Recaps

Jiang Yantian and Ao Xue grew closer, and the system rewarded him with the White Tiger Dagger after he asked for a gift. After taking Ao Xue back to the Heavenly Saber Sect, Jiang Yantian returned to the Mysterious Spirit Sect, where Luo Xingcai and the elders were waiting for him.

• Ao Xue told Jiang Yantian she was glad to have met him and had chosen him, and he assured her that she and her brother should continue ignoring Ao Xiong for now.
• Jiang Yantian asked the system for a reward for conquering Ao Xue, and it granted him the sacred artifact White Tiger Dagger.
• Jiang Yantian and Ao Xue spent the evening together, and he kissed her beside a lake before taking her back to her boudoir at the Heavenly Saber Sect.
• Jiang Yantian told Ao Xue that Luo Xingcai would treat her like a close sister, then left for the Mysterious Spirit Sect after sharing more intimate moments with her.
• The Mysterious Spirit Sect elders waited in the council hall for Jiang Yantian, discussing his actions and the possibility of retaliation from the Prince Teng Pavilion, while Luo Xingcai, Banqiu, and Nuandong remained calm.

Jiang Yantian returned to the Mysterious Spirit Sect while Lu Ming and the elders debated how to handle the trouble he had caused. He offered Lu Ming the Heaven-Suppressing Pearl for safekeeping, secretly intending for it to drain Lu Ming’s cultivation.

• Luo Xingcai supported Jiang Yantian and told the elders that his actions would not bring consequences upon the sect.
• Jiang Yantian arrived and accused Lu Ming of gathering the elders to isolate him and plot against him.
• Jiang Yantian challenged the elders to stand with him against the Prince Teng Pavilion, silencing those who had criticized him.
• Jiang Yantian showed Lu Ming the Heaven-Suppressing Pearl and asked him to keep it and help protect him.
• The system warned Jiang Yantian that the pearl would drain Lu Ming’s cultivation, and Jiang Yantian revealed that this was why he had offered it.

Jiang Yantian tricked Lu Ming into taking the Heaven-Suppressing Pearl, while assuring Luo Xingcai that the treasure would return to him and punish Lu Ming. After spending the night with Luo Xingcai, Jiang Yantian decided to visit the Dragon Transformation Heavenly Pool, where Qin Xuan had also been sent on a new assignment.

• Jiang Yantian handed the Heaven-Suppressing Pearl to Lu Ming, who eagerly accepted it and believed it would make him unmatched below Void Refining.
• Jiang Yantian told Luo Xingcai that the Heaven-Suppressing Pearl would bring backlash upon Lu Ming and could return to him with a thought.
• Luo Xingcai confronted Jiang Yantian about seeking a little sister, then spent the night with him.
• Jiang Yantian considered Qin Xuan's next move and decided to follow the plot to the Dragon Transformation Heavenly Pool.
• Lu Ming felt listless after keeping the Heaven-Suppressing Pearl overnight, while Qin Xuan accepted an assignment to assist an old man at the Dragon Transformation Heavenly Pool.

Jiang Yantian went to the Dragon Transformation Heavenly Pool to interfere with Qin Xuan’s opportunity and met an old fisherman who revealed that a golden carp contained a hundred years of the Blazing Sun Imperial Dynasty’s fortune. Jiang took the carp, while the fisherman believed Jiang’s fortune would connect it to him and strengthen the dynasty’s Dragon Qi.

• Luo Xingcai helped Jiang Yantian prepare to leave, and he set out for the Dragon Transformation Heavenly Pool to cut off Qin Xuan’s opportunity.
• Jiang Yantian arrived at the pool and found an old man fishing beside it.
• Jiang Yantian mocked the old man’s fishing and learned that he was fishing for fortune rather than fish.
• The old man explained that the golden carp in his bucket held a hundred years of the Blazing Sun Imperial Dynasty’s fortune and could transform into Dragon Qi.
• Jiang Yantian took the golden carp, and the old man expected it to connect with Jiang’s fortune and strengthen the dynasty’s Dragon Qi.

Jiang Yantian ate the golden carp meant to restore the Blazing Yang Dynasty’s dragon Qi, enraging the old imperial ancestor who had spent a century fishing for it. The two began a fierce battle, with Jiang Yantian summoning his Crimson Flame Golden Ni to meet the ancestor’s golden dragon phantom.

• Jiang Yantian prepared the golden carp as sashimi and ate it, gaining a small increase in spiritual power.
• The old man discovered Jiang Yantian had eaten the carp and accused him of destroying a century of the imperial clan’s dragon Qi.
• Jiang Yantian mocked the old man’s failed ascension, declared the Blazing Yang Dynasty’s time was nearly over, and snapped his fishing rod.
• The old man revealed his golden dragon phantom and attacked Jiang Yantian, who first summoned a black lotus platform and then called forth a Crimson Flame Golden Ni.
• Jiang Yantian and the old man charged at each other as their phantoms clashed, and Jiang Yantian swung the Yang-Extinguishing Saber.

Jiang Yantian fought Zhang Huowang, turned the old man's lightning formation against him, and killed him. He took Zhang Huowang's storage pouch before delivering the final blow.

• Zhang Huowang challenged Jiang Yantian, and the two clashed in the sky as their attacks shook the mountains and Dragon Transformation Heavenly Pool.
• Zhang Huowang activated his grand formation, which gathered heavenly lightning to attack Jiang Yantian.
• Jiang Yantian unleashed Great Reincarnation, reversing the formation's effects and trapping Zhang Huowang in his own grand formation.
• Jiang Yantian guided his Heaven and Earth Dharma Form into the formation's core, causing a blast that left Zhang Huowang mortally wounded.
• Jiang Yantian took Zhang Huowang's storage pouch, joked with him, and killed him with the Yang-Extinguishing Saber.

Jiang Yantian killed Zhang Huowang, disguised himself as a fishing elder, and set a trap for Qin Xuan at the Dragon Transformation Heavenly Pool. After forcing Qin Xuan to kowtow, he gave him a badly roasted fish laced with Boiling Blood Spirit Powder, which Qin Xuan believed might be a powerful gift.

• Jiang Yantian absorbed Zhang Huowang's soul and Nascent Soul into his Spirit-Fusing Mirror, then burned the corpse and mixed its ashes with fishing bait.
• Jiang Yantian disguised himself as an old fishing fanatic and waited at the Dragon Transformation Heavenly Pool for Qin Xuan.
• Qin Xuan arrived on his dark saber, but Jiang Yantian's pressure slammed him into the rubble and left him bloodied.
• Qin Xuan apologized and, believing Jiang Yantian's demand was a test, repeatedly kowtowed until Jiang Yantian forgave him.
• Jiang Yantian secretly sprinkled Boiling Blood Spirit Powder onto a half-raw fish and gave it to Qin Xuan as a gift.
• Qin Xuan noticed the fish was uncleaned and smelled awful, but decided to eat it because he thought it might be powerful food.

Jiang Yantian tricked Qin Xuan into believing that a fish and a brutal cold-water treatment were rare opportunities to strengthen his cultivation and separate his Saber Soul from his body. Qin Xuan eagerly accepted the supposed training, and Jiang Yantian sent the water dragon crashing toward him.

• Qin Xuan ate an uncleaned fish despite gagging, and its effect made his spiritual power surge as his blood essence burned.
• Qin Xuan thanked Jiang Yantian, who learned that the young man had come at the request of the Prince Teng Pavilion master without knowing why.
• Jiang Yantian claimed the Dragon Transformation Heavenly Pool could temper Qin Xuan’s body and help separate his Saber Soul, inventing a path to an independent Saber Soul and Saber Spirit.
• Qin Xuan believed Jiang Yantian’s explanation, vowed to endure the pain, and asked him to help.
• Jiang Yantian pretended to praise Qin Xuan’s resolve and sent the water dragon column slamming toward him.

Jiang Yantian deceived Qin Xuan into enduring brutal water-column attacks at the Dragon Transformation Heavenly Pool to earn Humiliation Points. Qin Xuan passed out, and Jiang Yantian left him beside a fish cooked with Boiling Blood Spirit Powder, planning to trick him again when he woke.

• Qin Xuan trusted Jiang Yantian's claim that the water column would temper his body, but its impact sent him flying and left him badly injured.
• Jiang Yantian encouraged Qin Xuan to continue, then attacked him with two water columns that battered him until he retreated and lost consciousness.
• Jiang Yantian stopped the water columns, carried Qin Xuan back to the pool, and prepared a fish sprinkled with Boiling Blood Spirit Powder.
• Jiang Yantian left as Qin Xuan began to stir, and Qin Xuan opened his eyes less than a minute later.

Jiang Yantian tricked Qin Xuan into eating a restorative fish and gave him cultivation books while secretly using the fish and Boiling Blood Spirit Powder to keep him enduring brutal body tempering. After beating Qin Xuan for a day, Jiang Yantian prepared to leave him to continue on his own.

• The Spirit Fox Monkey defecated on Qin Xuan, who washed himself in the Dragon Transformation Heavenly Pool and hid what had happened from Jiang Yantian.
• Jiang Yantian gave Qin Xuan a grilled fish, and Qin Xuan ate it gratefully as the Boiling Blood Spirit Powder made his blood boil and masked his pain.
• Jiang Yantian gave Qin Xuan cultivation books and told him to avoid women, keep his teachings secret, and report that Zhang Huowang would ally with the Prince Teng Pavilion for a hundred years.
• Jiang Yantian repeatedly attacked Qin Xuan, using the restorative fish to help him recover between increasingly severe injuries.
• After tormenting Qin Xuan for a day, Jiang Yantian decided to leave him to continue tempering himself alone.

Jiang Yantian tricked Qin Xuan into repeatedly jumping from a cliff after destroying everything beneath it, while Qin Xuan believed the senior had prepared a safe training ground. Jiang Yantian learned Qin Xuan’s romance route with Ao Xue was only temporarily interrupted and returned to the Mysterious Spirit Sect.

• Qin Xuan worried that his body tempering had made no progress, and Jiang Yantian told him to keep cultivating and leap from a cliff without spiritual power.
• Jiang Yantian assured Qin Xuan he would only feel pain, then secretly blasted the area beneath the cliff into rubble and checked it for living creatures, medicines, and ancient tombs.
• Qin Xuan thanked Jiang Yantian, mistook his preparations for kindness, and jumped from the cliff, where a rotten branch struck him.
• Jiang Yantian received Humiliation Points and learned Qin Xuan still believed he could win Ao Xue back, so her romance route had not been permanently severed.
• Jiang Yantian returned to the Mysterious Spirit Sect and strolled toward the Law Enforcement Lineage while humming a song that stunned the disciples.

Jiang Yantian spoke with Tantai Yue, his former senior sister, who asked whether he would leave the Mysterious Spirit Sect and denied the old rumors that she admired Ye Feng. Her nervousness and reaction to Qishui City made Jiang Yantian suspect their pasts were connected, but the reason remained unspoken.

• Jiang Yantian handed out high-grade spirit stones as he walked through the sect, then paused when he encountered Tantai Yue.
• Tantai Yue asked Jiang Yantian to walk with her, and he agreed despite noticing her nervousness.
• Tantai Yue asked whether Jiang Yantian would someday leave the Mysterious Spirit Sect, and he said he would once he finished dealing with a few things.
• Jiang Yantian tentatively asked whether Tantai Yue was from Qishui City, and she became visibly uncomfortable without answering.
• Tantai Yue firmly denied ever admiring Ye Feng and explained that she had only regarded him as a junior brother, while Jiang Yantian listened and began to understand the rumors.

Jiang Yantian and Tantai Yue reminisced about their childhoods in Qishui City, where Jiang had once been known as the Little Prince of Dudou. Tantai Yue revealed she had survived the disaster there too, but Jiang still did not recognize her, and the conversation ended with his unsettling recollection of the Shen family’s eldest daughter.

• Jiang Yantian dismissed the old rumors about Tantai Yue, while she felt hurt that he said they did not matter.
• Jiang Yantian told Tantai Yue about stealing dudou in Qishui City and how the locals had fed and cared for him when he was young.
• Tantai Yue asked Jiang Yantian to take her to Qishui City, and he explained that he still cared about the people who had once treated him kindly.
• Tantai Yue revealed that she was also from Qishui City and had survived the natural disaster, though Jiang did not recognize her as the girl he had saved.
• Jiang Yantian asked about the Shen family’s eldest daughter and recalled stealing something from her, then admitted he had wanted to eat her eyeballs.

Jiang Yantian plotted to torment Lu Ming and Hua Youque, then spent the night with Luo Xingcai. The chapter left Jiang Yantian and Luo Xingcai reaffirming their attachment to each other.

• Tantai Yue realized Jiang Yantian had forgotten her, then followed him back toward her quarters.
• Jiang Yantian sensed that Lu Ming was becoming obsessed with the Heaven-Suppressing Pearl and planned to use Liu Mengjie to torment Hua Youque.
• Luo Xingcai joined Jiang Yantian, and they flirted before going to bed together.
• Luo Xingcai told Jiang Yantian she would cling to him and never let go, and he promised she would always captivate him.

Jiang Yantian checked on Qin Xuan’s cultivation before running into Liu Mengjie and proposing a scheme to provoke Hua Youque. Liu Mengjie agreed to help, though she worried she might give away her affection for Jiang Yantian.

• Luo Xingcai advanced closer to Spirit Transformation after spending the night with Jiang Yantian and then went to teach at the Sword Dao Lineage.
• Jiang Yantian secretly gave Qin Xuan more grilled fish mixed with Boiling Blood Spirit Powder and watched him diligently read the first volume of Trembling beneath a tree.
• Jiang Yantian knocked the tree down to test Qin Xuan, who calmly continued reading beside its fallen trunk.
• Jiang Yantian startled Liu Mengjie by grabbing her from behind, then comforted her after she nearly stabbed him in fear.
• Jiang Yantian proposed that Liu Mengjie invite Hua Youque to her villa while Jiang Yantian was there with her, and Liu Mengjie agreed to the plan.

Jiang Yantian comforted Liu Mengjie with a stroll through the garden and prepared to spend time with her at the villa. At the Pill Lineage, Hua Youque reflected on his family and how his attempt to suppress Jiang Yantian had changed his life.

• Jiang Yantian and Liu Mengjie agreed to go to her villa, where she admitted she worried he might reject her because she was nominally Hua Youque's wife.
• Jiang Yantian took Liu Mengjie through the garden, wove her a flower crown, and walked with her among the flowers.
• After they returned to the villa, Liu Mengjie sent her parrot to deliver a message to her maid and offered to bathe Jiang Yantian and change his clothes.
• Hua Youque returned to his room at the Pill Lineage and looked at memorial tablets for his late wife and daughter, Hua Jiao.
• Hua Youque recalled that he had helped the sect master suppress Jiang Yantian, but that this had led to a drastic change in his own life.

Hua Youque believed Jiang Yantian was doomed after handing the Heaven-Suppressing Pearl to the sect master, then rushed to meet Liu Mengjie, thinking she had finally invited him to her courtyard. He discovered Jiang Yantian was inside with Liu Mengjie and flew into a jealous rage.

• Hua Youque blamed Jiang Yantian for Hua Jiao’s death and looked forward to taking revenge once the sect master or Prince Teng Pavilion killed him.
• Hua Youque mourned his late wife A Yin, then eagerly accepted Liu Mengjie’s invitation to her private courtyard.
• Hua Youque took a pill called Flowers Bloom Again and hurried to the courtyard, expecting to begin an affair with Liu Mengjie.
• Hua Youque heard Jiang Yantian calling Liu Mengjie “Meng'er” and mocking her, then prepared to charge inside and tear Jiang Yantian apart.

Hua Youque overheard Jiang Yantian assaulting Liu Mengjie but held back after realizing he could not defeat Jiang. While Jiang helped Liu approach the Nascent Soul Realm, Hua sought an outlet with a female disciple and left blaming Jiang for his humiliation.

• Hua Youque heard Liu Mengjie accuse Jiang Yantian of forcing himself on her, but stopped himself from entering when Jiang threatened to cripple him.
• Hua Youque left and resolved to kill Jiang Yantian and Liu Mengjie to erase his disgrace.
• Jiang Yantian stayed with Liu Mengjie, whose cultivation had reached Golden Core Great Perfection and was nearing the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Hua Youque went to a female Pill Lineage disciple's chamber after taking a potent pill, and agreed to teach her second-grade pill refining in exchange for her cooperation.
• Hua Youque left the chamber dissatisfied and blamed Jiang Yantian for his shame.

Hua Youque urged Lu Ming to kill Jiang Yantian, but Lu Ming hesitated over the appearance of seizing Jiang Yantian’s treasure. After learning of Jiang Yantian’s alleged assault on Liu Mengjie, Lu Ming devised a plan to kill him first and reveal the accusation afterward, while secretly reveling in the power of the Heaven-Suppressing Pearl.

• Hua Youque found Lu Ming looking severely weakened and saw him put away the Heaven-Suppressing Pearl before speaking face-to-face.
• Hua Youque urged Lu Ming to act against Jiang Yantian before Prince Teng Pavilion arrived, but Lu Ming questioned why he was so eager.
• Hua Youque told Lu Ming that Jiang Yantian had entered a home and raped Liu Mengjie.
• Lu Ming proposed publicizing the accusation, but Hua Youque objected because it could ruin his reputation and lacked evidence.
• Lu Ming decided to kill Jiang Yantian first and reveal the accusation afterward, then watched the Heaven-Suppressing Pearl and boasted that he would soon rule the Nine Provinces of the lower realm.

Jiang Yantian encountered a weasel seeking investiture and used his answer to trigger her transformation into a beautiful woman. After revealing that she was called Qiu Luo and was one hundred and eighty years old, she remained at his mercy.

• Jiang Yantian left Luo Xingcai's Dao lecture early to search for a new fishing spot.
• Jiang Yantian heard a weasel ask whether it looked like a human or a god and recognized that it was seeking investiture.
• Jiang Yantian described the weasel as a striking woman, damaging her cultivation and causing her to attack him.
• Jiang Yantian caught the weasel and watched as she transformed into a nearly naked woman with golden hair and animal ears.
• Jiang Yantian learned that the transformed weasel was named Qiu Luo and was one hundred and eighty years old.

Jiang Yantian covered Qiu Luo with his robe after his words transformed her appearance and she lost a hundred years of cultivation, then let her follow him despite her claim that she was his enemy. They reached a lake where Jiang Yantian focused on fishing, and Qiu Luo misunderstood his offer to treat her to chicken.

• Jiang Yantian gave Qiu Luo his robe and questioned her about her appearance and lost cultivation.
• Qiu Luo learned Jiang Yantian was a powerful cultivator nearing Spirit Transformation and blamed him for her misfortune.
• Jiang Yantian walked away, but Qiu Luo followed, saying she would stay near him to seek revenge and that he had to take responsibility for seeing her naked.
• Jiang Yantian invited Qiu Luo to join him on a carefree journey through the worlds, and she silently followed him to a large lake.
• Jiang Yantian tested the lake and startled its fish, then offered to treat Qiu Luo to chicken, which she initially mistook for a sexual proposition.

Jiang Yantian gave Qiu Luo a divine artifact that let her glimpse the future, where she saw him leading a terrifying army in a war of gods. Qiu Luo returned to her clan after sealing a blood pact with Jiang Yantian, then kissed him and flew away.

• Jiang Yantian redeemed the Heaven-Reaching Nine Clouds Ring and gave it to Qiu Luo, saying it would help restore her lost cultivation.
• Qiu Luo used the ring’s power and glimpsed a future in which Jiang Yantian stood over a battlefield of fallen powerful beings, leading an army of shadows; the vision’s backlash made her spit blood.
• Qiu Luo told Jiang Yantian she needed to return to her clan, and he agreed without protest.
• Qiu Luo bit Jiang Yantian to establish a blood pact, binding them together in life and death.
• Qiu Luo kissed Jiang Yantian and flew toward the horizon, while Jiang Yantian touched his lips before vanishing.

Jiang Yantian took Tantai Yue to Qishui City, his former home, where they saw the devastation and desperate survivors left by disaster and drought. When Tantai Yue tried to give the hungry people food, Jiang Yantian stopped her and explained that a small handout could spark deadly competition.

• Jiang Yantian decided to visit Qishui City with Tantai Yue and bid farewell to his former home.
• Jiang Yantian teleported with Tantai Yue to the ruined city, where drought had turned the land barren and residents struggled to find water.
• Jiang Yantian explained that the weakened residents could not safely leave the isolated city and were scraping by with what little shelter, food, and water they had.
• Hungry residents crowded around Jiang Yantian and Tantai Yue in an alley, asking for food.
• Tantai Yue tried to offer her dry rations, but Jiang Yantian stopped her and warned that a limited handout would lead to competition and could cost people their lives.

Jiang Yantian and Tantai Yue witnessed starving disaster victims turn on one another over a piece of spirit beast jerky. After the massacre, Jiang Yantian noticed the composed Zou Tu and questioned him about his survival-minded choices, leaving the young man’s answer about the world pending.

• Tantai Yue admitted she had been naive about the suffering disaster victims endured, while Jiang Yantian privately considered how to bring down the dynasty through a puppet emperor.
• When starving villagers tried to rob Jiang Yantian and Tantai Yue, Jiang Yantian offered them meat in exchange for killing the man who had incited them.
• The villagers killed the instigator, then fought over the meat until more than a dozen people had died and only one man remained alive.
• Zou Tu took the meat, fed some to an elderly woman, and made the other survivors trade the dead villagers’ clothes for portions.
• Jiang Yantian questioned Zou Tu, who explained that he had stayed out of the killing because he expected the hostile villagers to die, then asked him what he thought of the world.

Jiang Yantian tested Zou Tu by leaving him a sack of flatbreads to defend, while telling Tantai Yue that he intended to use Zou Tu as a puppet to bring the Nine Provinces under his control. He then toured his old city with Tantai Yue and showed her the dilapidated house where he had once lived.

• Jiang Yantian gave Zou Tu a sack of flatbreads and ordered him to return them all in five days, threatening to kill him if any were missing.
• After Jiang Yantian left, the disaster victims rose and headed toward Zou Tu, who gripped his billhook and prepared to defend the food.
• Jiang Yantian told Tantai Yue he wanted Zou Tu to become a puppet who could reach the supreme throne, and declared that he aimed to make the Nine Provinces submit to him.
• Jiang Yantian and Tantai Yue walked through the city as he recalled stories about his old neighbors and the pranks he had played on them.
• Jiang Yantian brought Tantai Yue to his former mud-brick home, where she found a stone carving that he identified as Ultraman Tiga.