Recaps

Xie Feng defeated Princess Qianying in a swordsmanship duel without using a sword, then accepted her as his student. Qianying declared him her Sword Dao teacher and defended him from Mo Wu, leaving Mo Wu resentful.

• The crowd gossiped about Xie Feng’s looks and speculated that Qianying had taken a fancy to him before their duel began.
• Qianying attacked Xie Feng with her Emperor Sword, but he cut through her Sword Qi and shattered the weapon with a beam from his fingers.
• Xie Feng broke Qianying’s defensive shield and forced her to kneel and kowtow, then released her when she demanded he withdraw the pressure.
• Qianying acknowledged Xie Feng’s skill and named him her Sword Dao teacher, warning Mo Wu and the others not to disrespect him.
• Qianying introduced herself as Xie Feng’s student and kowtowed to him twice, while Mo Wu glared at Xie Feng resentfully.

Qianying brought Xie Feng to the imperial city and introduced him as her teacher, but Grand Elder Xin Zhong objected to a human teaching the princess. After Xie Feng easily overpowered him and spared him, Qianying took Xie Feng to the academy and offered him its resources and a generous teaching fee.

• Qianying showed Xie Feng the imperial city and told him he would live at the academy near her residence.
• Grand Elder Xin Zhong challenged Qianying’s choice of a human teacher and insisted that Xie Feng remain confined to the academy.
• Xie Feng teleported to Xin Zhong, held his fingers to the elder’s neck, and warned that he could have killed him before letting him go.
• Qianying praised Xie Feng and said she trusted him, while he asked whether she believed he had never killed an Earthborn Devil Creature in the Origin Realm.
• Qianying brought Xie Feng to the academy, offered him its facilities, and proposed paying him three million Origin Coins a day.

After Qianying left, Xie Feng explored the underground city and clashed with Xin Zhong, who asked him to save the princess from a life-threatening condition. Xie Feng agreed for thirty million and warned Xin Zhong not to spy on him, then shut himself inside the academy.

• Qianying left Xie Feng to familiarize himself with the academy while she handled her own affairs.
• Xie Feng surveyed the underground city’s powerful defenses before Xin Zhong confronted him for wandering outside the academy.
• Xie Feng traded insults with Xin Zhong, who eventually explained that Qianying was born without a dantian and faced dangerous backlash from the core pearl sustaining her cultivation.
• Xin Zhong appealed to Xie Feng to save Qianying, and Xie Feng agreed in exchange for thirty million.
• Xie Feng demanded that Xin Zhong pay from his own pocket and stop spying on him, then killed the hidden watcher and shut the academy gates.

Xie Feng refined the lightning energy he had absorbed and discovered that both it and Dao Qi could be converted into Origin Power, advancing his cultivation to the tenth stage of the Nirvana Realm. Qianying visited with pastries and revealed that she had been born without a dantian, and Xie Feng began examining her with his Void Heaven Spirit Eyes.

• Kong Qiusu buried himself in Xie Feng's cultivation manuals, while Little Sword drained jars of spirit liquids until Xie Feng sealed it inside one.
• Xie Feng refined the lightning energy in his dantian and found that both lightning energy and Dao Qi could transform into Origin Power.
• Xie Feng reached the tenth stage of the Nirvana Realm and estimated that his combined strength was around the eighth or ninth stage of the Universe Creation Realm.
• Qianying brought pastries to Xie Feng and tried to tell him that she had been born without a dantian, but he said the First Elder had already told him.
• Xie Feng asked to examine Qianying's dantian pearl and used his Void Heaven Spirit Eyes to look at her dantian.

Xie Feng learned that Qianying was born without a dantian and found a pill formula that could help her, but its rare ingredients remained to be gathered. He asked Ge Ya to find creation dust, and Ge Ya agreed after wiping out the alien beasts pursuing him.

• Xie Feng examined Qianying and saw that a black corruption was slowly spreading across the red bead in place of her missing dantian, but he could not yet treat her.
• Kong Qiusu told Xie Feng about the Exquisite Dantian-Opening Pill and gave him its formula; Xie Feng asked Xiao Tianzi to gather more than two hundred medicinal ingredients.
• Xie Feng contacted Ge Ya to ask about creation dust, one of the pill's three rare primary ingredients.
• Ge Ya took a call from Xie Feng while alien beasts pursued him for stealing their energy stone, then killed them all when they interrupted his conversation.
• Ge Ya promised to find creation dust and planned to use the energy stone to pursue the silver lightning bolts.

Xie Feng sought out Yu Xiu to offer a cure for Princess Qianying’s missing dantian while pursuing the ingredients for a pill and keeping his search for the Golden Tomb in mind. He revealed that he could refine the Exquisite Dantian-Opening Pill, and Yu Xiu urgently asked what he needed.

• Xie Feng learned that the remaining pill ingredients came from powerful dragon and python Earthborn Devil Creatures, then decided to ask Gu Yuan for help.
• Xie Feng demanded that Xin Zhong take him to Yu Xiu, Qianying’s birth father, at the priestess’s temple.
• The priestess died after seeing Xie Feng, and Little Sword and Kong Qiusu revealed that she had probed him during his tribulation crossing and been struck by the bookworm.
• Yu Xiu discovered that Xie Feng could resolve Qianying’s missing dantian with a Dao Grade Exquisite Dantian-Opening Pill.
• Yu Xiu’s suspicion turned to hope, and he urgently asked Xie Feng what he needed.

Xie Feng secured the ingredients, a priest’s position, and sixty million Origin Coins from Yu Xiu in exchange for helping Qianying open her dantian. After taking over the priests’ temple, he found a map of the Golden Devil Emperor Silkworm Race’s forbidden grounds and went to seek Xin Zhong.

• Xie Feng asked Yu Xiu to obtain a ten-thousand-year dragon horn and python king blood, and Yu Xiu agreed to pursue the dragon horn while Xie Feng handled the Creation Dust.
• Xie Feng persuaded Yu Xiu to make him a priest and pay him sixty million Origin Coins for refining the Exquisite Dantian-Opening Pill.
• Xie Feng explored the priests’ temple, where Little Sword absorbed all its spirit liquid and silenced the protesting priests by invoking Yu Xiu’s support.
• Xie Feng searched the temple’s secret chamber and found a map marking more than a thousand forbidden grounds, including two hundred important sites.
• Xie Feng put the map in his spatial ring and went to find Xin Zhong.

Xie Feng pressured Patriarch Lu Yuan into finding python king blood and paying him to help save Qianying, then returned to teach her swordsmanship. The chapter ended with Qianying choosing to learn Xie Feng’s exclusive secret technique, the Xuanji Sword Art.

• Xie Feng made Xin Zhong take him to Changyuan Hall to meet the second patriarch, Lu Yuan.
• Xie Feng told Lu Yuan that Qianying needed a Dao Grade Exquisite Dantian-Opening Pill and that python king blood was the last ingredient he needed.
• Xie Feng guilted Lu Yuan into agreeing to find python king blood and took ninety million from him for refining the pill.
• Xie Feng returned to the academy, where Qianying greeted him while practicing swordsmanship.
• Xie Feng offered Qianying a choice of sword arts, and she chose his exclusive secret technique, the Xuanji Sword Art.

Xie Feng trained Qianying until she broke through to the ninth tier of the Origin Insight Realm, then accompanied her to eat noodles. When Qianying led him from the underground city to her secret refuge, Xie Feng discovered it was the Spirit Silence Swamp, a super forbidden land.

• Xie Feng stopped teaching Qianying after three moves and set Little Sword to spar with her.
• Qianying fought Little Sword, broke through to the ninth tier of the Origin Insight Realm, and thanked Xie Feng for his guidance.
• Qianying persuaded Xie Feng to eat at a noodle shop called Whatever, where he spoke about his faraway homeland.
• Qianying invited Xie Feng to find a strange creature at her secret base in a forbidden land.
• Xie Feng and Qianying left the underground city and entered the Spirit Silence Swamp, where Qianying guided him past traps.

Xie Feng followed Kong Qiusu’s sense of the Golden Tomb into a hidden space beneath Spirit Silence Swamp and found a stele naming the tomb of a sinner of the Kong clan. A snake-scaled, cat-eyed tomb keeper attacked him, and Xie Feng recognized him as the creature Qianying had sought.

• Qianying and Xie Feng split up in Spirit Silence Swamp to search for a snake-and-cat-like monster.
• Kong Qiusu guided Xie Feng to a hidden space in a valley, where Xie Feng used the Azure Profound Fan to open a rift.
• Xie Feng found a moonlit black forest filled with the power of the starry sky and discovered a projected stele reading “The tomb of the sinner of the Kong clan.”
• Kong Qiusu could not remember why he was called a sinner, so Xie Feng flew toward the moonlight seeking answers.
• A tomb keeper descended from the moonlight and clashed with Xie Feng before revealing his snake scales and catlike eyes.
• Xie Feng recognized the tomb keeper as the creature Qianying was searching for, but the tomb keeper charged at him without answering his questions.

Xie Feng killed the tomb keeper and found a ring before the stele transformed into the Cloud Dream Sea, where the sea’s power rapidly raised his cultivation. Little Sword also recovered his true strength and began advancing to the Extreme Dao Sword, but a Sword Tribulation struck, and Xie Feng threw him A Candle in the Mortal World to help him face it.

• Xie Feng crushed the tomb keeper with his silver dragon, then picked up a black ring marked with the character for “tomb.”
• Xie Feng reached for the stone stele, which broke apart and released the Cloud Dream Sea; Little Sword recognized it as the place where he had once tempered himself for thirty thousand years.
• Xie Feng and Kong Qiusu reasoned that spatial turbulence had brought the real Cloud Dream Sea into the Origin Realm, and Xie Feng urged Little Sword to replenish his power there.
• Xie Feng meditated in the sea and rapidly advanced from the Nirvana Realm through the Universe Creation Realm, while his physique and soul power strengthened.
• Little Sword absorbed the sea’s power and advanced from the Cherished Wine Cup Dao Sword to the Extreme Dao Sword, then faced a destructive Sword Tribulation.
• Xie Feng hurled A Candle in the Mortal World toward Little Sword to help him withstand the tribulation.

After Little Sword became an Extreme Dao Sword, Kong Qiusu explained its danger and revealed that he was keeping its devouring nature suppressed. Xie Feng then met the injured owner of Cloud Dream Sea, who demanded his help.

• Little Sword celebrated becoming an Extreme Dao Sword, but Kong Qiusu defeated him with Emperor Su's Eight Returns, leaving him unconscious.
• Kong Qiusu explained that Extreme Dao Swords could devour wielders too weak to control them and that Little Sword was one formed through division.
• Xie Feng asked about Long Cangxue, his missing master, and cultivating fate, while Kong Qiusu admitted he had forgotten many techniques.
• A woman in green appeared at Cloud Dream Sea and confirmed it belonged to her.
• The woman in green revealed that she was severely injured and demanded that Xie Feng help her, asking whether he was an alchemist.

Xie Feng agreed to find ingredients and refine the Great Origin Dao Pill for Yue Heng in exchange for the Cloud Dream Sea, then sent her to recuperate at the Xuanji Sect. He returned to the swamp and reunited with Qianying, who decided they should go back.

• Kong Qiusu provided the Great Origin Dao Pill formula, and Xie Feng learned that the Cloud Dream Sea was one of its four ingredients.
• Yue Heng promised Xie Feng the Cloud Dream Sea if he refined the pill, and they sealed the deal with a pinky swear.
• Xie Feng and Yue Heng exchanged names, and he recalled the casual origins of Kong Qiusu and Ge Ya's names.
• Xie Feng asked Yue Heng to recuperate at the Xuanji Sect, then collected bottles of Cloud Dream Sea water as Little Sword escorted her there.
• Xie Feng returned to the swamp and told Qianying he had not found what they sought; Qianying gave up searching and urged them to return before her father discovered she had entered the forbidden grounds.

Xie Feng collected fifty million Origin Coins from Lu Yuan to obtain python king blood for Princess Qianying’s treatment, then left the Golden Devil Emperor Silkworm Race. After saying goodbye to Qianying, he returned to the Xuanji Sect and found Gu Yuan being used as a punching bag.

• Xie Feng confronted Lu Yuan about the missing python king blood, then accepted Lu Yuan’s fifty-million-Origin-Coin reward to retrieve it himself.
• Lu Yuan made Xie Feng promise to obtain the blood and told him to seek money from Lu Yuan’s younger brother next time.
• Qianying visited Xie Feng before he left and asked to travel with him, but he refused and told her to keep her affection to herself.
• Qianying asked whether Xie Feng loved someone, and he said he did not know.
• Xie Feng returned to the Xuanji Sect and found Gu Yuan tied to a tree while disciples punched him; Gu Yuan said he had volunteered but complained that it hurt.

Xie Feng gave Cloud Dream Sea water to his companions and persuaded Gu Yuan to help him obtain blood from a Heavenly Gu Emperor Python. After spending the night cultivating in the Cloud Dream Sea, Sushang and Xie Feng's four disciples made major breakthroughs.

• Little Sword fled into Xie Feng's dantian, leaving Gu Yuan worried about its power.
• Xie Feng gave Cloud Dream Sea water to Sushang, Gu Yuan, and his four disciples, then revealed that Yue Heng had once owned the Cloud Dream Sea.
• Xie Feng asked Gu Yuan to obtain blood from a Heavenly Gu Emperor Python, and Gu Yuan agreed after Xie Feng teased him about being afraid.
• Xie Feng opened the Cloud Dream Sea space, where Sushang converted her Dao Qi into Origin Power and reached the tenth stage of the Universe Creation Realm.
• After spending the night in the sea, Ze Ling, A Ning, Lei Xing, and Cang Tong all advanced to the Insight Realm.

After A Ning and Lei Xing were attacked in town, Lei Xing returned to the Xuanji Sect and reported that A Ning had been kidnapped. Cang Tong and Yue Heng identified the python scales on A Ning’s sword as belonging to a high-ranking Heavenly Gu Emperor Python, and Sushang realized A Ning carried that clan’s bloodline.

• A Ning sold her healing pills in town, then took Lei Xing to a beef soup stall for a meal.
• Two gray-robed strangers noticed the golden scale on A Ning’s sword and followed her and Lei Xing after they left the stall.
• The strangers knocked A Ning unconscious and attacked Lei Xing with poisonous mist; Lei Xing collapsed while A Ning was taken.
• Ze Ling found Lei Xing unconscious and brought him back to the Xuanji Sect, where he told Sushang that A Ning had been kidnapped.
• Cang Tong explained that A Ning and he had taken golden scales from a black-and-white python, and Yue Heng identified the creature as a high-ranking Heavenly Gu Emperor Python.
• Sushang recalled that A Ning was a Heavenly Gu Glazed Python with Heavenly Gu Emperor Python blood, while Yue Heng explained how high-level races treated mixed-bloods.

Xie Feng went to the Heavenly Gu Emperor Python Race to find A Ning and learn why the race had taken her. After confirming she was safe, he told Bu Lei he planned to beat him up to obtain his Python King blood.

• Xie Feng told Sushang to care for Lei Xing and collect the medicinal ingredients while he went to the Heavenly Gu Emperor Python Race.
• Xie Feng appeared in Nine Python City’s royal palace and confronted Bu Lei about A Ning.
• Xie Feng threatened Bu Lei with the Extreme Dao Sword, and Bu Lei admitted that his people had brought A Ning to the race after discovering her mixed-blood heritage.
• Bu Lei showed Xie Feng a mirror image of A Ning, who appeared safe and well.
• Xie Feng asked Bu Lei for his Python King bloodline, then announced that he wanted to beat him up.

Xie Feng beat Bu Lei and collected his blood before leaving, and Gu Yuan then arrived demanding to know where A Ning was. After confirming she was safe, Gu Yuan threatened Bu Lei into giving him blood as well.

• Xie Feng struck Bu Lei, collected his blood, and left after telling him to treat A Ning well.
• Bu Lei learned that Gu Yuan had invaded and killed two gray-robed commanders, then Gu Yuan seized him and demanded to know where A Ning was.
• Bu Lei showed Gu Yuan a mirror of Origin Power revealing A Ning's condition, and Gu Yuan accepted his explanation for the moment.
• Gu Yuan demanded a few drops of Bu Lei's blood and threatened him with the Profound Abyss Saber when Bu Lei resisted.

Xie Feng obtained the final ingredient for the Exquisite Dantian-Opening Pill, refined it, and gave it to Qianying. As the pill formed her dantian, her cultivation surged from the Origin Insight Realm Ninth Stage to the Creation Realm Ninth Stage.

• Gu Yuan took Bu Lei’s Python King Blood, then learned Xie Feng had already taken some and discarded it before leaving.
• Xie Feng returned to the Xuanji Sect, where Sushang gave him the gathered ingredients, and he went to Yu Xiu for the ten-thousand-year dragon horns.
• Yu Xiu revealed that the Shadow Dragon Royal Clan had badly injured him and asked Xie Feng to take Qianying away, but Xie Feng refused to get involved in the race’s internal conflict.
• Xie Feng refined the Exquisite Dantian-Opening Pill over three days and brought it to Qianying.
• Qianying swallowed the pill, formed a dantian, and rose from the Origin Insight Realm Ninth Stage to the Creation Realm Ninth Stage.

After opening Qianying’s dantian, Xie Feng tried to leave the Golden Devil Emperor Silkworm Race, but Yu Xiu and his allies accused him of stealing the queen’s cocoon and killing the priestess. Xie Feng defeated the soldiers and killed Mo Wu and Xin Zhong, spared Yu Xiu for Qianying’s sake, and vanished as Yu Xiu set out after him.

• Qianying’s cultivation stabilized after Xie Feng opened her dantian, and she chased after him when he announced he was leaving.
• Yu Xiu, Xin Zhong, and Mo Wu surrounded Xie Feng and accused him of taking the queen’s cocoon and its power; Qianying arrived and pleaded for her father to spare her teacher.
• When Xin Zhong ordered the troops to seize Xie Feng, Xie Feng unleashed silver dragons that destroyed the soldiers surrounding him.
• Xie Feng killed Mo Wu and Xin Zhong, then stopped Yu Xiu’s attack and spared him for Qianying’s sake.
• Xie Feng vanished, and Yu Xiu resolved to pursue him rather than let him leave unpunished.

Lu Yuan killed Yu Xiu and tried to kill Qianying, but Little Sword arrived and slew him and his soldiers. Qianying said goodbye to Little Sword and Xie Feng, while Xie Feng returned to the Xuanji Sect and asked Gu Yuan for help finding ingredients for Yue Heng’s Great Origin Dao Pill.

• Lu Yuan killed Yu Xiu, framed Xie Feng, and drove the elders to pursue him.
• Lu Yuan defeated Qianying and prepared to cripple her, but Little Sword killed him and wiped out his soldiers.
• Qianying asked Little Sword where Xie Feng was, then said goodbye to both him and her teacher as Little Sword departed.
• Xie Feng returned to the Xuanji Sect and asked Gu Yuan how to find origin-shaping wood and dark spirit fruit for Yue Heng’s Great Origin Dao Pill.

Xie Feng and Gu Yuan traveled to the Azure Mystic Domain to search for origin-shaping wood and dark spirit fruit, then attended the Heavenly Mystic Auction House’s sale of ten rare treasures. As Mu Ting began the auction, Xie Feng used his Void Heaven Spirit Eyes to inspect the chests and frowned at what he saw.

• Gu Yuan suggested searching the commercial hub of the Azure Mystic Domain, and Xie Feng agreed to go there with him.
• Xie Feng and Gu Yuan reached Central City and paid for front-row seats at the Heavenly Mystic Auction House.
• Xu Xiang tried to order Xie Feng aside, but a woman in his group scolded him and apologized to Xie Feng.
• Gu Yuan identified the woman hosting the auction as Mu Ting, a partner of the Heavenly Mystic Auction House.
• Mu Ting opened the first chest and presented the Thunder Radiance Battle Armor, while Xie Feng used his Void Heaven Spirit Eyes to inspect the treasures and frowned.

Xie Feng remained uninterested in most of the auction’s treasures until Kong Qiusu urged him to buy the Cangwu Heart Source, suspecting its included seed was unusual. After Xie Feng’s side won it for fifty thousand Origin Coins, he waited for the mysterious final item.

• Mu Ting introduced the Cangwu Heart Source, but the audience showed little interest until she offered a tree seed with it.
• Kong Qiusu told Xie Feng that the seed might not be a genuine Cangwu tree seed and urged him to buy it.
• Xie Feng told Gu Yuan to bid, and Gu Yuan won the Cangwu Heart Source for fifty thousand Origin Coins.
• Xu Xiang mocked Xie Feng and Gu Yuan, while the woman beside him warned him not to cause trouble.
• As Mu Ting continued auctioning the remaining treasures, Xie Feng said he was waiting for the mysterious final item, and Gu Yuan joked about his ability to see through things.

Xie Feng and Gu Yuan watched the auction’s final lot, the Dark Spirit Fruit, spark a fierce bidding war between the Blazing Devil Dragon Clan and the Heavenly Gu Emperor Python Race. As the price reached fifty million, Xie Feng waited for the factions to weaken each other before making a move.

• Gu Yuan teased Xie Feng about the cloaked silver-haired woman sitting nearby, and Xie Feng told him to stop acting like a sex devil.
• Mu Ting unveiled the Dark Spirit Fruit and explained that it could upgrade objects when fused with them, prompting the guests to compete for it.
• Xie Feng recognized the Dark Spirit Fruit as something he needed, while Gu Yuan marveled at his luck.
• Xie Feng identified the rival bidders as the Heavenly Gu Emperor Python Race and advised Gu Yuan to let them and the Blazing Devil Dragon Clan fight first.
• The bidding climbed to fifty million, and Ni Hao urged Mu Ting to end the auction as a broad-backed man asked their prince what he thought.

Xie Feng and Gu Yuan entered a fierce bidding contest with Bu Lei for the Dark Spirit Fruit, until a silver-haired woman suddenly bid two hundred million and won it. She then declared that the treasure would be a gift for Gu Yuan, leaving him and Xie Feng stunned.

• Gu Yuan followed Xie Feng’s instructions to raise the bid by only a thousand Origin Coins each time Bu Lei bid, frustrating Bu Lei and his companions.
• Bu Lei continued bidding despite the rising cost after Ni Hao and Fang Mu urged him to consider the benefits of the Dark Spirit Fruit.
• When Bu Lei raised the bid to eighty million, the silver-haired woman abruptly offered two hundred million.
• Bu Lei decided he could not risk matching the woman’s bid, and the Heavenly Gu Emperor Python Race stopped bidding.
• The silver-haired woman said the Dark Spirit Fruit she had won would be a gift for Gu Yuan, who was stunned because he did not know her.