Recaps

Jiang Yantian secretly sealed Dongfang Suming’s Qi, leaving him with only Nascent Soul Early Stage strength before his match against Mei Mingzhi. Dongfang Suming, unaware of the sabotage and eager to impress Huai Yafu, began his attack with a pitifully weak palm strike.

• Qingli Yingyue left Jiang Yantian after he ignored her, while Dongfang Suming returned with his concealed presence still undiscovered.
• Dongfang Suming mistook Huai Yafu’s lingering smile and curt response for signs that she cared about him, then grew confident before his match.
• Jiang Yantian sent an unseen Qi needle into Dongfang Suming and sealed most of his strength.
• Mei Mingzhi challenged Dongfang Suming and unleashed black flames that surged across the rocky arena.
• Dongfang Suming raised his hand to impress the onlookers, but his palm strike produced only a faint wisp of Qi.

Dongfang Suming found himself unable to use his strength and was chased around the arena by Mei Mingzhi, while Jiang Yantian secretly intervened to keep him from losing. Mei Mingzhi was eliminated after stumbling into another arena, giving Dongfang Suming a humiliating victory that left the crowd and his lineage furious.

• Dongfang Suming could release only Nascent Soul-level power, so Mei Mingzhi’s attacks set him ablaze and drove him around the arena.
• Dongfang Suming tried to surrender, but he could not speak and was forced to endure Mei Mingzhi’s relentless attacks.
• Jiang Yantian covertly struck Mei Mingzhi with Qi, causing him to charge into another arena and get eliminated.
• Dongfang Suming was declared the winner, and the crowd mocked him while members of the Dongfang Family Lineage cursed him.

Dongfang Suming was humiliated after his match and watched Huai Yafu openly pursue Jiang Yantian. When Dongfang Suming approached them, Huai Yafu mistook his actions for an attack on Jiang Yantian and blasted him, leaving Dongfang Suye to berate and kick his younger brother.

• Dongfang Suming left the arena ashamed after winning through his opponent's loss of control.
• Huai Yafu won her match and hurried to Jiang Yantian, ignoring Dongfang Suming as he tried to congratulate her.
• Huai Yafu took Jiang Yantian's hand and led him away, while Jiang Yantian provoked Dongfang Suming with a wink and a spit.
• Dongfang Suming approached them, and Jiang Yantian stumbled into Huai Yafu after claiming someone had kicked him.
• Huai Yafu blamed Dongfang Suming, blasted him to the ground, and warned him to stop causing trouble.
• Dongfang Suye arrived, called Dongfang Suming a disgrace to their Lineage, and kicked him across the ground.

Qingli Yingyue struggled with her feelings for Jiang Yantian while he spent time with Huai Yafu, and Dongfang Suming tried to accept that he had lost his beloved. Jiang Yantian’s invitation to share a meal revived Dongfang Suming’s hopes, and he turned back toward them.

• Chu Fan left after seeing Dongfang Suming humiliated, while Qingli Yingyue declined Bi Henyang’s invitation to dine and followed Jiang Yantian.
• Qingli Yingyue tried to take Jiang Yantian away, but he refused unless she let him kiss her, so she left alone.
• Huai Yafu cooked for Jiang Yantian, and he praised her food as she served him.
• Dongfang Suming watched Jiang Yantian and Huai Yafu together, decided to give up on love, and started walking away.
• Jiang Yantian told Huai Yafu to invite Dongfang Suming to eat, and Dongfang Suming mistook the invitation for a sign of his Senior Sister’s affection and turned back toward them.

Huai Yafu invited Dongfang Suming to eat with her and Jiang Yantian, hoping to ease tensions between their lineages, but Dongfang Suming misread her intentions and repeatedly disrupted their time together. After he ate food from a broken bowl to show his devotion, Huai Yafu demanded an explanation, and he confessed that he had loved her for hundreds of years.

• Jiang Yantian persuaded Huai Yafu to invite Dongfang Suming so their fellow disciples would not fall into conflict.
• Dongfang Suming arrived at the courtyard and praised Huai Yafu's cooking while ignoring Jiang Yantian's chilly welcome.
• Dongfang Suming took Jiang Yantian's seat, then stood again when Huai Yafu proposed sitting on Jiang Yantian's lap.
• Huai Yafu served Jiang Yantian crispy pork, but Dongfang Suming tried to claim the bowl, prompting her to knock it onto the ground.
• Dongfang Suming picked up the broken bowl and pork, ate the food, and praised Huai Yafu's cooking.
• Huai Yafu angrily demanded to know what Dongfang Suming was doing, and he confessed that he had loved her for hundreds of years.

Huai Yafu firmly rejected Dongfang Suming’s confession and left with Jiang Yantian, while Dongfang Suming mistook her angry words for a hidden declaration of love. Jiang Yantian comforted Huai Yafu beneath a tree and kissed her, leaving them embracing.

• Dongfang Suming confessed his love to Huai Yafu and claimed he had secretly helped her, but she rejected him and told him to leave.
• Huai Yafu knocked the food from the table, took Jiang Yantian’s hand, and walked out of the courtyard.
• Dongfang Suming decided to seal away his heart, then reinterpreted Huai Yafu’s insults as a coded confession and planned to approach her as Brother Mo.
• Jiang Yantian learned that the system had withdrawn Dongfang Suming’s Humiliation Points after he abandoned his decision to seal his heart.
• Huai Yafu hugged Jiang Yantian and worried he might reject her as she had rejected Dongfang Suming, so Jiang Yantian kissed her.

Qingli Yingyue accidentally shattered the pavilion suppressing the ancient black dragon beneath Severed Dragon Mountain, triggering an upheaval and getting pulled into its prison. As she confronted the chained dragon, Bi Henyang and others gathered outside the barrier, alerted by her power.

• Qingli Yingyue saw Jiang Yantian kissing Huai Yafu, felt hurt, and left for Severed Dragon Mountain.
• Angry, Qingli Yingyue shattered a pavilion and sensed an ancient presence beneath it.
• Dark clouds, freezing winds, and tremors swept over Severed Dragon Mountain as the ancient black dragon began to stir.
• A barrier seized Qingli Yingyue and dragged her into the prison, where she faced the chained black dragon.
• Bi Henyang and many others gathered outside the barrier after sensing Qingli Yingyue's powerful presence.

After the Dragon-Suppressing Pavilion shattered and opened the barrier containing an ancient black dragon, Bi Henyang sought someone born at noon on the fifth day of the fifth month to repair the seal. Jiang Yantian volunteered to enter, while Dongfang Suming also stepped forward and was met with suspicion.

• Bi Henyang and the others discovered the Dragon-Suppressing Pavilion had shattered, and Bi Henyang warned that the ancient black dragon could escape within half a month.
• Bi Henyang explained that only someone born at noon on the fifth day of the fifth month could safely enter the barrier and repair the formation core, but no one initially volunteered.
• Dongfang Suming realized he met the requirement and prepared to step forward, but Jiang Yantian volunteered first to rescue his imprisoned pet and protect the realms.
• Huai Yafu worried about Jiang Yantian, while her grandfather approved of their relationship and those present praised Jiang Yantian's resolve.
• Dongfang Suming also declared that he met the requirement, but the crowd accused him of copying Jiang Yantian to gain praise, and Bi Henyang questioned his motives.

Jiang Yantian and Dongfang Suming entered the barrier to renew the seal imprisoning the black dragon, but Jiang Yantian’s presence stirred the dragon and revealed his connection to it. They reunited with Qingli Yingyue, whose intimate, bickering exchange with Jiang Yantian left Dongfang Suming bewildered.

• Bi Henyang gave Jiang Yantian and Dongfang Suming the seal-renewal scroll and sent them into the barrier, where Qingli Yingyue would meet them.
• As the two fell through the passage, Jiang Yantian briefly transformed into a silver-haired figure in a black dragon-patterned robe before returning to Fuqing’s appearance.
• Jiang Yantian and Dongfang Suming reached the altar, and the black dragon sensed Jiang Yantian, struggled against its chains, and roared until Dongfang Suming fell to his knees.
• Qingli Yingyue appeared and asked Jiang Yantian why he had come, while Dongfang Suming greeted her as the Realm Lord of the Qiankun Realm.
• Jiang Yantian told Qingli Yingyue he would hold her if she was scared, called himself her husband, and pulled her into his arms before she pushed away and called him shameless.

Dongfang Suming and Jiang Yantian tried to repair the barrier restraining the black dragon, but Jiang Yantian secretly sabotaged it while making the repairs appear genuine. The barrier collapsed, freeing the black dragon and destroying Severed Dragon Mountain.

• Dongfang Suming began repairing the spell over the black dragon while Jiang Yantian watched and secretly disrupted his efforts.
• The black dragon struggled on Jiang Yantian's orders, and Dongfang Suming's first two attempts broke more Dragon-Locking Chains instead of repairing the barrier.
• Jiang Yantian took over, secretly loosened chains while pretending to repair them, and then claimed he was too exhausted to continue.
• Dongfang Suming resumed the repair, but the scroll exploded and the barrier and all the chains shattered.
• The black dragon rose with a roar, and Severed Dragon Mountain was blasted apart.

Dongfang Suming’s mistakes shattered the seal on Severed Dragon Mountain and freed the vengeful black dragon, which attacked the assembled realm lords. Qingli Yingyue blamed Dongfang Suming for deliberately breaking the barrier, while he remained behind claiming the young man in green had interfered with him.

• Dongfang Suming’s actions broke the chains and barrier sealing the black dragon, splitting Severed Dragon Mountain.
• Jiang Yantian urged the black dragon to escape and blame the release on the young fellow in green robes.
• The black dragon emerged, swore revenge on those who sealed it, and charged at Bi Henyang and the others as realm lords and elders fought back.
• Elder Huai teleported Huai Yafu away from Severed Dragon Mountain while she struggled to return to Jiang Yantian.
• Qingli Yingyue joined the battle and told Bi Henyang that Dongfang Suming had repeatedly made mistakes before deliberately shattering the barrier.
• Qingli Yingyue told Bi Henyang that Dongfang Suming was still nearby, blaming the handsome young fellow Daoist for what happened.

Dongfang Suming was blamed for releasing the black dragon, which escaped after fighting off the realm lords. At the Extreme Hidden Hall assembly, he denied wrongdoing, and Qingli Yingyue testified that he had made two mistakes while following the scroll.

• The crowd surrounded Dongfang Suming and accused him of releasing the black dragon while Huai Yafu reunited with Jiang Yantian.
• Jiang Yantian secretly told the black dragon to leave, and it vanished after warning that it would return for revenge.
• Bi Henyang ordered Dongfang Suming seized and summoned a realm assembly at the Extreme Hidden Hall.
• Dongfang Suming denied guilt and said he had followed the scroll, but the Image-Recording Stone had been destroyed.
• Qingli Yingyue testified that Dongfang Suming had made two mistakes at the start, though she did not know whether they were deliberate.

Dongfang Suming denied causing the black dragon’s escape, while Jiang Yantian’s testimony made the gathered cultivators more suspicious of him. Suming accused Jiang of releasing the dragon and demanded evidence as their confrontation continued.

• Dongfang Su and Dongfang Suye demanded that Dongfang Suming explain how the black dragon had escaped, and Suming insisted he had followed the scroll’s instructions.
• Jiang Yantian said the black dragon had stayed quiet when Suming performed the sealing process but became agitated when Jiang took his turn, while offering to share responsibility.
• Dongfang Suming accused Jiang Yantian of framing him and argued that Jiang’s strange behavior inside the barrier linked him to the black dragon.
• Huai Yafu tried to attack Dongfang Suming, but Elder Huai held her back and urged her to stay composed.
• Dongfang Suming called Jiang Yantian the culprit and demanded proof, and Jiang claimed he had evidence.

Jiang Yantian revealed an Image-Recording Stone that made Dongfang Suming appear responsible for the barrier breaking, and the crowd condemned him. Bi Henyang sentenced Dongfang Suming to three hundred years in the Soul-Shattering Prison, while Jiang Yantian redirected a golden light that appeared to intervene.

• Jiang Yantian showed the crowd an Image-Recording Stone depicting Dongfang Suming working on the barrier just before it shattered and the black dragon escaped.
• The crowd accused and insulted Dongfang Suming, who lost control and roared at them before Jiang Yantian revealed he was a mid-stage True Immortal competing in the Void Refining matches.
• The crowd called for Dongfang Suming to be imprisoned, and Bi Henyang sentenced him to three hundred years in the Soul-Shattering Prison.
• As Dongfang Suming was restrained, a golden light descended from a passage in the sky, but Jiang Yantian turned his gaze on it and sent it back into the sky.
• Dongfang Suming protested his innocence and struggled as he was taken away.

After the black dragon escaped, the realm lords prepared for the possibility of the World-Destruction War returning. Jiang Yantian revealed his identity as the Imperishable Devil Emperor to Huai Yafu, who accepted him and suggested he let the black dragon vent its anger by targeting families hostile to hers.

• The realm lords put the realms on high alert and agreed to unite against the black dragon, while the interrupted competition ended without Jiang Yantian’s plan to make Dongfang Suming and Chu Fan French kiss succeeding.
• At Huai Yafu’s residence, Jiang Yantian returned to his silver-haired appearance and asked her to call him husband before admitting he had released the black dragon.
• Huai Yafu said she had already guessed Jiang Yantian released the black dragon and recognized him as the Imperishable Devil Emperor, with the black dragon as his pet.
• Huai Yafu pledged to stay with Jiang Yantian and proposed that he preserve his dignity by letting the black dragon kill a few families that opposed hers.
• Jiang Yantian approved of Huai Yafu’s suggestion and carried her off to give her some loving.

Jiang Yantian and Huai Yafu became intimate while Qingli Yingyue, jealous outside, received Nan Tianxin’s advice about pursuing him. In the Soul-Shattering Prison, Dongfang Suming suffered under his resentment until a mysterious voice offered him revenge and escape.

• Jiang Yantian entered Huai Yafu’s boudoir and became intimate with her.
• Qingli Yingyue watched from outside, grew jealous, and contacted Nan Tianxin to complain about Jiang Yantian.
• Nan Tianxin told Qingli Yingyue that Jiang Yantian stood by his word and advised her to take the initiative with him.
• Qingli Yingyue teleported to a mountain peak and wondered what she should wear to attract Jiang Yantian’s attention.
• Dongfang Suming suffered in the Soul-Shattering Prison, cursed Jiang Yantian and the others, and vowed to survive for revenge.
• A mysterious voice asked Dongfang Suming whether he wanted revenge, escape, and a chance to make everyone regret their actions.

Dongfang Suming encountered Dark Flame, who secretly tried to destabilize him and seize his body by exploiting his negative emotions. Meanwhile, Jiang Yantian and Huai Yafu remained together after their intimacy.

• Dark Flame revealed himself to Dongfang Suming as one of the Imperishable Devil Emperor’s Eight Great Protectors and offered to help him escape the Soul-Shattering Prison.
• Dongfang Suming refused Dark Flame’s offer, while Dark Flame secretly released evil Qi and waited for his emotions to break down.
• Dark Flame made Dongfang Suming hear imagined voices of Huai Yafu with Jiang Yantian, driving him into agony as he pounded on his prison walls.
• Jiang Yantian held Huai Yafu after they were intimate, and she told him she loved him.

Jiang Yantian left Huai Yafu to visit the Soul-Shattering Prison, but Qingli Yingyue intercepted him and made him promise to return to the Qiankun Realm before kissing him. At the prison, Jiang Yantian tricked Dongfang Suming into thinking he would help him escape, then exposed him to the guards and had him beaten.

• Huai Yafu rested after telling Jiang Yantian she was happy, and he set off for the Soul-Shattering Prison.
• Qingli Yingyue confronted Jiang Yantian, pressured him to promise he would return to the Qiankun Realm, and kissed him before leaving.
• Jiang Yantian called Qingli Yingyue back, kissed her again, and then continued toward the prison.
• Jiang Yantian found Dongfang Suming exhausted in his cell, pretended to sympathize with him, and led him out under the guise of helping him escape.
• When patrol guards approached, Jiang Yantian struck Dongfang Suming and shouted that he was escaping, prompting the guards to shackle and beat him.

Jiang Yantian persuaded the battered Dongfang Suming to attempt another escape using a Concealing Spirit Cloak, then arranged for him to be caught and beaten again. Dongfang Suming was dragged back into the Soul-Shattering Prison under heavier restrictions, while Jiang Yantian escaped suspicion.

• The guards whipped Dongfang Suming for his attempted escape, and Jiang Yantian earned their gratitude by claiming he had reported him.
• Jiang Yantian told Dongfang Suming he had only betrayed him to protect his cover and offered to lead him out again with a Concealing Spirit Cloak.
• Dongfang Suming trusted Jiang Yantian, concealed himself beneath the cloak, and followed him out of the cell.
• The guards spotted Dongfang Suming following Jiang Yantian, seized him, and beat him as he accused Jiang Yantian of setting him up.
• The guards found the cell restrictions intact, dismissed Dongfang Suming's accusations, and dragged him back after chaining him.
• The guards added more restrictions, beat Dongfang Suming again, and stripped off his clothes to prevent another escape.

Jiang Yantian repeatedly used Great Reincarnation to make Dongfang Suming relive his beatings and imprisonment until he broke down. Dark Flame then tempted Dongfang Suming with power and revenge, and Dongfang reached toward him in anger.

• Jiang Yantian reversed time with Great Reincarnation, forcing Dongfang Suming to relive being beaten and imprisoned several times.
• Dongfang Suming begged Jiang Yantian to stop, but Jiang Yantian left after telling him he would return to rescue him.
• Dongfang Suming cursed and suffered under the Soul-Shattering Prison’s restrictions, while his resentment grew.
• Dark Flame appeared and urged Dongfang Suming to abandon kindness and justice in favor of power and revenge.
• Dongfang Suming recalled the ridicule and hardship he had endured, then reached toward Dark Flame while declaring that he would not accept his fate.

Dark Flame took over Dongfang Suming’s body, destroyed the Soul-Shattering Prison, and emerged into the Extreme Hidden Realm. As the realm’s leaders gathered to confront him, he exposed Dongfang Suye’s embarrassing secret, while Jiang Yantian watched and waited to make his move.

• Dark Flame fused with Dongfang Suming, overwhelmed his resistance, and trapped his remaining consciousness inside the body.
• Dark Flame broke through the Soul-Shattering Prison and unleashed his power across the Extreme Hidden Realm.
• The realm lord, Jiang Yantian, Huai Yafu, and others gathered around the possessed Dongfang Suming.
• Dongfang Suye accused Dongfang Suming of turning against the realm, and Dark Flame retaliated by revealing that Dongfang Suye had spied on their stepmother.
• Dongfang Suye accidentally confirmed the accusation, while Jiang Yantian watched the commotion and planned to subdue Dark Flame.

Dark Flame, occupying Dongfang Suming’s body, fought Bi Henyang and his spirit beast in the Extreme Hidden Realm while Jiang Yantian watched. The battle continued as Chu Fan sensed Dongfang Suming’s righteous presence fading and evil Qi taking over.

• Dongfang Su exposed Dongfang Suye’s past peeping on his young concubine, humiliating Dongfang Suye in public.
• Dark Flame dismissed Bi Henyang’s demand to surrender and attacked him, unleashing black flames and trading powerful strikes with the realm lord.
• Bi Henyang summoned his contracted Fire-Winged Flying Sheep to join the fight, while the battling pair shook the Extreme Hidden Realm.
• Jiang Yantian took Huai Yafu to drink tea and watch, and Chu Fan poured tea while sensing a familiar presence in Dongfang Suming’s body.
• Chu Fan sensed Dongfang Suming changing from someone filled with righteous Qi into someone filled with evil Qi.

Jiang Yantian persuaded Chu Fan to join the battle against Dongfang Suming, while Dark Flame mistook Chu Fan’s cry for “Fuqing” as a call of “Father” and desperately protected him. Jiang Yantian then ordered Dark Flame to seize Dongfang Suming’s stepmother, and Dark Flame fled with her after kissing her in front of the crowd.

• Jiang Yantian invited Chu Fan to help suppress Dongfang Suming, and Chu Fan agreed after Jiang Yantian praised his past feat and promised him fame.
• Dark Flame burned Chu Fan with a foglike force, then panicked when Chu Fan cried “Fuqing” and struck himself after thinking he had attacked his young master.
• Jiang Yantian let Dark Flame keep protecting Chu Fan and used their strange battle to convince Bi Henyang that the two shared a secret.
• Jiang Yantian ordered Dark Flame to grab Dongfang Suming’s stepmother, kiss her publicly, and withdraw.
• Dark Flame seized A Lian, kissed her before the crowd, declared that she belonged to him, and carried her away.

Dongfang Suming’s imprisonment and humiliation deepened Bi Henyang’s suspicions, leading him to arrest Chu Fan despite Chu Fan’s confusion. Jiang Yantian left the Extreme Hidden Realm with Huai Yafu after promising to clear Chu Fan’s name by capturing Dongfang Suming.

• Dark Flame weakened Dongfang Suming’s soul by making him witness a staged kiss with his stepmother, A Lian.
• Bi Henyang suspected Chu Fan of colluding with Dongfang Suming and ordered guards to imprison him.
• Jiang Yantian comforted Chu Fan, then took Huai Yafu to visit her family and presented the Huai Lineage with betrothal gifts.
• Jiang Yantian visited Chu Fan in prison and promised to capture Dongfang Suming so the truth would come out.
• Jiang Yantian departed with Huai Yafu, while Chu Fan remained imprisoned and blamed Dongfang Suming for his predicament.

Jiang Yantian returned to the Thunder Firmament Realm with Huai Yafu to reunite with Mu Yushang, while finding Lei Ze and Xiao Beichen’s strange closeness unsettling. Mu Yushang recognized that Jiang Yantian had been in the Extreme Hidden Realm because his pet black dragon had appeared there.

• Jiang Yantian asked Huai Yafu whether she wanted to stay with him or enter the mysterious realm, and she chose to remain by his side for now.
• Lei Ze and the Thunder Firmament Realm’s higher-ups welcomed Jiang Yantian as their Demon Emperor, and Xiao Beichen greeted him affectionately.
• Jiang Yantian attacked Xiao Beichen when he followed, but Lei Ze caught him as he fell.
• Jiang Yantian took Huai Yafu to Rainbow Garment Immortal Mountain and embraced Mu Yushang, who asked whether he had visited the Extreme Hidden Realm.
• Mu Yushang explained that the black dragon seen in the Extreme Hidden Realm was Jiang Yantian’s pet, so she knew he had been there.