Recaps

Xiao He, Ruan Zhi, and Song Yan completed the Sword Dao trial, where Ruan Zhi earned a seven and Song Yan earned a nine and received a seal to claim a sword left with the Mohist School. At another trial, Wu Mengliu confronted a mysterious gaunt man, stole his jade pendant while he restrained her, and earned a nine.

• Xiao He received the Heavenly Craft Cube as a reward for her high score in the Mechanism Dao trial.
• Ruan Zhi fought the white-robed swordsman, used her self-devised Hundred-Step Flying Sword, and earned a seven.
• Song Yan fought the swordsman with his cloud bamboo sword and Blameless Sword Forms, earning a nine.
• The swordsman gave Song Yan a seal for retrieving a sword he had entrusted to the Mohist School, and Song Yan recognized the seal's character as “Nie.”
• Wu Mengliu attacked the gaunt man at the theft trial after questioning whether he was a real consciousness, but stole his jade pendant while he held her by the neck.
• The gaunt man accepted Wu Mengliu's success, gave her the jade pendant, and awarded the pair a nine.

Li Zhi learned that Wu Mengliu was the daughter of the Mohist examiner, while Song Yan’s group attempted the theft trial and reached an artifact-refining trial. Ruan Zhi used Unsolved Spiritual Resonance to forge a Flying Sword, earned a nine, and received the founding Patriarch’s treasure, Non-Aggression, which she immediately refined.

• Wu Mengliu told Li Zhi that the Mohist examiner was her father, and Li Zhi realized he was his father’s supposedly deceased friend.
• Ruan Zhi tried to steal the examiner’s Jade Pendant openly and earned a one, then Song Yan used a Flying Sword to threaten the examiner so Xiao He could take it, earning Ruan Zhi a seven.
• Song Yan and Ruan Zhi chose to refine a Flying Sword at the artifact-refining trial, but Ruan Zhi declined his help.
• Ruan Zhi used black-blue Spiritual Resonance to refine the materials barehanded, astonishing Song Yan and the old examiner with the finished sword.
• The old examiner awarded Ruan Zhi a nine and gave her Non-Aggression, a treasure passed down by the Mohist School’s founding Patriarch.
• Ruan Zhi’s Spiritual Resonance immediately finished refining Non-Aggression.

Ruan Zhi chose to save the gravely injured Jiang Gudong and Xu Xiaoxiong in the final trial, earning a perfect Chivalry rating and completing the nine trials with Song Yan. As the other candidates finished, Wu Mengliu recognized that the wounded Song Yan in Xu Xiaoxiong's illusion was fake, leaving the nature of their trial uncertain.

• Ruan Zhi explained to Song Yan that the blue-black cube might be responsible for her ability to refine artifacts barehanded, and they earned scores in the wealth and chess trials.
• Ruan Zhi and Song Yan found Jiang Gudong and Xu Xiaoxiong gravely injured outside the final trial, and Ruan Zhi insisted on treating them despite the risk to her Juzi candidacy.
• Song Yan helped Ruan Zhi heal the pair, and the illusion vanished before their slate awarded them nine in Chivalry and raised their total to seventy-two.
• Ruan Zhi and Song Yan returned to the Mohist School stone terrace, where the former commander praised their exceptional ratings and asked them to wait for the other candidates.
• Xu Xiaoxiong and Jiang Gudong completed their trials, but Wu Mengliu told Li Zhi that the gravely wounded Song Yan in their final illusion was fake because True Person Ciyu could not have been injured so badly by a trial.

Elder Gao announced that Ruan Zhi had won the Mohist School Juzi contest and presided over her succession. As the Mohist School adjusted to its new leader, Song Yan learned that the flying sword he sought was in Sword-Casting Valley and remained at the school while arrangements were made for the protectors to choose gifts.

• Elder Gao revealed the scores, and Ruan Zhi's group won with seventy-two points, ahead of Li Zhi's group with seventy-one and Xu Xiaoxiong's with seventy.
• Li Zhi told Wu Mengliu that he did not resent Ruan Zhi becoming Juzi, since she shared the Mohist School's goals and had the ability to lead.
• Ruan Zhi accepted the Juzi Token and Mo Dian and was formally recognized as the Mohist School's new Juzi.
• Master Xu told Song Yan that the flying sword he sought was in Sword-Casting Valley and invited him to discuss the complicated situation before he left.
• Ruan Zhi offered Mo Dian to Song Yan, but Zhou Zhu and Song Yan stopped her, and Zhou Zhu promised the Mohist School would reward Song Yan for his help.
• After several days at the Mohist School, Song Yan was invited to its Secret Land to choose a gift.

Song Yan visited the Mohist School’s secret treasury and chose the Three Swords of the Celestial Lodge for Xiao Ju. He then learned that Gai Nie’s unfinished Abyssal Chime sword could be reforged only after he chose its materials, and Master Xu pointed him toward Mount Li to seek more thunder-charged fushi stone.

• Li Zhi escorted Song Yan to the secret treasury and told him that Ju Luyi had once rescued him from Devil Cultivators in the Chu Kingdom.
• Song Yan chose the Three Swords of the Celestial Lodge from the treasury, while Wu Mengliu selected a different treasure after seeing the sword set was gone.
• Song Yan visited Master Xu at the Sword-Casting Valley to ask about collecting the sword from the Sword Dao Illusion Realm.
• Master Xu revealed that the sword blank was Abyssal Chime, once wielded by Gai Nie, and that it had remained unfinished for tens of thousands of years.
• Master Xu showed Song Yan a piece of thunder-charged fushi stone found at Mount Li and suggested that more of it could be used to reforge Abyssal Chime.

Song Yan prepared for a possible journey to the Eastern Sea while gifting Ju Luyi a powerful sword set and learning about the Mohist School's history. In the Scripture Repository, he found an account of an unsuccessful search for immortal mountains and recognized a familiar pattern in Master Hu Feizi's mechanical designs.

• Song Yan borrowed Master Xu's thunder-charged fushi stone and agreed to wait until he could gather the materials needed to forge the Immortal Sword.
• Ju Luyi and Ruan Zhi planned a protective Law Treasure for Song Yan, then Song Yan gave Ju Luyi the Three Swords of the Celestial Lodge and admitted he was considering a long journey to the Eastern Sea.
• Song Yan told Xiao He he would take her to search for the divine bird Phoenix, and Ju Luyi realized he had given her the swords because he might be leaving.
• Song Yan searched the Mohist School's ancient texts for information about Yang Valley but found no new clues.
• Song Yan read that Xu Junfang had sailed into the Eastern Dark Sea seeking immortal mountains and never returned, then recognized the style of Master Hu Feizi's mechanical designs.

Song Yan discovered that the patterns on Xiao Ju’s Three Swords of the Celestial Lodge formed a mechanism diagram linked to Qu Jiangzi, a castoff disciple of the Mohist School. Meanwhile, Wu Mengliu secretly entered Song Yan’s residence to seek cooperation, but became trapped and faced his threat to kill her.

• Song Yan examined the Three Swords of the Celestial Lodge and copied their faint mechanism patterns before returning the swords to Xiao Ju.
• Zhou Zhu identified the diagrams as likely work of Qu Jiangzi, Master Hu Feizi’s gifted disciple who left the Mohist School for Immortal Qin, and learned the swords had been gifted by the Xiang Clan.
• Zhou Zhu joined the three diagrams into a defensive mechanism plan and agreed to reconstruct it for Song Yan.
• Wu Mengliu teased Li Zhi about his feelings for Xiao Ju, then told him she planned to visit Song Yan without revealing her reason.
• Wu Mengliu slipped into Song Yan’s residence to arrange cooperation, but became trapped in a strange space as Song Yan appeared to watch her from the clouds and threatened to kill her unless she gave a satisfactory answer.

Wu Mengliu tried to recruit Song Yan for a major opportunity, but he refused and later bid farewell to Zhou Zhu and Ruan Zhi. At Mount Li, Li Yi was summoned to a gathering where Prince Ning Li Xian backed announcing the newly accessible Outer Underground Palaces, as Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum was about to emerge into the world.

• Wu Mengliu offered to cooperate with Song Yan and even proposed becoming his concubine, but Song Yan refused and ordered her to leave.
• Zhou Zhu gave Song Yan the completed mechanism diagram, warned him not to trust it completely, and joined Ruan Zhi in seeing Song Yan and his companions off as they prepared to return to Jun Mountain.
• At the Mount Li Garrison, Li Yi trained with his halberd and listened as young Office Soldiers complained about their posting and the disdain shown toward the True Martial Lineage.
• A messenger summoned Li Yi to Qingxu Plateau in armor, where Lu Xuanling, officials, and sect elders had gathered to discuss Mount Li's Burial Palaces.
• Prince Ning Li Xian supported announcing the Outer Underground Palaces to cultivators across the world, and Li Yi looked toward Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum as it neared its unveiling.

Sheng Yun wondered why her carefully made talismans were weaker than those Sheng Nian had once given her, and hoped to visit Ghost Valley to study the Lingzhen Seal. Song Yan, troubled by his upcoming Dao lecture, was summoned to Xuanyuan, where he met Prince Ning Li Xian.

• Sheng Yun made a Blackwater Spirit-Protecting Talisman but questioned why it seemed less effective than the talismans Sheng Nian had given her.
• Sheng Yun learned that the Lingzhen Seal might reappear and planned to ask her sworn elder brother for an introduction to Ghost Valley.
• Sheng Yun visited Fang Cunsheng, learned that Song Yan was troubled by his upcoming Dao lecture, and decided not to disturb him.
• Yuan Xiaolu told Song Yan that Yangsu Divine Lord had summoned him to Xuanyuan, so Song Yan set out at once.
• Song Yan arrived at Xuanyuan and met Prince Ning Li Xian, who praised him and teased him about his popularity among Chang'an's noble young ladies.

Song Yan rejected Wu Mengliu’s offer to cooperate, then received Zhou Zhu’s revised mechanism plans and departed with the Mohist School. At Mount Li, Li Yi was summoned to a conference where Prince Ning Li Xian and other leaders decided to announce the opening of the outer burial palaces around Qin Shi Huang’s Mausoleum.

• Song Yan refused Wu Mengliu’s offer to work together and ordered her to leave.
• Zhou Zhu gave Song Yan the completed mechanism plans and warned him not to rely on them completely.
• Song Yan and the Mohist School prepared to return to Jun Mountain, and Ruan Zhi and Zhou Zhu came to see them off.
• A messenger summoned Li Yi in armor to a conference at Qingxu Plateau, where leaders discussed the burial palaces around Mount Li.
• Prince Ning Li Xian supported announcing the burial palaces to the world soon, as Qin Shi Huang’s Mausoleum was about to emerge.

Six months later, Sheng Yun struggled to understand why her talismans could not match the ones Sheng Nian had given her and hoped to visit Ghost Valley to study the Lingzhen Seal. Meanwhile, Song Yan worried about his upcoming Dao lecture until Yangsu Divine Lord summoned him to Xuanyuan, where he met Prince Ning Li Xian.

• Sheng Yun finished making a Blackwater Spirit-Protecting Talisman and wondered why it seemed inferior to Sheng Nian's talismans despite her excellent training and materials.
• Sheng Yun decided to ask her sworn brother for help visiting Ghost Valley and learning about the Lingzhen Seal, but Fang Cunsheng told her Song Yan was troubled over his upcoming Dao lecture.
• Song Yan fretted that his unconventional cultivation experience would not help Jun Mountain's disciples, then received a summons from Yangsu Divine Lord to go to Xuanyuan.
• Song Yan arrived at Xuanyuan and found Yangsu Divine Lord, Elder Wu Guan, Divine Lord Xiaoxiang, and the honored guest Prince Ning waiting in the Returning Hall.
• Chu Xiao introduced Song Yan to Prince Ning Li Xian, who praised him and teased him about his popularity among Chang'an's princesses and commandery princesses.

Song Yan learned that the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum had emerged at Mount Li and agreed to enter it when an opportunity opened in two years. As the Immortal Dao Alliance prepared its roster, he studied the other candidates and discovered that the Mohist School and Gongsu Clan had a long-standing rivalry that could complicate the expedition.

• Elder Wu Guan and Prince Ning Li Xian told Song Yan that the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum had appeared beneath Mount Li and that cultivators would be allowed to explore it.
• Prince Ning warned Song Yan that the mausoleum did not restrict entry by cultivation realm, and Song Yan agreed to go after learning that Xu Zhiye was unavailable.
• News of the mausoleum spread, and Gu Qingqing brought Song Yan a roster of likely entrants, including Su Xueming, Yun Wu, Tang Hulu, and Gongsu Mi.
• Song Yan visited the Langhuan Jade Cavern to research Immortal Qin and read that the Mohist School and Gongsu Clan had been bitter rivals since that era.
• Song Yan concluded that the Mohist and Gongsu cultivators might struggle to cooperate inside the mausoleum.

As the Immortal Dao Alliance finalized its candidates for the Qin Emperor's mausoleum, Song Yan considered the expedition while the young cultivators gathered at the Heavenly Feast Tower. The chapter ended with Wang Ke asking the Nuo Realm group to search the mausoleum for clues to the Lingzhen Seal.

• The Immortal Dao Alliance announced that twenty-eight cultivators would enter the burial mound, and the Mohist School gave its place to Jiang Gudong, giving the Northern Capital Jiang Clan two candidates.
• True Person Xuanguang hosted a banquet at the Heavenly Feast Tower for young cultivators set to enter the mausoleum.
• Gongsu Mi questioned Jiang Ding about Jiang Gudong's place, and Jiang Ding loudly disparaged his kinsman and the Mohist School.
• Cui Mi judged Jiang Ding and the other guests harshly, then left the banquet to patrol Luoyang.
• In the Nuo Realm, Wang Ke speculated that mausoleum treasures might relate to the Eastern Dark Sea and described the First Emperor's connection to Tianhai City.
• Wang Ke asked the group to search for the Lingzhen Seal or clues to it and promised a generous reward.

Song Yan arrived at Qingxu Plateau to join the cultivators chosen to enter the Qin Emperor’s Mausoleum and learned they would have only twelve double hours inside. As the group waited for the breach to open, Idle-Fishing Boy asked to follow him, then fled after seeing Snake Treasure.

• Jun Mountain and Taiyi Sect’s cultivators gathered at Peony Gully and set out for the meeting point.
• Song Yan arrived at Qingxu Plateau, where twenty-seven other cultivators had gathered, and greeted Li Yi and the others.
• An Imperial Astronomical Bureau cultivator explained that the mausoleum breach would remain open for entry briefly and could be reopened within twelve double hours for their return.
• Song Yan observed the gathered cultivators, including Great Tang’s Sixteenth Prince Li Lin and two nearly identical Nascent Soul rogue cultivators.
• Idle-Fishing Boy introduced themself to Song Yan and asked to travel with him inside the mausoleum; Song Yan agreed to help if danger arose.
• Idle-Fishing Boy saw Snake Treasure emerge from Song Yan’s collar, cried out, and fled.

Song Yan and the other cultivators entered the Imperial Mausoleum, where its restrictions suppressed everyone’s cultivation to Qi Refining, Third Layer. After splitting into two groups to explore the Nine-Tier Tower’s burial passages, Song Yan’s party was sealed inside the western passage and confronted by an attacking Immortal Qin General Terracotta Warrior.

• The Imperial Mausoleum’s restrictions opened, and the twenty-eight cultivators entered before the formation closed behind them.
• The restrictions suppressed every entrant’s cultivation to Qi Refining, Third Layer, while Gongsu Mi explained that the First Emperor had imposed the limits to protect the tomb.
• A scout’s spirit ants found eastern and western passages through the Nine-Tier Tower, and Li Lin proposed splitting into two groups to explore them.
• Li Lin assigned Li Yi to accompany Song Yan’s group through the western passage, and the party set off while Li Lin led the others east.
• Song Yan’s group entered the western passage, where mechanisms sealed the entrance and ghostly lamps revealed rows of terracotta soldiers.
• An Immortal Qin General Terracotta Warrior approached and charged at Song Yan’s group with its bronze halberd.

Song Yan, Li Yi, and the other cultivators joined forces to defeat the Immortal Qin terracotta warrior guarding the tomb passage, though the fight killed one cultivator and gravely injured another. They recovered the jade talisman that had powered it, and the passage opened as Su Xueming wondered what was happening on the Sixteenth Prince’s side.

• The terracotta warrior killed the Mechanism Dao rogue cultivator and badly injured a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator before Song Yan, Li Yi, Su Xueming, and the others fought back.
• Li Yi endured the warrior’s assault with bloodflame-enhanced strength, while Song Yan and Su Xueming targeted its chest and Tang Hulu prepared her Suspended Blade.
• Song Yan shattered the warrior’s chest with Stacked Blade, and Tang Hulu’s Life-Seeker pierced it and pinned its ancient talisman to the ground, extinguishing its power.
• Yun Wu identified the terracotta warrior as likely modeled after Wang Jian, and Tang Hulu gave the recovered jade talisman to Li Yi.
• Li Yi took custody of the dead Mechanism Dao cultivator’s remains and left the unusable puppet beside the tomb passage after Tang Hulu explained that it had been protected from capture.
• With the barrier reopened, the cultivators considered whether to turn back, while Su Xueming wondered about the Sixteenth Prince’s situation.

Li Lin’s group opened an outer treasure storehouse, where Gongsu Mi secretly recovered a Formation Disk, while Li Yi’s group found an armory and continued toward the true underground palace. Song Yan was separated from the others upon entering its gate, and Green Sparrow followed in disguise as an Immortal Qin Terracotta Warrior.

• Li Lin led his group through a stone door with the Ancient Talisman and let the cultivators search the outer treasure storehouse before proceeding deeper.
• Gongsu Mi secretly opened a hidden compartment, took a bronze Formation Disk, and went on; an unseen observer noted that the Gongsu Clan knew about the Secret Hall.
• Li Yi chose the Eight-Treasure Crocodile Dragon Halberd from an armory, while Song Yan selected three Qin swords and the group continued onward.
• Li Yi and Song Yan entered a colossal stone gate, where Song Yan was suddenly separated from Li Yi and the other cultivators.
• Green Sparrow emerged from hiding, followed the group’s path, and transformed himself into an Immortal Qin Terracotta Warrior.

Song Yan’s Ancient Jade awakened an amnesiac boy who joined him as they explored the Imperial Mausoleum’s vast Outer City. After vengeful spirits attacked them, Song Yan fled into an artifact workshop in search of Thunder-Inlaid Feldspar, only to fall through a trapdoor.

• Song Yan’s Ancient Jade gathered spiritual energy and manifested a boy who could not remember his identity or past.
• Song Yan introduced himself as Song Yesheng, let the boy follow him, and continued searching the city for Thunder-Inlaid Feldspar.
• The boy spoke of wanting to cross the Dark Sea and find the legendary Immortal Mountain, while Song Yan found the surrounding workshops mostly empty and their contents corroded.
• Song Yan climbed a pavilion and saw another city wall in the distance, realizing the Imperial Mausoleum was larger than he had imagined.
• Vengeful spirits condemned Song Yan for looking into the distance and swarmed him, so he fled toward the city wall with the boy.
• Song Yan sensed a trace of Thunder-Inlaid Feldspar in an artifact workshop, rushed inside, and fell when the floor opened beneath him.

Song Yan survived a deadly mechanism trap and recognized the tunnels from a Mechanism Diagram, while Dugu Wu summoned Jing Ke as his successor and revealed that Ying Zheng had killed him. Zha Hong emerged from a massacre in the outer city, still hunting Song Yan.

• Song Yan used Soaring Cloud Intent to land safely in a hidden tunnel, then avoided a barrage of poisoned crossbow bolts by retreating with the boy.
• Song Yan sent the boy ahead to scout the tunnel and realized its junctions matched the Mechanism Diagram he had obtained from the Mohist School.
• Song Yan suspected that Wu Mengliu had known about the Imperial Mausoleum and may have been among the group of twenty-eight because of his Three Swords of the Celestial Lodge.
• Dugu Wu summoned Jing Ke from an ancient scroll, told him he had been dead for tens of thousands of years, and identified Ying Zheng as his killer.
• Zha Hong emerged bloodied from the ruined outer city with two heads impaled on his Bronze Chain Blade and continued searching for Song Yan.

Master Huitu killed Zha Hong by enduring the backlash of his wound-transferring Divine Ability, then left the Imperial Mausoleum after mourning Zheng Guan and Wang Junmao. Meanwhile, Song Yan followed Zhou Zhu’s mechanism diagram into an underground cavern, found an intact ancient teleportation array, and considered its possible connection to the Eastern Sea.

• Zha Hong mocked Master Huitu for mourning Zheng Guan and Wang Junmao, then attacked him and revealed his Divine Ability, Transferring Wounds and Exchanging Fate.
• Huitu fought Zha Hong despite suffering the backlash of his own attacks, destabilized the Divine Ability, struck Zha Hong’s Dantian, and killed him.
• Huitu gathered the remains of Zheng Guan and Wang Junmao, recited the Rebirth Mantra, and left the Imperial Mausoleum rather than continue deeper inside.
• Song Yan used Zhou Zhu’s mechanism diagram to navigate the underground passages, carefully testing traps along the way.
• Song Yan discovered an ancient teleportation array among Eastern Sea records, recognized that it was intact, and speculated that it might lead to the Eastern Sea.
• The boy eagerly asked Song Yan to take him to the Eastern Sea, but Song Yan refused to activate the array for now.

Song Yan and Zhao Zheng emerged from the Imperial Mausoleum’s underground passage into Zhao Capital Handan, where the restrictions on cultivation faded and Song Yan realized the city’s inhabitants were clay figurines inhabited by trapped souls. After searching for Thunder-Charged Fushi Stone, Song Yan and Zhao Zheng headed toward a disturbance and found Jiang Ding confronting Fairy Yunwu.

• Song Yan declined to use the ancient teleportation array and led Zhao Zheng through a passage toward the Imperial Mausoleum’s inner city.
• Song Yan and Zhao Zheng emerged in Zhao Capital Handan, and the mausoleum’s restrictions faded as Song Yan’s cultivation recovered to the Golden Core Realm.
• The youth remembered that his name was Zhao Zheng and that he had grown up in Handan; he could not identify Song Yan’s Thunder-Charged Fushi Stone.
• At Yan’s Record Weaponsmith Workshop, the shopkeeper recognized the stone as a rare Thunder-Charged Fushi Stone but said he had none, while Song Yan observed that Handan’s inhabitants were clay figurines.
• After soldiers hurried east toward a reported fight, Song Yan and Zhao Zheng followed them and found Jiang Ding facing the injured Fairy Yunwu in a plaza surrounded by soldier figurines.

Song Yan interrupted Jiang Ding and Yun Wu’s fight while searching for a thunder-charged fushi stone, then exposed Jiang Ding’s attempt to drug Yun Wu and struck him down as he fled. Song Yan confronted the wounded Jiang Ding and asked once more whether he had seen the stone.

• Jiang Ding pursued the injured Yun Wu, who kept her attention on the Bronze Soldier Statues and waited for him to reveal his trump card.
• Song Yan arrived and showed Yun Wu and Jiang Ding a thunder-charged fushi stone, asking whether they had seen one or knew where to search.
• Jiang Ding accused Yun Wu of attacking him for his treasures, while Yun Wu said he had tried to defile her with Yin-Yang Great Pleasure Powder.
• Xiao He smelled the Hehuan Sect poison on Yun Wu’s blood, and Song Yan challenged Jiang Ding about possessing the demonic substance.
• Jiang Ding tried to flee, but Song Yan struck him from the sky with Sword Intent and wounded him severely.
• Song Yan appeared beside Jiang Ding with the Leiying Que Stone and asked whether Jiang Ding had seen it before.

Song Yan fought Jiang Ding, but the Jiang Family heir’s Blood Talisman Seed summoned the shadow of the ascended Martial God Jiang Jin. Jiang Jin overwhelmed Song Yan in their first exchange, though Song Yan managed to cut him, and the fight remained unresolved.

• Song Yan struck down Jiang Ding, but strange runes in the blood blocked his follow-up attack.
• Tang Hulu watched from the academy, and Su Xueming arrived as the crimson runes gathered into a human figure.
• Jiang Ding identified the figure as his ancestor Jiang Jin, who seized him, rebuked him, and ordered him to remain still until the Blood Talisman Seed finished forming.
• Jiang Jin challenged Song Yan, then evaded his attacks with overwhelming physical speed and knocked him into the ground with a single punch.
• Song Yan rose with his injuries already healing and told Jiang Jin that he would have fled if Jiang Ding were not holding him back.
• Jiang Jin noticed blood welling from the cut Song Yan had left on his hand and laughed.

Song Yan fought Jiang Jin’s shadow in the Imperial Mausoleum, using his sword techniques to expose the limits of Jiang Jin’s borrowed body but failing to defeat him. After Jiang Jin struck Song Yan down and overpowered Su Xueming, Song Yan awoke in his cave abode on Chiyu Peak, where Chen Linyuan was tending the Bamboo Grove.

• Jiang Jin attacked Song Yan at extreme speed, and Song Yan used Void-Viewing to discern the cracks forming in Jiang Jin’s weakened body.
• Song Yan used an illusion and the Traveling Heavenly Dao Sword Domain to launch a surprise attack, but Jiang Jin read his move and forced him out of the illusion with a punch.
• Xiao He shielded Song Yan from Jiang Jin’s follow-up strike, then Jiang Jin pinned her down and hit Song Yan with a full-force punch that sent him crashing through the ruins.
• Su Xueming intervened with his Walking Through Snow Divine Ability, but Jiang Jin caught his Flying Sword, injured him through their connection, and blasted him into the ruins.
• Song Yan awoke in his cave abode on Jun Mountain’s Chiyu Peak and saw Chen Linyuan tending the Bamboo Grove.

Song Yan used his Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water Sword Intent to turn Jiang Jin’s shadow’s wounds from illusion into reality and defeat him. As Jiang Jin faded, he asked the others to kill Jiang Ding, who had been using his name.

• Song Yan awoke in a world shaped by Chen Linyuan’s Void-Reality Sword Intent, and Chen warned him that his scattered Sword Intent and poor use of his abilities were leaving him near death.
• Song Yan realized he might alter the boundary between illusion and reality, while Yun Wu’s conflicting inner voices debated whether to help him and Xiao He stood against Jiang Jin.
• Jiang Jin blasted Xiao He and Yun Wu aside, but Song Yan’s apparent corpse became crows and he began fighting Jiang Jin through shifting illusions.
• Song Yan asked Jiang Jin whether Battle Intent counted as a Divine Ability, then used Mirror Flower Shadow to make Jiang Jin’s sword wounds real and destroyed him with Stacked Blade.
• As Jiang Jin’s shadow faded, he asked everyone to kill Jiang Ding once the teleportation array’s protection ended, revealing that Jiang Ding had been disgracing him by using his name.