Recaps

Feng Ao defected to Xie Feng, but Xuan Ya killed him before he could reveal who he was colluding with, then attacked Xie Feng and fled after Hong Chen’s power intervened. Meanwhile, Luo Feng destroyed the Blood Ape Sect in revenge for its massacre of his nephew’s family and executed its sect master.

• Feng Ao swore allegiance to Xie Feng and began warning him that Xuan Ya was colluding with someone, but Xuan Ya killed him before he could finish.
• Xuan Ya attacked Xie Feng, whose Dark Ink Fan deflected his sword before Xuan Ya’s fists forced him back and began tearing his body apart.
• Hong Chen’s purple Sword Qi overwhelmed Xuan Ya, who fled after hinting that someone stronger was helping Xie Feng.
• Luo Feng led the Star God Hall’s forces in destroying the Blood Ape Sect because its members had killed his nephew’s family.
• Luo Feng confronted the Blood Ape Sect master, learned that a child had begged for his parents’ lives, and beheaded the sect master.

Luo Feng destroyed the Blood Ape Sect and spared its youngest child only to raise him as a disciple named Luo Xingchou, challenging him to seek revenge within twenty years. He then gave Xie Feng the Qingli Realm, and Xie Feng set out to inspect it with Xie Ling, Gu Yu, and Little Nine.

• Luo Feng killed the Blood Ape Sect master's wife and son after they begged him for mercy.
• Luo Feng discovered the sect master's hidden seven-year-old son, who swore to avenge his family.
• Luo Feng named the boy Luo Xingchou, took him as his disciple, and gave him twenty years to try to kill him.
• Luo Feng told Xie Feng that the Qingli Realm had been reserved for him and that the Star God Hall had left it untouched.
• Xie Feng departed to inspect the Qingli Realm with Xie Ling, Gu Yu, and Little Nine while Yao Cang and Xu Fei stayed behind to pack.

Xie Feng and Xie Ling entered the Qingli Realm through a shifting stone formation and found themselves in a snowy mountain range covered with the remains of past explorers. They encountered ten giants apparently formed from accumulated resentment and began fighting them.

• Gu Yu explained that explorers had vanished or died while investigating the Qingli Realm, then the stone formation activated and separated the group.
• Xie Feng and Xie Ling arrived deep inside a suspended mountain range, while Gu Yu and Little Nine appeared at its entrance.
• Xie Feng and Xie Ling crossed a snowfield filled with corpses whose roots appeared to be draining their energy.
• Xie Ling suggested that accumulated resentment had formed the blue-black giants that confronted them.
• Ten giants charged, and Xie Feng and Xie Ling attacked them with Little Sword and blades of condensed wind and snow.

Xie Feng discovered that Chaos Power could override the blood Qi controlling the mountain guardians, and the ten giants submitted to him and agreed to lead him to the Qingli Realm. Meanwhile, Gu Yu and Little Nine explored the snowy front mountain, where Gu Yu found dried corpses gathered around an ancient tree.

• Xie Feng and Xie Ling fought giants that regenerated severed limbs and kept attacking without tiring.
• Xie Feng realized the blood Qi was controlling the giants and used Chaos Power to make them put down their weapons.
• Xie Feng left Chaos Power in the giants’ minds, and they knelt and called him the master of the mountains.
• The giants confirmed they knew the Qingli Realm, and Xie Feng ordered them to lead him and Xie Ling there.
• Gu Yu asked Little Nine to scout a dark forest, but entered it himself after Little Nine failed to return.
• Gu Yu stumbled against an ancient tree and found dried corpses around its roots, which were absorbing their power; Little Nine then appeared beside him.

Gu Yu and Little Nine encountered a blood-red shadow devouring the souls of the dead, and the shadow overpowered Little Nine before attacking Gu Yu. Gu Yu fought back by biting and draining the shadow’s blood, leaving it nearly dead while he continued to cling on.

• Gu Yu and Little Nine investigated cracking sounds and found a blood-red shadow consuming the souls of fresh corpses.
• Little Nine attacked the shadow with fireballs, but it swallowed them and knocked him aside.
• The shadow told Gu Yu it had guarded Heavenly Emperor Qing-Qingli and had survived by absorbing the blood and souls of the dead.
• The shadow caught Gu Yu and began draining his blood despite his desperate efforts to escape.
• Gu Yu bit the shadow and absorbed its blood and energy, weakening it until it was nearly dead, but he refused to let go.

After absorbing the blood-colored shadow, Gu Yu transformed and suffered a desperate craving for blood until Little Nine sacrificed one of his heads to save him. Gu Yu recovered with new abilities and red hair, while Little Nine regenerated his head, leaving the two closer than before.

• Gu Yu absorbed the blood-colored shadow's blood, turned pale with scarlet hair, and collapsed as the clashing blood left him desperate for fresh blood.
• Little Nine returned and, seeing Gu Yu delirious, severed one of his own heads and gave it to him to drink.
• Little Nine's blood helped Gu Yu suppress the shadow's blood, and Gu Yu gained the ability to drain others' energy and become undying for ten years after draining them.
• Gu Yu woke holding Little Nine's severed head and feared he had killed him, but Little Nine explained that he had sacrificed it to save him.
• Little Nine grew a new head, and Gu Yu promised to treat him well; the two emerged from the ordeal closer than before.

Xie Feng and Xie Ling crossed the Azure Bridge into the Qingli Realm, where Xie Feng broke through to Peak Ancient God under the Heavenly Emperor’s pressure. They explored the deserted city and discovered a Cloud Observation Mirror monitoring the realm, including its front and rear mountains.

• Gu Yu set off across the snowfields with Little Nine riding on his head to find his master.
• Xie Feng and Xie Ling reached the Azure Bridge, and Xie Feng endured Heavenly Emperor Qingli’s pressure as he crossed.
• Xie Feng broke through to Peak Ancient God, used his Chaos Power to protect himself, and completed the crossing.
• Xie Ling crossed the bridge with Big Yellow’s help, while the ten giants remained behind to guard the snowfields.
• Xie Feng and Xie Ling reached the deserted Qingli Realm, and Xie Ling cleansed the city with rain.
• Xie Feng and Xie Ling explored the city’s main hall, Literary Dao Tower, and waterside pavilion, where Xie Feng found a Cloud Observation Mirror monitoring the realm.

After Xie Feng secured the Qingli Realm, he sent Gu Yu and Little Nine to move the Jade Pivot Sect while Xie Ling left for the Tenth Universe to seek a speed master. When Xie Feng learned that Ancestor Jianghe might have been Hong Chen’s wife’s disciple, he hurried to the Star God Hall, where Luo Feng was paying respects at her grave.

• Gu Yu reunited with Xie Feng and Xie Ling, explained how he defeated the blood-colored shadow, and revealed the new abilities he had gained.
• Xie Feng sent Gu Yu and Little Nine to move the Jade Pivot Sect into the Qingli Realm, then planned to cultivate his speed.
• Xie Ling said she knew a speed specialist in the Tenth Universe and left to find him.
• The Eastern Star Emperor arrived with gifts from his master and told Xie Feng that Luo Feng was attending Ancestor Jianghe’s death anniversary.
• Hong Chen said Ancestor Jianghe might have been his wife’s youngest disciple, so Xie Feng rushed to the Star God Hall’s Parasol Tree Grove, where Luo Feng stood at her grave.

Luo Feng honored Ancestor Jianghe and Xiao Yue before Xie Feng helped Hong Chen reunite with his wife and absorbed Emperor Rainbow, advancing to Advanced Saint Ancestor. Meanwhile, Xie Ling traveled to the Tenth Universe to meet Xie Yun and discuss an important matter.

• Luo Feng paid tribute to Ancestor Jianghe and Xiao Yue at their graves.
• Xie Feng placed the purple stone beside Xiao Yue's tomb and let Hong Chen speak with his wife before Hong Chen departed to reunite with her.
• The purple stone transformed into a golden stone, and Xie Feng absorbed Emperor Rainbow, breaking through to Advanced Saint Ancestor.
• Xie Feng resolved to reach Great Emperor and investigate what had happened to his parents in the Tenth Universe.
• Xie Ling traveled to Mist-Lost Mountain and reunited with Xie Yun, then told him she had come about something important.

Xie Ling asked Xie Yun to help Xie Feng study speed techniques, then learned that Xie Yun had taken Kong Qiusu as his Literary Dao master. Xie Yun confessed his love for Xie Ling, but she rejected him and claimed she already loved someone before Kong Qiusu arrived.

• Xie Ling asked Xie Yun to help her friend Xie Feng study the Dao of Speed, and Xie Yun agreed to wait for his teacher first.
• Xie Yun told Xie Ling that Kong Qiusu was his new Literary Dao master, surprising her.
• Xie Yun confessed that he had loved Xie Ling for years and revealed that he was not born into the Chaos Lineage.
• Xie Ling told Xie Yun she saw him only as a brother and friend, then claimed she already had someone in her heart.
• Xie Ling and Xie Yun went outside to wait for Kong Qiusu, who arrived and teased Xie Ling about her sharp tongue.

Gu Yu and Little Nine encountered Xuan Ya on the way to the Jade Pivot Sect and fought off his ambush. Little Nine battled Xuan Ya while Gu Yu killed the two assassins, but Xuan Ya then threatened to use his flames against Gu Yu’s heart.

• Xie Yun, Xie Ling, and Kong Qiusu returned to the Sixth Universe to meet Xie Ling’s friend, Xie Feng, who was Kong Qiusu’s junior brother.
• Gu Yu and Little Nine traveled through the Fifth Universe toward the Jade Pivot Sect while bickering over Little Nine’s past rescue of Gu Yu.
• Xuan Ya appeared and ordered two Nether Soul Hall assassins to attack Gu Yu while he fought Little Nine.
• Gu Yu killed both assassins with the Emperor Beginning Sword, while Little Nine shrank and bit a chunk of flesh from Xuan Ya’s arm.
• Xuan Ya filled the area with flames and pointed them at Gu Yu, threatening to attack his heart.

Ren Yanyu and Qing Yi joined Gu Yu and Little Nine to defeat Xuan Ya, but Qing Yi sacrificed himself, and Ren Yanyu gained the Nether Devil Bloodline and advanced to early Ancient God. Ren Yanyu brought Gu Yu and Little Nine to the Jade Pivot Sect, where Princess Zilong and Chen An were waiting to join their journey to the Sixth Universe.

• Ren Yanyu arrived in a sweeping snowstorm and extinguished Xuan Ya’s flames, then transformed into a white phoenix to fight him.
• Qing Yi and Little Nine joined Ren Yanyu in battle, and Ren Yanyu ultimately killed and swallowed Xuan Ya as the fight’s light pierced the black clouds.
• Ren Yanyu told Gu Yu that Qing Yi had become part of her blood and that swallowing Xuan Ya had given her the Nether Devil Bloodline; her cultivation rose from peak Divine Saint to early Ancient God.
• Ren Yanyu explained that Feng Ning and Feng Luo had left the Jade Pivot Sect to live in seclusion, while Princess Zilong and Chen An were waiting there to travel to the Sixth Universe.
• Ren Yanyu led Gu Yu and Little Nine to the Jade Pivot Sect.

Gu Yu arrived at Xuanji Sect and prepared to move the mountain, while Xie Feng began learning speed and movement techniques from Xie Yun. The lesson ended with Xie Feng challenging Xie Yun’s claim that he had chosen the wrong phantom.

• Gu Yu reunited with Princess Zilong and Chen An, then invited Chen An to move Ziyun Bank to the Sixth Universe, but Chen An chose to stay and watch over the bank.
• Xie Ling brought Xie Yun to meet Xie Feng, who greeted him warmly and asked him to teach speed and movement techniques.
• Xie Ling and Kong Qiusu declined to join the lesson, so Xie Feng and Xie Yun went to a nearby forest to practice.
• Xie Yun explained that training speed and movement began with eyesight, then created phantoms of himself and challenged Xie Feng to find his real body within a hundred steps.
• Xie Feng threw water balls at two phantoms, and Xie Yun said he had picked wrong and exceeded the hundred steps; Xie Feng asked how many steps Xie Yun had taken when he threw them.

Xie Feng trained with Xie Yun to identify his real body among phantoms, quickly surpassing the speed techniques Xie Yun had spent years mastering. Xie Yun then began teaching him footwork.

• Xie Feng reviewed Xie Yun’s movements and asked him to continue the training at a higher difficulty.
• Xie Yun praised Xie Feng’s achievements and innate aptitude, then revealed that he and Xie Ling were childhood sweethearts; Xie Feng said he viewed her as an older sister and was married.
• Xie Feng located Xie Yun’s real body within ten steps, astonishing his teacher.
• Xie Feng found Xie Yun’s real body in a single step, matching a technique Xie Yun had practiced for seven years.
• Xie Yun began teaching Xie Feng footwork with the mnemonic, “steps like phantoms bewilder others; body like air, the soul flies ahead.”

Xie Feng gained insight into using the wind and other surroundings to improve his speed during Xie Yun’s training. Meanwhile, Xie Ling tried to reconcile with Kong Qiusu, then began acupuncture on him and repeatedly drew blood by mistake.

• Xie Yun outran Xie Feng during a half-minute speed exercise and urged him to understand the lessons for himself.
• Xie Feng watched falling leaves and realized he could use the wind, clouds, air, earth, and other things to enhance his speed.
• Xie Ling apologized to Kong Qiusu for their past exchange, and Kong Qiusu said he had not considered it a feud.
• Kong Qiusu offered to pay Xie Ling to cook, and she instead demanded that he let her practice acupuncture on him.
• Xie Ling told Kong Qiusu that Xie Feng praised her medical skills, then repeatedly pricked him and drew blood each time.

Xie Ling stopped needling Kong Qiusu and took him to Lingnan City for an expensive meal, while Xie Feng and Xie Yun trained and exchanged techniques. After Xie Feng taught Xie Yun the Qilin King's Heaven-Obscuring Palm, Xie Yun discovered that it contained Chaos Power and questioned Xie Feng about it.

• Xie Ling applied medicine to Kong Qiusu's needle marks, and they left the Qingli Realm to find expensive food in Lingnan City.
• Xie Feng practiced his speed movement art with Xie Yun and improved enough to keep ahead of him for a minute.
• Xie Yun taught Xie Feng Heart Refining before saying he had to return to Mist-Lost Mountain to meet Xie Tu.
• Xie Feng taught Xie Yun the Qilin King's Heaven-Obscuring Palm in return for learning the speed movement art.
• Xie Yun used the palm technique and sensed Chaos Power within it, and Xie Feng said a long-lived senior had passed it to him years earlier.

The Jade Pivot Sect arrived in the Qingli Realm, where Xie Feng welcomed Gu Yu, Ren Yanyu, and the others and helped settle the sect on the front mountain. After reassuring Ren Yanyu about the Nether Devil power she had absorbed, Xie Feng saw Xie Yun off as he returned to the Tenth Universe.

• Xie Yun mastered the Qilin King's Heaven-Obscuring Palm and thanked Xie Feng for teaching him.
• The Jade Pivot Sect descended through a vortex into the Qingli Realm, and Gu Yu reunited with Xie Feng.
• Xie Feng assigned ten giants to carry the Jade Pivot Sect to the front mountain and guard it there.
• Ren Yanyu told Xie Feng she had absorbed Xuan Ya and feared losing control of the Nether Devil power, so Xie Feng promised to give her a mental cultivation art.
• The group celebrated the sect's arrival, and Xie Ling accompanied Xie Yun to the front mountain as he prepared to return to the Tenth Universe.

Xie Ling revealed that Xie Feng was the son of Xie Xuanyuan and Mu Yueheng, and Xie Yun promised to keep his identity secret. After Xie Yun left the Qingli Realm, Xie Han confronted him at the Gate of the Vast Expanse and revealed that he knew where Xie Yun had been.

• Xie Yun questioned Xie Ling about the Jade Pivot Sect and connected it to Mu Bingxing, the Qilin King's Heaven-Obscuring Palm, and Xie Feng's Chaos Bloodline.
• Xie Ling told Xie Yun that Xie Feng was the child of their late uncle and aunt, Xie Xuanyuan and Mu Yueheng, and that Mu Bingxing was his master.
• Xie Yun swore to keep Xie Feng's identity secret, and Xie Ling warned him not to let Xie Han learn of it or harm her younger brother.
• Xie Yun left the Qingli Realm and reached the Gate of the Vast Expanse, where Xie Han confronted him.
• Xie Han said he had seen Xie Yun's movements and identified the Qingli Realm as the place he had visited.

Xie Han tried to recruit Xie Yun as a spy against Xie Feng, offering to arrange a match with Xie Ling and ordering him to target Gu Yu with help from the Nether Soul Hall. Xie Yun pretended to agree, then escaped to Mist-Lost Mountain and left Xie Han trapped outside.

• Xie Han confronted Xie Yun about visiting the Qingli Realm and urged him to side with the family head against Xie Feng.
• Xie Han asked Xie Yun to infiltrate Xie Feng's group and report information, promising to arrange a match between him and Xie Ling.
• Xie Han told Xie Yun to kill Xie Feng, then changed the target to Gu Yu and offered the Nether Soul Hall's assistance.
• Xie Yun pretended to accept the assignment, entered the Gate of the Vast Expanse, and claimed he needed to retrieve his weapon at home.
• Xie Yun reached Mist-Lost Mountain, thanked Xie Han for escorting him, and vanished into the mist, leaving Xie Han blocked by an invisible wall.

Xie Yun returned to Mist-Lost Mountain and warned Xie Ling and Xie Feng that Xie Han backed the Nether Soul Hall. Meanwhile, its new hall master, Bai Xiao, discovered Xie Han’s letters to Xuan Ya and contacted him, seeking a way to avenge Xuan Ya and Feng Ao.

• Xie Han left after threatening Xie Yun, who had hidden behind an invisible barrier and overheard him.
• Xie Yun warned Xie Ling that Xie Han had tried to recruit him against Xie Feng and Gu Yu, and revealed that Xie Han backed the Nether Soul Hall.
• Xie Ling and Xie Feng confirmed that Xuan Ya had once tried to assassinate Xie Feng and had died at Little Nine and Yanyu’s hands.
• Bai Xiao took over as Nether Soul Hall master, read letters between Xuan Ya and Xie Han, and used a purple incense stick to contact Xie Han.
• Bai Xiao told Xie Han she wanted to avenge Xuan Ya and Feng Ao, so he gave her the Ten Thousand Demon Asura Art and warned that it would turn her into a battle-crazed demon during combat.

Xie Ling returned to the Land of Chaos after Xie Han summoned her with three Chaos Orders, fearing that her younger brother Xie Mu had been discovered impersonating her. She reached Immortal Cloud Island and found Xie Mu unharmed in the hall with Xie Han and others, while Kong Qiusu followed her from the Jade Pivot Sect.

• Bai Xiao thanked Xie Han for granting her a cultivation technique and declared that she revered devils.
• Xie Ling met Xie Xiang in the bamboo forest, where he told her Xie Han had summoned her because she had been absent for over half a year.
• Xie Xiang revealed that Xie Mu was on Immortal Cloud Island and might be in trouble, so Xie Ling agreed to return and demanded that Xie Han leave her brother alone.
• Xie Ling left without telling Xie Feng, and Kong Qiusu put away his book and followed her.
• Xie Ling and Xie Xiang traveled through the Gate of the Vast Expanse to Immortal Cloud Island, where Xie Ling found Xie Mu standing safely in the main hall.

Xie Ling confronted Elder Xie Han over her absence from the Lineage and rejected his accusations that she had abandoned her duties. After Xie Han used mistakes in the branch Lineage’s records to push for Xie Xiang to replace her, Xie Ling vowed to correct them within ten days or surrender her position.

• Xie Ling arrived and challenged Xie Han and Xie Xu over their treatment of Xie Mu.
• Xie Han interrogated Xie Ling about where she had gone, but she insisted she had traveled to broaden her horizons and realized he was bluffing about Xie Mu revealing her destination.
• Xie Han presented a pile of errors in the branch Lineage’s records and blamed Xie Ling’s absence and Xie Mu’s work for the problems.
• Xie Han named Xie Xiang as the capable candidate to replace Xie Ling, while Xie Xiang privately celebrated his chance to take the position.
• Xie Ling gathered the documents and promised to correct every mistake within ten days or let the elders remove her from her post.

Xie Han warned Xie Ling to stay away from Xie Feng and reminded her that her position was the only way to help their imprisoned father, leaving her shaken and furious. Back at the Jade Palace, Xie Mu tried to comfort her, guessed that Xie Han had invoked their father, and blamed himself for being unable to help.

• Xie Han warned Xie Ling against contacting Xie Feng and reminded her that losing her position could doom their father, who was imprisoned in the Demon-Suppressing Tower.
• Xie Ling fled in distress, and Xie Mu grabbed Xie Han by the collar until Xie Luo pulled them apart and sent Xie Mu back to Rin City.
• Xie Luo accused Xie Han of taking credit for words Xie Yuan had spoken, then left the hall after trading insults with him.
• At the Jade Palace, Xie Ling nearly struck the table and smashed a teapot, but Xie Mu stopped her by pointing out their high prices.
• Xie Mu guessed that Xie Han had upset Xie Ling by mentioning their father and apologized for being unable to help him.

Xie Ling told Xie Mu that Xie Feng was Xie Xuanyuan and Mu Yueheng’s child and warned him that Xie Han’s faction might target him. Xie Xiang then surrounded Rin City with the Immortal Cloud Army and confined the siblings to the Jade Palace, leaving Xie Ling asking where Grand Elder Xie Junjiao was.

• Xie Ling reassured Xie Mu that he had fulfilled their father’s wish by living peacefully and urged him to return to his island.
• Xie Mu told Xie Ling that Xie Yun had revealed she left Rin City and the Tenth Universe for Xie Feng, and offered to take her place.
• Xie Ling confirmed Xie Feng was Xie Xuanyuan and Mu Yueheng’s child and warned that Xie Han and the family head might harm him because he was Heavenly Emperor Mu’s disciple.
• Xie Ling told Xie Mu to leave the Land of Chaos, but Xie Xiang arrived with the Immortal Cloud Army, which had surrounded the Jade Palace and Rin City.
• Xie Xiang said Xie Han had ordered them to keep Xie Ling and Xie Mu inside the Jade Palace while the family head was away.
• Xie Ling asked where Grand Elder Xie Junjiao was after learning Xie Yuan was stationed in distant North Wilderness City.

Xie Ling restrained herself after Xie Xiang threatened her father, while Xie Xiang ordered General Ming to deal with Xie Yunhao in the Demon-Suppressing Tower. In the Qingli Realm, Xie Feng searched for Xie Ling and Kong Qiusu and discovered that someone had deliberately obscured the Cloud Observation Mirror.

• Xie Xiang stopped Xie Ling from attacking him by reminding her that her father, Xie Yunhao, was imprisoned in the Demon-Suppressing Tower, and he confined Xie Ling and Xie Mu to Rin City for a month.
• After leaving the Jade Palace, Xie Xiang ordered General Ming to ensure Xie Yunhao would not be seen again, while blaming Xie Ling for secretly seeking Xie Han.
• Kong Qiusu watched the confrontation with a Divine Mechanism Mirror, judged the siblings safe for now, and entered the Demon-Suppressing Tower.
• At dinner in the Jade Pivot Sect, Gu Yu noticed that Xie Ling and Kong Qiusu were missing, so Xie Feng went to search for them.
• Xie Feng found neither person at the snowfield or bamboo grove and discovered that the Cloud Observation Mirror had blurred as soon as Xie Ling entered the grove.