Recaps

As the sect master and his wife’s battle raged, Jiang Yantian accidentally kissed Fairy Fengyin while she read a storybook. The book described the same events and identified him as the Devil Emperor, leaving Fairy Fengyin convinced the story was coming true as she confronted him.

• Li Fenghuai fought his wife with lethal force, and elders who tried to intervene were blasted away as the immortal sect was devastated.
• Jiang Yantian approached Fairy Fengyin, who remained absorbed in her storybook despite the battle.
• Fairy Fengyin raised her head, and she and Jiang Yantian accidentally kissed at the corners of their lips.
• Fairy Fengyin dropped the book and saw that its account matched the battle and their kiss, including the Devil Emperor approaching the Pill Refining Fairy.
• Fairy Fengyin called Jiang Yantian the Imperishable Devil Emperor and asked why he had kissed her; he gave the same shameless answer written in the storybook.
• Fairy Fengyin concluded that she was the Pill Refining Fairy and followed the book’s next line by accusing Jiang Yantian of having no shame.

Jiang Yantian’s explanation convinced Fairy Fengyin that he was the Devil Emperor from her storybook, though she refused to accept what the book predicted about them. As Li Xuanji collapsed after learning the truth about his mother, the sect master’s wife tried to kill him, but a gilded-robed elder and an unknown powerhouse intervened.

• Jiang Yantian told Fairy Fengyin that he had only been borrowing her good luck, and she recognized him as the Devil Emperor from her storybook.
• Ji Chu told Jiang Yantian she felt Fairy Fengyin would become one of their sisters, and they made a bet about it.
• Li Xuanji broke down after hearing that his mother had been involved with powerful men, and the sect master's wife turned her attack on him.
• Fairy Fengyin predicted that Li Xuanji's maternal family would arrive to save him, then watched as a gilded-robed elder emerged from a rift in the sky and condemned Li Fenghuai.
• A massive dark-iron shield appeared between Li Xuanji and the sect master's wife, blocking the incoming attack as everyone realized another powerhouse had arrived.

Bi Liushui arrived at the Everlasting Immortal Sect and accused Li Fenghuai of failing to protect Gui Ting and allowing her reputation to be slandered. As Bi Liushui prepared to attack the sect, Li Xuanji asked him whether he was his maternal grandfather and demanded the truth about his parents.

• Bi Liushui appeared in midair and easily blocked the sect master's wife's attack, while disciples spread rumors that he had also been involved with Li Xuanji's mother.
• Bi Liushui condemned Li Fenghuai for mistreating Gui Ting and letting others vilify her, threatening to turn the Everlasting Immortal Sect upside down.
• Li Fenghuai blamed the Bi Lineage for driving Gui Ting out and said her grief and depression had contributed to her early death.
• Bi Liushui accused Li Fenghuai of refusing to return with Gui Ting or grant her an honorable status, then vowed to make him pay in blood.
• Li Xuanji wondered if Bi Liushui was his maternal grandfather, and Bi Liushui offered to take him back to the Bi Lineage after destroying the sect.
• Li Xuanji asked Bi Liushui who his father was and whether his mother had really been the shameless woman the rumors described.

Jiang Yantian spread lurid rumors about Gui Ting and Elder Wu, provoking Bi Liushui and Li Fenghuai into turning on Wu Song. As Bi Liushui prepared to attack the Everlasting Immortal Sect, Li Xuanji snapped and vowed to kill everyone insulting his mother.

• Jiang Yantian accused Elder Wu of having an affair with Gui Ting and added more accusations involving the sect master's wife and Elder Lian.
• Bi Liushui captured Elder Wu as he tried to flee, while Li Fenghuai and the sect master's wife confronted him over the alleged affairs.
• Elder Wu denied the accusations and claimed he liked men, naming Elder Lian, who accused him of slander in turn.
• Jiang Yantian watched the crowd erupt into gossip while Li Xuanji clenched his fists and listened to people insult his mother.
• The sect master's wife challenged Bi Liushui's right to interfere, but Bi Liushui declared he would punish the rumor-mongers and unleashed his overwhelming presence.
• Li Xuanji finally snapped and vowed to kill everyone, while Ye Chen continued asking for someone to move him.

Li Xuanji, Bi Liushui, and Li Fenghuai attacked the Everlasting Immortal Sect’s elders and leaders, throwing the great hall into chaos. While Fairy Fengyin watched events unfold according to her storybook, Jiang Yantian offered spirit stones to disciples willing to urinate on Ye Chen, and a long line formed.

• Li Xuanji charged Elder Lian with his rusty sword, was knocked back, and kept fighting him barehanded.
• Bi Liushui attacked Jiang Yantian and the sect master's wife, while Li Fenghuai joined the battle and the great hall began to collapse.
• Fairy Fengyin stayed seated and watched, expecting the storybook's prediction that Ye Chen would be humiliated and begin to transform.
• Jiang Yantian blamed Ye Chen for the sect's turmoil and offered disciples spirit stones to urinate on him.
• A growing crowd accepted Jiang Yantian's offer, collected spirit stones, and formed a long line in front of Ye Chen.

Ye Chen’s humiliation and despair triggered a sudden rebirth that restored his body and power. After declaring his return, he found the fighters had recognized him as the one who exposed their secrets and turned against him.

• As the bald man and then a line of spectators urinated on the motionless Ye Chen, he endured intense humiliation and despair.
• Ye Chen’s extreme emotions awakened his instincts, repairing his body and rebuilding his shattered dantian.
• Ye Chen rose into the sky, surrounded by purple-gold light, and proclaimed that the Purple Firmament Sword Lord had returned.
• The fighting stopped as everyone recognized Ye Chen as the person who had exposed Li Xuanji’s mother and others.
• Li Fenghuai, Li Xuanji, Bi Liushui, and the other elders threatened Ye Chen, and the crowd turned against him.

Ye Chen tried to convince the gathered cultivators that he was not the voice that had insulted them, but Jiang Yantian and Ji Chu turned them against him. As the cultivators launched a full-scale assault, Ye Chen drew the Purple Firmament Sword and prepared to fight back.

• Ye Chen explained that he shared the impostor's name but had been lying helpless on the ground while the others were humiliated.
• Jiang Yantian and Ji Chu accused Ye Chen of lying and plotting to take advantage of the fighting, and the gathered cultivators believed them.
• Li Xuanji charged Ye Chen, who answered with a wave of Immortal Essence; Bi Liushui shielded his grandson and counterattacked.
• Li Fenghuai, the sect master's wife, and elders from the various sects joined the attack against Ye Chen.
• Ye Chen released the Purple Firmament Sword Lord's pressure, forced weaker cultivators to their knees, and summoned the Purple Firmament Sword.

Ye Chen dominated the siege with the Purple Firmament Sword until sudden pain and a life stirring in his abdomen crippled his strength. After a desperate defensive technique drove his attackers back, his belly rapidly swelled as though he were about to give birth, and Li Xuanji announced that Ye Chen was pregnant.

• Ye Chen used the Purple Firmament Sword to break the attackers’ treasures and overwhelm Bi Liushui, Li Fenghuai, and the others without killing them.
• A severe cramp and an awakening presence in Ye Chen’s abdomen weakened him, prompting Li Fenghuai and the other attackers to resume their assault.
• Ye Chen overdrawed his soul and raised the Starry Firmament Heart Protection shield, which repelled the attackers and damaged their treasures.
• After the shield faded, Ye Chen collapsed and clutched his abdomen as it swelled rapidly to the size of a full-term pregnancy.
• Li Fenghuai and the others stared in shock, while Li Xuanji exclaimed that Ye Chen was pregnant and said he had finally cleared his name.

Li Xuanji’s claim that Ye Chen had a Womb Palace was confirmed when the elders sensed fetal Qi and a life inside him. As Bi Liushui and Li Fenghuai tried to kill Ye Chen, Jiang Yantian secretly struck them down, while Ye Chen begged to die because his life was bound to the fetus.

• Li Xuanji celebrated as the elders realized he had been right about Ye Chen’s Womb Palace.
• Elder Lian panicked as he recalled rescuing Ye Chen and wondered how the impossible pregnancy had begun.
• Bi Liushui and Li Fenghuai attacked the helpless Ye Chen, who concluded that he would rather die than endure his condition.
• Jiang Yantian secretly unleashed a force that hurled Bi Liushui and Li Fenghuai away before their attacks could land.
• Ye Chen felt his heart was connected to the ghost fetus and begged the others to kill him.

Ye Chen begged Li Fenghuai to kill him rather than endure giving birth, but Li Fenghuai ordered the elders to deliver the baby as revenge. The elders examined Ye Chen and began the delivery, announcing that the baby's head was emerging.

• Jiang Yantian urged the crowd to help deliver Ye Chen's baby because the unborn child was innocent.
• Ye Chen begged Li Fenghuai to kill him and falsely confessed to sleeping with his woman, hoping to provoke him.
• Li Fenghuai refused to kill Ye Chen and ordered the crowd to make him give birth as punishment.
• The crowd joined Li Fenghuai in demanding the delivery, and Elder Lian and three other elders stepped forward to help.
• The elders examined Ye Chen and began the delivery; Elder Lian announced that the baby's head was coming out as the crowd urged Ye Chen to push.

Ye Chen endured a humiliating, painful birth while the disciples gathered to watch and mock him. As the horned child emerged, Jiang Yantian and Li Fenghuai celebrated Ye Chen’s suffering, while Li Xuanji joined the elder in trying to help deliver the baby.

• The disciples surrounded Ye Chen as he gave birth, gossiping about the child’s horns and speculating about its father.
• Ye Chen remembered the sinister cultivator who had assaulted him and begged the elder to kill him, but the elder insisted the birth had to continue to save both him and the child.
• The elder suggested naming the child Ye Bugui, provoking Ye Chen’s fury.
• Jiang Yantian poked at the emerging child and gained Humiliation Points as he watched Ye Chen suffer.
• Li Fenghuai mocked Ye Chen for giving birth to a horned bastard, and Li Xuanji stepped in to help the elder deliver the child.
• Li Xuanji encouraged Ye Chen to push and offered to pull the child out by its horns, leaving Ye Chen enraged and faint with pain.

Ye Chen gave birth to a bizarre, articulate infant who rejected him as a mother, while Jiang Yantian decided to use the child to torment Ye Chen further. The chapter left Ye Chen screaming as Jiang Yantian suggested feeding the newborn from his body.

• Ye Chen's newborn appeared as a purple-haired, horned, one-eyed creature and spoke in a deep man's voice, asking him to carry him in Valorant.
• When Ye Chen tried to kill him, the infant dodged and declared that they had only a biological parent-child relationship.
• The disciples mocked Ye Chen's childbirth and joked about what food he should eat during postpartum confinement.
• Jiang Yantian judged the infant to be a potentially gifted but useless creature and decided to keep him as a way to torment Ye Chen.
• Jiang Yantian called the infant Ye Bugui, making him freeze in instinctive fear, then suggested that Ye Chen's body could provide a substitute for milk.
• Ye Chen screamed for Jiang Yantian to stay away from him.

Ye Chen mutilated himself to avoid being violated by the evil creature, then broke down and went mad. Li Xuanji pitied him and stepped forward with medicine to treat him.

• The evil creature approached Ye Chen and began undoing his sash while the onlookers watched in horror.
• Ye Chen slashed off his own member to stop the creature from defiling him.
• Ye Chen laughed and raved that he would never compromise as his Dao heart collapsed.
• Li Xuanji recalled the humiliations that had driven Ye Chen toward madness and stepped forward with medicine to treat him.

After Ye Chen mutilated himself, he rejected Li Xuanji’s attempt to treat him and unleashed a furious tirade against the sect’s leaders and elders. Provoked by Jiang Yantian, Ye Chen condemned the Heavenly Dao as a fraud that had made him a Child of Fortune and imprisoned him in a fate he could not escape.

• Li Xuanji tried to treat Ye Chen, but Ye Chen spat water into his mouth, cursed him, and refused his help.
• Ye Chen insulted Li Fenghuai, the sect master's wife, Bi Liushui, and Elder Lian, provoking their fury as he dared them to kill him.
• Ye Chen declared that he no longer cared about living and that being good had only made him a target for humiliation.
• Jiang Yantian secretly sent a pulse of Qi skyward and challenged Ye Chen to act in accordance with the Heavenly Dao.
• Ye Chen denounced the Heavenly Dao as a fraud that had forcibly rewritten his fate, burdened him with immense fortune and karma, and made him its puppet.

Ye Chen publicly cursed the Heavenly Dao, and Jiang Yantian broadcast his accusations throughout the myriad worlds, stirring widespread doubt. As the Everlasting Immortal Sect reeled from the scene, Li Xuanji left with Bi Liushui after threatening revenge, while the divine punishment Ye Chen expected never came.

• Ye Chen, overwhelmed by his suffering, cursed the Heavenly Dao as Jiang Yantian used All-Heavens Projection to broadcast his words across the heavens.
• The broadcast exposed the Heavenly Dao’s alleged injustices, prompting living beings throughout the myriad worlds to voice their doubts and complaints.
• Ye Chen braced for divine punishment, but none came; Jiang Yantian and Ji Chu departed after Jiang Yantian secretly placed a barrier around the Everlasting Immortal Sect.
• Bi Liushui confronted Li Fenghuai and told Li Xuanji to leave the Everlasting Immortal Sect with him.
• Li Xuanji insulted the sect and threatened revenge before Bi Liushui carried him away into the sky.

Bi Liushui and Li Xuanji were hurled back by an invisible barrier when they tried to leave the Everlasting Immortal Sect, and Li Fenghuai was injured after striking it. The sect’s people realized they were trapped, while Fairy Fengyin discovered in her storybook that the Imperishable Devil Emperor had gone to her home.

• Li Xuanji and Bi Liushui struck an invisible barrier as they tried to leave, and its backlash sent them crashing into the square.
• Bi Liushui identified the obstruction as a barrier, and Li Fenghuai and the others confirmed that it surrounded the Everlasting Immortal Sect.
• Li Fenghuai struck the barrier and was badly injured by its backlash, while disciples found they could not leave even though outsiders could enter.
• The sect’s people panicked at being trapped, and Li Xuanji regretted threatening to leave and seek revenge.
• Fairy Fengyin realized the Imperishable Devil Emperor had caused the barrier and read in her changing storybook that he had gone to her home.

Fairy Fengyin realized the barrier was Jiang Yantian’s ploy and hurried back to protect her courtyard and spirit chicken from him. Meanwhile, Jiang Yantian and Ji Chu reached her empty residence, claimed it as their new home, and set their sights on roasting one of her chickens.

• Fairy Fengyin recognized that Jiang Yantian had created the barrier to keep the sect members quiet and rushed toward her courtyard to avoid the storybook’s disastrous plot.
• Jiang Yantian and Ji Chu strolled through the mountains while the trapped disciples, elders, and venerables panicked inside the barrier.
• Jiang Yantian spotted Fairy Fengyin’s secluded courtyard and took Ji Chu there, claiming it as their home when no one answered his call.
• Ji Chu first objected to moving into someone else’s residence, but changed her mind when Jiang Yantian suggested roasting one of its spirit chickens.
• Jiang Yantian fixed his gaze on the liveliest spirit chicken as he and Ji Chu entered the courtyard.

Jiang Yantian tried to turn Fairy Fengyin’s treasured spirit chicken into a meal, but she rushed in and persuaded him to spare it. He accepted her invitation to stay at her residence, leaving Fairy Fengyin worried about hosting the Imperishable Devil Emperor.

• Jiang Yantian restrained the spirit chicken and decided to stew it for dinner with Ji Chu.
• Fairy Fengyin rushed into the courtyard and begged Jiang Yantian to spare her herb-seeking spirit chicken, which she had raised for several thousand years.
• Jiang Yantian recognized Fairy Fengyin as the woman who had accidentally kissed him earlier and let the chicken escape into the herb garden.
• Fairy Fengyin invited Jiang Yantian to stay as a guest, then regretted inviting the Imperishable Devil Emperor into her home.
• Jiang Yantian accepted and asked for a dozen dishes and several soups, while Ji Chu offered to help Fairy Fengyin host them.

Ji Chu befriended Fairy Fengyin, learned her given name was Yinshu, and invited her to cook together while Yinshu anxiously tried to avoid the fate described in a mysterious storybook. Yinshu went to call Jiang Yantian to dinner and found him fishing at the pond, where his net was empty.

• Ji Chu asked Fairy Fengyin for her given name, and Fengyin told her it was Yinshu.
• Ji Chu called Yinshu her big sister and suggested that they prepare food together, while Yinshu remained wary of her and the Devil Emperor.
• Jiang Yantian wandered to the courtyard pond and began fishing with unusual equipment.
• Ji Chu asked Yinshu to call her husband over to eat, and Yinshu belatedly worried that she had implied Jiang Yantian was their husband.
• Yinshu found Jiang Yantian fishing beside the pond and told him it was time for dinner, while his net remained empty.

Jiang Yantian grew furious when Yinshu easily caught fish after he had spent hours catching none, and he snapped her fishing rod before leading her back to dinner. At the table, Yinshu remained confused and hurt, while Ji Chu tried to understand their tense silence.

• Yinshu took Jiang Yantian's fishing rod and quickly caught a golden-scaled carp, prompting him to leave in frustration.
• When Yinshu caught another fish, Jiang Yantian returned, broke the rod, and scolded her for fishing.
• Jiang Yantian kicked a stone that struck Li Xuanji, earning 500,000 Humiliation Points.
• Jiang Yantian and Yinshu returned to the courtyard in silence, and Ji Chu noticed their gloomy moods over dinner.
• Yinshu questioned why Jiang Yantian was angry, while he sarcastically praised her for catching two fish.

Yinshu left the courtyard after Jiang Yantian sulked over fishing, then discovered she could pass through his barrier and read the storybook’s changed plot. The book showed Jiang Yantian heading for her room and finding her intimate undergarment, so she rushed back in alarm.

• Jiang Yantian abruptly left the meal and hurried to the pond, leaving Yinshu and Ji Chu puzzled by his behavior.
• Yinshu asked Ji Chu not to call Jiang Yantian her husband, then left the courtyard to escape the awkwardness.
• Yinshu wandered beyond the Everlasting Immortal Sect and discovered she could cross Jiang Yantian’s barrier freely.
• Yinshu reread the storybook and found that its account of the fishing incident matched what had happened.
• Yinshu read that Jiang Yantian would enter her room and find her undergarment, then teleported back to the courtyard in panic.

Yinshu rushed into her bedchamber to confront Jiang Yantian over her missing undergarment, only to find him naked beside a steaming bathtub. After he stopped her from leaving and teased her, Yinshu closed her eyes and stayed still, hoping he would lose interest, but Jiang Yantian mistook her reaction for playing along and kissed her.

• Yinshu rushed into her bedchamber, saw Jiang Yantian naked beside a bathtub, and froze in shock.
• Jiang Yantian teased Yinshu about barging in to help him bathe, then shut the door with Devil Qi when she tried to leave.
• Jiang Yantian teased Yinshu about catching fish and taking the bait while she worried that resisting him would only encourage him.
• Yinshu closed her eyes and stayed still, hoping Jiang Yantian would find her uninteresting and let her go.
• Jiang Yantian took Yinshu's stillness as encouragement, pulled her into his arms, and kissed her.

Yinshu fled after Jiang Yantian kissed her, then discovered the storybook had updated to record the encounter and warn that she could not escape. She threw the book into the woods and stayed hidden beneath an old tree, afraid to return to Jiang Yantian’s room.

• Jiang Yantian kissed Yinshu until she softened into his embrace, then teased her for not resisting.
• Yinshu fled the room and hid beneath a large tree while Jiang Yantian stayed behind to bathe.
• Yinshu checked the storybook and realized its latest pages had recorded their kiss and her escape beneath the tree.
• Yinshu turned the next page and read the warning, “Madam Devil Emperor, you cannot escape.”
• Yinshu hurled the storybook into the woods and remained hidden, wary of returning to Jiang Yantian.

After a golden storybook landed beside the wounded Ye Chen, he discovered it recorded his life and showed him ways to change his fate. The book predicted events exactly, and its ending revealed a future in which Ye Chen and Xuanji defeated their enemies and lived together, giving Ye Chen hope to follow its instructions.

• A golden storybook drifted into the immortal sect's square and landed beside the despairing, badly wounded Ye Chen.
• Ye Chen recognized the title Sword Sovereign's Fate-Changing Record and read that it documented his past and offered ways to change his fate.
• Ye Chen found an entry about Xuanji's great fortune slipping beyond his grasp and wondered if it showed him how to seize his chance.
• Ye Chen punched himself to test the book, then read its next page and confirmed it had predicted his actions exactly.
• Ye Chen turned to the last page and saw that he and Xuanji would defeat their foes, establish a new world, and spend their lives together.
• Ye Chen decided the storybook was real and resolved to follow its instructions to change his fate.

Ye Chen used the storybook’s foresight to decide that finding Li Xuanji and joining forces with him was the way out of the sect’s crisis. He reached Li Xuanji’s hall and misunderstood Li Xuanji’s attempts to soothe an injury as something intimate.

• Ye Chen read the storybook and concluded that Li Xuanji was the Xuanji destined to stand beside him.
• Ye Chen pushed through his injuries and used the sect’s confusion to evade patrols on his way to Li Xuanji’s residence.
• Li Xuanji, injured after a stone struck his most vulnerable part, blamed Ye Chen and cursed him while trying to ease the pain.
• Ye Chen heard Li Xuanji’s complaints from outside the hall and quietly opened the door to look inside.
• Ye Chen saw Li Xuanji rubbing his injured part and froze, embarrassed and shocked.