Recaps

Xie Feng learned how a sword fragment had fallen from a clash between two mysterious fighters and took it, leaving Little Sword heartbroken. While browsing with Jin Yue, he encountered Mu Tiandao, who mistook him for Lu Xun and offered medicine while pursuing Lu Xun’s ancient elephant skull; Jin Yue explained Mu’s motives, and they continued shopping.

• Xie Feng paid the stallholder a hundred strands of Emperor's Fortune to learn that the sword fragment had fallen during a battle between two fighters in the sky amid a storm.
• Xie Feng took the fragment into his dantian, where Little Sword mourned what it called its departed love.
• Mu Tiandao greeted Xie Feng as Lu Xun and offered him healing pills, while hinting that he still wanted Lu Xun’s ancient elephant skull.
• Jin Yue refused the pills and told Mu Tiandao they would visit him another time.
• After Mu Tiandao left, Jin Yue explained that he was the Heavenly Saber Sect’s wealthy sect master and had pursued the skull for years, then continued browsing with Xie Feng.

Xie Feng and Jin Yue disguised themselves as the island lord of Misty Rain Island and his wife to enter the Peak of Heaven ahead of its banquet. At the inn, they encountered Ming Dao, a King's Disciple of the Demon-Burying Clan, whose arrival drew wary attention as he approached their table.

• Xie Feng bought clay figurines of the island lord of Misty Rain Island and his wife, then revealed that he and Jin Yue had used disguise techniques to take their appearances.
• Xie Feng and Jin Yue presented their invitation at the Peak of Heaven and were escorted to a guest pavilion before heading to the inn for food and information.
• Xie Feng overheard diners explain that Ming Dao belonged to the Demon-Burying Clan's peace faction, which sought to end its feud with the Peak of Heaven.
• Ming Dao entered the crowded inn with two lackeys, refused to clear the place, and walked toward the empty seats at Xie Feng and Jin Yue's table.

Xie Feng let Ming Dao believe he could help secure the auction’s final lot in exchange for the Demon-Burying Clan’s best plot of land, then secretly followed a purple-robed man into the snowy mountains. The chapter ended with Xie Feng confronting the man and guessing that he was clutching something valuable.

• Ming Dao revealed that he had killed the real Lu Xun and his wife, then asked Xie Feng to obtain the auction’s final lot.
• Xie Feng demanded the Demon-Burying Clan’s best plot of land as payment, and Ming Dao agreed.
• Xie Feng broke through to intermediate God Grade while meditating at midnight.
• Xie Feng followed a streak of purple light to the snowy mountains and met the purple-robed man who had noticed him.
• Xie Feng stared at the purple-robed man’s clenched hand and guessed that it held something valuable.

Xie Feng subdued Third Brother and learned that the stolen ring came from Feng Yan’s private treasury before following him to the Non-Sinking Sea. As they descended through the sea’s formation, Xie Feng remembered that he had entered it five years earlier and found a Golden Tomb beneath the seabed.

• Xie Feng struck the purple-robed man with the Dark Ink Fan, disarmed him, and claimed the ancient ring containing a supreme-grade movement technique.
• The purple-robed man admitted that he had taken the ring from Feng Yan’s private treasury and introduced himself as Third Brother.
• Xie Feng identified himself as Lu Xun and ordered Third Brother to lead him to the treasury.
• Third Brother brought Xie Feng to the Non-Sinking Sea and explained that a formation guarded it after a space-time disturbance years earlier.
• Xie Feng recognized the sea as the place where he had once found a Golden Tomb, while Third Brother used a flask holding Feng Yan’s presence to carry them safely beneath the surface.

Xie Feng and Third Brother broke into Feng Yan’s private treasury, where Xie Feng found Jin Yue and Feng Xuan’s marriage contract and emptied the entire chamber. He gave the contract to Jin Yue, who kept it with her until dawn.

• Third Brother used a counterfeit of Feng Yan’s fingerprint to open the sealed entrance to the private treasury beneath the Non-Sinking Sea.
• Xie Feng searched the treasury for the Golden Tomb but found no trace of his eldest senior brother’s body.
• Xie Feng discovered Jin Yue and Feng Xuan’s marriage contract, took it, and swept the rest of the treasury into his spatial ring.
• Third Brother fled after Xie Feng left the treasury completely bare, and Xie Feng returned to his lodgings.
• Xie Feng gave Jin Yue the marriage contract, and she learned Feng Yan had lied about burning it.
• Jin Yue sat alone with the contract until dawn.

Xie Feng and Jin Yue attended the Peak of Heaven’s banquet in disguise as Lu Xun and his wife, where Xie Feng reunited with Feng Luo, the imperial son he had helped rob Feng Yan’s secret stash. After meeting several guests and learning Feng Hao was the Peak of Heaven’s crown prince, Xie Feng watched Feng Hao and Feng Luo trade barbs.

• Xie Feng and Jin Yue arrived at the Snow Palace banquet, where Mu Tiandao reminded Xie Feng to visit Misty Rain Island after the feast.
• Feng Luo arrived and recognized Xie Feng, who teased him about their raid on Feng Yan’s secret stash before explaining the incident to Jin Yue.
• Feng Luo introduced Xie Feng to guests from powerful factions, and Ming Dao reminded Xie Feng to help him bid on the final auction item.
• Feng Hao arrived to an enthusiastic welcome, and Feng Luo told Xie Feng that Feng Hao was the Peak of Heaven’s crown prince.
• Feng Hao approached Feng Luo, and the brothers exchanged pointed remarks about Feng Hao arriving late.

At a banquet, Feng Hao provoked Xie Feng into a fight and was swiftly defeated, leaving him humiliated at the entrance. After Xie Feng demanded a hundred thousand strands of Emperor's Fortune as the winner's reward, Liu Cheng challenged his fairness.

• Feng Hao insulted Xie Feng and demanded a fight after Feng Luo warned him against provoking them.
• Xie Feng agreed to fight Feng Hao, and they set the loser's seat at the main entrance as a condition.
• Feng Hao's punches failed to hit Xie Feng, who then struck him with one-tenth-strength Qilin King's Heaven-Obscuring Palm and sent him to the entrance.
• Xie Feng added a hundred thousand strands of Emperor's Fortune to Feng Hao's forfeit, and the grand elder accepted the result.
• Liu Cheng accused Xie Feng of bullying someone younger, and Xie Feng asked what Liu Cheng considered fair.

Jin Yue defeated Liu Cheng in one move after he challenged Xie Feng, and Xie Feng mocked the two men who had lost to him. Feng Yan arrived, recognized Jin Yue despite her disguise, and asked Xie Feng to let Feng Hao return to his seat; Xie Feng agreed.

• Liu Cheng challenged Xie Feng, but Xie Feng told him to fight Jin Yue instead.
• Jin Yue concealed her true power, defeated Liu Cheng with a single move, and forced him to admit defeat.
• Xie Feng mocked Liu Cheng and Changshu Pavilion while Feng Hao watched furiously.
• Feng Yan arrived with Qing Yi and the Ming King, and Feng Luo explained who the men were to Xie Feng.
• Feng Yan quietly revealed that he recognized Jin Yue, then agreed with Xie Feng that Feng Hao deserved his earlier lesson.
• Feng Yan asked Xie Feng to let Feng Hao return to his seat, and Xie Feng agreed to give the Phoenix Lord face.

At a banquet marking Feng Xuan’s death, Feng Yan presented the Tracing Moon Diagram and offered a free auction item to anyone who could break its seal. Xie Feng learned that Jin Yue had the first half, recognized Feng Xuan as his eldest senior brother Kong Qiusu, and revealed that he had mastered the formations in that half.

• Feng Hao threatened Xie Feng, but Feng Luo drove him away and warned Xie Feng about his grudge-holding nature.
• Feng Yan announced that the banquet marked the death anniversary of the previous Phoenix Lord, Feng Xuan.
• Feng Luo told Xie Feng that Feng Xuan had been accused of betraying the Peak of Heaven during the Demon-Burying Clan rebellion and had been killed by Feng Yan and his allies.
• Feng Yan unveiled Feng Xuan’s Tracing Moon Diagram, a formation cultivation technique, and promised a free auction item to anyone who broke its seal.
• Jin Yue said Feng Yan’s scroll was the second half of the diagram and accused him of taking Feng Xuan’s belongings.
• Xie Feng concluded that Feng Xuan was his eldest senior brother, Kong Qiusu, and told Jin Yue he had already mastered the formations in the first half.

Xie Feng broke the seal on Feng Yan’s Tracing Moon Diagram and secretly memorized its contents, then traded the scroll back for two auction items. After the banquet ended, the guests moved upstairs for the auction.

• Feng Hao, Feng Luo, Mu Tiandao, Liu Cheng, and several alchemists failed to break the seal on Feng Yan’s Tracing Moon Diagram.
• Xie Feng offered to undo the seal in exchange for the scroll, promising Feng Yan fifty million Emperor’s Fortune if he failed.
• Xie Feng used Chaos Power to break the seal and memorized the Tracing Moon Diagram with his divine sense.
• Feng Yan avoided handing over the scroll, but Xie Feng returned it and asked for two treasures from the auction instead.
• Feng Yan agreed, and half an hour after the banquet ended, everyone moved to the second floor for the auction.

Xie Feng attended the Peak of Heaven auction, accepted two gifts from Feng Yan, and made Feng Luo his little brother in exchange for tribute. He bought a perpetual power stone and agreed to help Ming Dao obtain the final auction item as he sought a place to settle in the Fifth Universe.

• A black-robed man delivered Xie Feng two sealed auction items from Feng Yan, which were removed from the sale.
• Feng Luo offered Xie Feng ten thousand Emperor's Fortune to become his little brother, and Xie Feng accepted.
• The auction opened with an Origin Level cultivation technique and sword, which other bidders won for one million and two million Emperor's Fortune.
• Xie Feng bought a fist-sized perpetual power stone for ten thousand Emperor's Fortune after other attendees declined to bid.
• During the intermission before the final item, Ming Dao signaled Xie Feng to help him win it, and Xie Feng agreed.

At the auction, the final lot was revealed as a seven-thousand-year-old energy source said to help someone break through two major realms. Xie Feng entered the bidding against Mu Tiandao, then privately offered him the ancient elephant skull to make him stop, leaving Mu Tiandao tempted by the deal.

• The auctioneer announced that the final lot was a peerless energy source whose contents would only be revealed to the winner.
• The crowd began bidding, and Mu Tiandao and Ming Dao drove the price into the tens of millions before Ming Dao ran out of money.
• Mu Tiandao bid one hundred million Emperor's Fortune, and Xie Feng entered the contest with a bid of three hundred million.
• Mu Tiandao raised the price to six hundred million as Feng Yan looked forward to the auction's proceeds benefiting the Emperor Phoenix Clan.
• Xie Feng privately offered Mu Tiandao the ancient elephant skull in exchange for ending the bidding, and Mu Tiandao hesitated because it could extend his life by at least two thousand years.

Xie Feng won the auction for a peerless treasure by driving the bid to ten billion Emperor’s Fortune, then paid with a box of one hundred Heaven-Reaching Elephant Heart Pills. The curtain revealed the treasure: a tiny, ancient white skeleton suspended inside a crystal sphere.

• Mu Tiandao withdrew his bid, and Liu Cheng immediately raised the price to one billion Emperor’s Fortune.
• Xie Feng warned Liu Cheng that he would defeat him with a single bid, then offered ten billion Emperor’s Fortune; Liu Cheng could not match it, and the auctioneer awarded Xie Feng the energy source.
• Xie Feng admitted he did not have ten billion Emperor’s Fortune, then produced a jade box containing one hundred Heaven-Reaching Elephant Heart Pills as payment.
• Liu Cheng accused Xie Feng of obtaining the pills through underhanded means, but Feng Luo defended Xie Feng and forced Liu Cheng to sit down.
• The auctioneer invited Xie Feng onto the stage and unveiled the treasure, a white skeleton resting inside a huge crystal sphere.

At the Peak of Heaven’s auction, Xie Feng recognized the remains being sold as those of his eldest senior brother, Feng Xuan, and killed Liu Cheng when he tried to seize them. After Xie Feng and Jin Yue revealed their identities, Xie Feng confronted Feng Yan with the truth about the remains, and Feng Yan’s reaction confirmed his suspicion.

• Xie Feng recognized the skeleton on the golden platform as his eldest senior brother, Kong Qiusu, known in the Fifth Universe as Feng Xuan.
• Ming Dao challenged Xie Feng for the energy source, and Xie Feng denied their agreement and refused to hand it over.
• Liu Cheng and Ming Dao rushed to seize the remains, so Xie Feng unleashed his sword and killed Liu Cheng.
• Xie Feng’s disguise failed, revealing his true face, and Jin Yue also disclosed her identity as Feng Yan and the Peak of Heaven’s forces surrounded them.
• Feng Yan demanded to know why Xie Feng had disguised himself as Lu Xun, and Xie Feng privately asked whether the remains were Feng Xuan’s; Feng Yan’s shocked reaction confirmed his suspicion.

Xie Feng and Jin Yue confronted Feng Yan at the Peak of Heaven, where Jin Yue used her marriage contract to reject him. As the fight erupted, Xie Feng killed Ming King, enraging Feng Yan.

• Xie Feng connected Old Man Pine Gatherer and the remains to the Peak of Heaven, then warned Feng Yan that Jin Yue was under his protection.
• Jin Yue condemned Feng Yan’s coercive pursuit and revealed her marriage contract with Feng Xuan, publicly reminding Feng Yan that he could never surpass him.
• Ming King attacked Jin Yue, and the guests fled while Feng Hao and Feng Luo left the snow palace.
• Xie Feng stored the remains, then used Little Sword and Dragon Elephant Power to kill Ming King and crush his soul.
• Xie Feng felt his strength drain from the powerful technique, and Ming King’s death enraged Feng Yan.

Xie Feng and Jin Yue fought Feng Yan and the Peak of Heaven’s forces, but the arrival of four powerful ancestors threatened to trap them. As Jin Yue urged Xie Feng to retreat, he told Feng Yan that he did not get to decide whether they could leave.

• Feng Yan attacked Xie Feng while Jin Yue held back Qing Yi, the elders, and the Black Robe Legion.
• Xie Feng used Little Sword to destroy Feng Yan’s flaming sword and shatter his giant flaming fist, leveling more than a dozen nearby mountain peaks.
• Xie Feng provoked Feng Yan by suggesting Feng Xuan was still alive, and Feng Yan lost his composure and attacked.
• Jin Yue summoned golden wings, a full moon, and immense waves as pillars of light rose in all four directions, signaling the arrival of the Peak of Heaven’s four ancestors.
• Jin Yue warned Xie Feng that the ancestors were at least God Emperor level and urged him to leave, but Feng Yan blocked their way and Xie Feng defied him.

Xie Feng escaped the Peak of Heaven with Jin Yue after Feng Ning arrived to rescue them. As Feng Ning flew them toward Returning Moon City, the trio was intercepted by Ming Dao and two other members of the Demon-Burying Clan.

• Feng Yan stopped his troops from shooting down the phoenix after realizing Feng Ning was an imperial prince, then cursed at Xie Feng as he escaped.
• Feng Ning revealed his identity to Xie Feng and accepted a jade gourd containing two hundred Heaven-Reaching Elephant Heart Pills as thanks for the rescue.
• Xie Feng admitted to Jin Yue that his claim of powerful backing had been a bluff, while Feng Ning hinted that Xie Feng might have influential connections.
• Feng Ning flew Xie Feng and Jin Yue toward Returning Moon City and explained that he enjoyed guarding gates despite being an imperial prince.
• Ming Dao and two other figures rose from below and blocked their path, prompting Feng Ning to recognize the Demon-Burying Clan.

Ming Dao tried to seize the power-source corpse from Xie Feng, but Xie Feng used his Chaos Physique to destroy Ming Dao’s body and overpower him. Just as Xie Feng moved to finish the fight, a powerful elder from the Demon-Burying Clan intervened.

• Ming Dao blocked Xie Feng, Jin Yue, and Feng Ning and demanded that Xie Feng sell him the corpse, but Xie Feng refused.
• Ming Dao attacked Xie Feng, and Jin Yue repelled his punch and warned him to leave.
• Ming Dao charged again, but Xie Feng’s sword split him in two; black mist restored Ming Dao’s body, and Feng Ning explained that the Demon-Burying Clan was difficult to kill.
• Xie Feng revealed his Chaos Qi and destroyed Ming Dao’s body, while the Chaos Qi killed Ming Dao’s two attendants.
• Xie Feng trapped Ming Dao with his Sword Intent, but a huge palm from a Demon-Burying Clan elder shattered the sky and crushed Xie Feng’s Sword Qi.

Xie Feng vowed to visit the Demon-Burying Clan to collect the land Ming Dao owed him, despite Burial King Yuan Ling's warning, and set off toward the Purple Paths and Red Dust Road with Jin Yue and Feng Ning. Meanwhile, Du Qin arrived at Misty Rain Island, killed Mu Tiandao after he tried to seize its ancient elephant skull, and faced an angry crowd seeking revenge for the island lord and his wife.

• Xie Feng told Burial King Yuan Ling that he would visit the Demon-Burying Clan and collect the promised land, while Yuan Ling warned him to bring more people.
• Jin Yue urged Xie Feng not to go, but he insisted on keeping his word and left with Jin Yue and Feng Ning for the Purple Paths and Red Dust Road.
• At Misty Rain Island, Mu Tiandao learned that Ming Dao had killed the island lord and his wife, then demanded their ancient elephant skull.
• Du Qin appeared with the skull and bound Mu Tiandao with a zither string when he attacked her.
• Du Qin identified herself as a King's Disciple of the Demon-Burying Clan and killed Mu Tiandao, prompting Misty Rain Island's people to charge at her for revenge.

Xie Feng reached the island where his senior brother had spent three years in the Past Like a Dream Mirror and shattered the mirror to awaken him. A black silhouette emerged amid a surge of spiritual fortune, while Jin Yue remained unaware of who was about to appear.

• Du Qin declared that Misty Rain Island belonged to the Demon-Burying Clan and covered it in black smoke that swallowed the island's people.
• Xie Feng, Feng Ning, and Jin Yue traveled across the Heavenly River toward the island, where a giant purple python greeted Xie Feng and offered to guide them.
• The purple python told Xie Feng that it had protected his senior brother from trouble in the Heavenly River for three years.
• On the island, Jin Yue recognized Old Man Pine Gatherer, who revealed that he had been guarding his master beside the Past Like a Dream Mirror.
• Xie Feng unleashed his Chaos Power and shattered the mirror, from which a black silhouette emerged amid a burst of light and spiritual fortune.

Xie Feng restored Kong Qiusu to life, but Kong Qiusu returned as a peak Great Emperor with only partial memories. As the group became lost in the fog, Jin Yue destroyed her marriage contract with him, leaving Kong Qiusu to question whether they had once been engaged.

• Xie Feng reunited Kong Qiusu's soul with his original body, and Kong Qiusu revived with peak Great Emperor cultivation.
• Kong Qiusu failed to recognize Jin Yue, while she explained that their marriage contract had been arranged by their elders and that she would not force a relationship.
• Feng Ning led the group away from the Purple Paths and Red Dust Road, then admitted he had become lost in the fog.
• Kong Qiusu asked Jin Yue whether they had a relationship, and she destroyed their marriage contract, saying she wanted to end their ties.
• Kong Qiusu asked whether the contract she destroyed had been his and hers.

Feng Ning and Xie Feng’s group landed on the Eternity Battlefield, where Feng Ning explained the Emperor Phoenix Clan’s war against the Demon-Burying Clan. After Feng Wen arrived with reinforcements, the group learned why she had reprimanded her warriors for kneeling to Feng Ning.

• Kong Qiusu claimed his memories had returned and reminded Jin Yue that they had once been engaged, prompting her to curse him until she fainted.
• Feng Ning and the others emerged from the fog onto the Eternity Battlefield, where he explained that the Emperor Phoenix Clan defended the Fifth Universe from the Demon-Burying Clan.
• A Demon-Burying Clan force attacked, and Feng Ning transformed into a golden phoenix and devoured its weaker members.
• Kong Qiusu warned Xie Feng not to reveal his Chaos Power, then several hundred Emperor Phoenixes arrived and wiped out the remaining demons.
• Feng Wen emerged from a black-hole vortex, scolded her warriors for kneeling to Feng Ning, and explained that an impostor had once posed as the Phoenix Lord and killed their people.

Feng Wen recognized the supposedly dead Kong Qiusu, who revealed how Feng Yan had attacked him twelve years earlier and forced him to flee as a remnant soul. As Feng Wen and Feng Ning learned the truth behind their hardships and Kong Qiusu’s supposed betrayal, Xie Feng and Old Man Pine Gatherer called for Feng Yan to be confronted.

• Feng Wen greeted Feng Ning and Jin Yue, teased Xie Feng and the masked Kong Qiusu, then recognized Old Man Pine Gatherer, who revealed that he had faked his death.
• Kong Qiusu removed his mask and told Feng Wen he had survived for twelve years as a remnant soul before being restored to life.
• Feng Wen recounted how Kong Qiusu had protected and taught her, and how Feng Yan later suppressed her and drove Feng Ning away from the Peak of Heaven.
• Kong Qiusu explained that Feng Yan had attacked him while he was weak, forcing him to abandon his body and flee the Fifth Universe with little memory.
• Feng Ning revealed that Feng Yan had publicly accused Kong Qiusu of refusing to fight the Demon-Burying Clan, while Kong Qiusu said he had been secluded and knew nothing of the accusation.
• Old Man Pine Gatherer demanded to attack Feng Yan, and Xie Feng insisted that he should handle the matter.

Feng Wen explained the Demon-Burying Clan’s campaign against the Peak of Heaven, and Xie Feng set out to reclaim land from them. He infiltrated their camp, killed a commander with one strike, and confronted the commander-in-chief, who was still trying to assess his power.

• Feng Wen warned that the Demon-Burying Clan’s war faction aimed to destroy the Peak of Heaven and invade the Fifth Universe, then told Xie Feng their camp lay ninety million li to the northwest.
• Kong Qiusu revealed that Xie Feng was his junior sect brother and had found his original body, convincing Feng Wen that Xie Feng was a major figure.
• Feng Wen took Xie Feng and the others toward her camp, while the Demon-Burying Clan’s commanders discussed the defeat of an elite unit and the unfamiliar fighters on the battlefield.
• Xie Feng entered the Demon-Burying Clan’s command tent and identified himself as the man in blue the commanders had been discussing.
• Xie Feng killed the young commander with a single sword strike, and the commander-in-chief recognized his weapon as a Universe Level sword before secretly gathering killing intent.

Xie Feng defeated and sealed the commander-in-chief and the commander, intending to present them to Burial King Yuan Ling. At Feng Wen’s camp, she warned Feng Ning to keep their uncle’s identity secret and offered him the dangerous Nine Luminaries Heaven-Silencing Divine Scripture.

• Xie Feng used Chaos Power to seal the commander-in-chief and the commander as gray stones, then left the camp.
• Feng Ning offered to bring supplies to Feng Wen, who refused and explained why she accepted her difficult position.
• Feng Wen warned Feng Ning not to reveal their uncle’s identity and learned that he had met Grand General Pine Gatherer three years earlier.
• Feng Ning said an expert had awakened his bloodline but that he had never learned a cultivation technique or martial skills.
• Feng Wen offered Feng Ning the Nine Luminaries Heaven-Silencing Divine Scripture and warned that it burned life force and disrupted emotions.