

Jing Jiu escaped the Demon-Suppressing Prison after releasing the Nether Emperor, whose struggle with the Azure Dragon devastated Chaoge City and ended in both their deaths. The investigation concealed Jing Jiu's involvement, and he later left with Gu Qing to investigate Guo Dong before reaching the Western Sea.

• The Divine Emperor ordered Chaoge City evacuated as earthquakes shook the Demon-Suppressing Prison and Jing Jiu drew the Azure Dragon away from the Nether Emperor.
• The Nether Emperor reunited his divine soul while Jing Jiu escaped into the Void Realm and the Azure Dragon's pursuit ended in its crash into Chaoge City.
• The Azure Dragon tried to devour the Nether Emperor, but the Nether Emperor took control of its body and Divine Soul.
• Bu Qiuxiao pinned the Azure Dragon above Chaoge City, and the Nether Emperor rejected renewed imprisonment before playing the Nether River Lullaby and scattering his divine soul as the dragon fell.
• The investigation exposed Prince Jing Xin's involvement in sending a prisoner into the prison, and the Divine Emperor confined him for three years while Jing Jiu's identity remained concealed.
• Jing Jiu returned to the Jing Residence, supported Jing Yao's succession in his conversation with Bai Zao, and told Gu Qing that he had resolved the Sword Ghost problem and released the Nether Emperor.
• Jing Jiu left Chaoge City with Gu Qing and White Cat, investigated Guo Dong's connection to Lian Sanyue, and inferred that Guo Dong wanted to kill Jian Xilai.
• Jing Jiu spotted Wang Xiaoming through the Blazing Sun Banner and told Gu Qing to identify and kill him when possible before they reached a coast battered by a distant sword fight.

Jing Jiu survived the Western Sea battle and entered the Dao-Seeking Assembly to obtain the Longevity Immortal Register for Guo Dong. Inside the Cloud-Dream Illusion, he became Chu’s emperor while the Dao-Seekers pursued separate lives, and the contest continued as Zhuo Rusui hunted them and Liu S sui’s memories faded.

• Jing Jiu stitched his injuries with Guo Dong’s Heavenly Silkworm Silk, carried her to safety, and promised to seek the Longevity Immortal Register to heal her.
• Zhao Layue defeated Guo Nanshan with the Unthought Sword, but Zhuo Rusui emerged from seclusion and defeated her at the sword trial.
• Jing Jiu joined the Dao-Seeking Assembly as the Water-Moon Convent’s contestant and defeated Zhuo Rusui in a sword contest before entering the Cloud-Dream Illusion.
• Jing Jiu was born as Chu’s imperial heir, cultivated in the palace, and later became emperor while Tong Yan, He Zhan, Jiang Rui, and the other Dao-Seekers established lives across the kingdoms.
• Jing Jiu stopped an assassination attempt, made Liu S sui his personal guard, and erased the mark the Azure Sky Mirror Spirit had placed on Liu S sui’s soul.
• Zhuo Rusui told Tong Yan he was killing Dao-Seekers before they grew stronger, then left despite Tong Yan’s armed preparations.
• Liu S sui returned to Jing Jiu but could no longer remember him, even as he continued guarding him, while Chu’s emperor summoned Prince Jing’s heir to the capital.

Jing Jiu and the other Dao-Seekers shaped the fates of Chu, Zhao, and Qin as the illusion’s decades passed. Xi Yiyun remembered his true origin before Qin destroyed his academy, while Jing Jiu watched from afar.

• Jing Jiu defeated Tong Yan at Go, then killed Tong Yan and Lord Mo and took control of Chu while hiding the truth of their deaths.
• Jing Jiu transformed Qing’er into a Heavenly Treasure True Spirit, while He Zhan consolidated power in Zhao and Bai Zao prepared to lead Qin.
• After Grand Academician Zhang died, Jing Jiu returned to rule Chu and killed the officials who had attacked Zhang’s household.
• Chu lost the war to Qin, and Jing Jiu negotiated surrender before the palace burned and Zhuo Rusui died fighting Bai Qianjun’s forces.
• He Zhan ruled Zhao through successive crises, killed the young emperor, and eventually sailed east with the Secret Service Bureau, leaving his fate unknown.
• Xi Yiyun, living as Yunqi, challenged the Qin Emperor in Xianyang and was attacked after refusing to abandon his principles.
• Xi Yiyun remembered that he came from another world as Qin’s army burned the academy and killed its scholars, while Jing Jiu watched the distant city from a cliff.